The group have continued on in various lineups ever since. The tragic crash and its aftermath derailed Lynyrd Skynyrd's career for a decade, but the band reunited in 1987, with Ronnie Van Zant's younger brother Johnny joining Gary Rossington, Billy Powell, Leon Wilkeson, Pyle and guitarist Ed King - who had left the band two years before the crash - as their new lead singer. The original cover for Street Survivors depicted the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd engulfed in flames, and MCA subsequently recalled it out of respect for those who had died and their families. Drummer Artimus Pyle and two crew members managed to crawl from the wreckage of the aircraft and hiked through the woods until they waved down a local farmer, who sent for help. The other band members and members of the road crew suffered devastating injuries. Skynyrd lead singer Ronnie Van Zant died on impact, along with guitarist Steve Gaines, vocalist Cassie Gaines, assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary and co-pilot William Gray. The pilots tried to land on a small airstrip, but the bottom of the airplane clipped some trees, and the aircraft went down in a remote wooded area. Please enable JavaScript if you would like to comment on this blog.Lynyrd Skynyrd were flying from Greenville, S.C., to Baton Rouge, La., on tour when their plane reportedly ran out of fuel toward the end of the flight. "We want vectors to McComb poste-haste please, sir."Īpproximately 13 minutes later, however, the plane crashed just outside of Gillsburg, Mississippi. A plane crashed after taking off, and in the accident died, in addition to the pilot, three prominent musicians to a greater and lesser. "We're low on fuel and we're just about out of it," the pilot told Houston Center at approximately 6:42 pm. The phrase the day the music died, a phrase taken from the song American Pie by Don McLean, refers to the tragic plane crash that occurred on February 3, 1959, in Clear Lake, Iowa (United States). The plane's crew, whom the National Transportation Safety Board would hold responsible for the mishap in the accident report issued eight months later, radioed Houston air-traffic control as the plane lost altitude, asking for directions to the nearest airfield. Three days later, however, tragedy struck the group when their chartered plane began to run out of fuel at 6,000 feet en route to Baton Rouge.
On October 17, 1977, Lynyrd Skynyrd - now in a lineup that included backup singer Cassie Gaines and her guitarist brother, Steve - released their fifth studio album, Street Survivors, which would eventually be certified double-platinum. Their follow-up album, Second Helping (1974), included the even bigger hit "Sweet Home Alabama," and it secured the band's status as giants of the southern rock subgenre. The newly renamed band scored a major hit with their hard-driving debut album (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd) (1973), which featured one of the most familiar and joked-about rock anthems of all time, "Free Bird." Under that name and several others, the group developed its chops playing local and regional gigs throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, then finally broke out nationally in 1973 following the adoption of the name "Lynyrd Skynyrd" in honor of a high school gym teacher/nemesis, Leonard Skinner. The original core of Lynyrd Skynyrd - Ronnie Van Zant, Bob Burns, Gary Rossington, Allen Collins and Larry Junstrom - first came together as Jacksonville, Florida teenagers under the name "My Backyard" in 1964. The crash killed band-members Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines, as well as the band's assistant road manager and the plane's pilot and co-pilot. The aircraft in question was instead chartered by the band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, who were just setting out that autumn on a national tour that promised to be their biggest to date.ĭuring a flight from Greenville, South Carolina to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Lynyrd Skynyrd's tour plane crashed in a heavily wooded area of southeastern Mississippi during a failed emergency landing attempt. In the summer of 1977, members of the rock band, Aerosmith, inspected an airplane they were considering chartering for their upcoming tour - a Convair CV-240 operated out of Addison, Texas.Ĭoncerns over the flight crew led Aerosmith to look elsewhere - a decision that saved one band but doomed another. 20, 1977, when a plane carrying the band and their entourage crashed in Mississippi. On this day in 1977 - 44 years ago - three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd died in a plane crash. Lynyrd Skynyrd endured one of the worst tragedies in music history on Oct.
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