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dannyfisher 79M
144 posts
2/2/2020 2:50 pm
THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED


AROUND 1 30 AM TUESDAY FEB 3RD 1959. BUDDY HOLLE, RITCHIE VALEN, THE BIG BOPPER ALONG WITH THEIR PILOT ROER PETERSON. TOO OFF FROM MASON CITY IOWA AIR PORT. SOME 5 MILES LATER THE PLANE CRASHED KILLING ALL ABOARD .

MANY MANY HAVE OFFERED GUESS THEORISS AS TO THE REASON CRASHED.

ADVANCES IN FLIGHT DATA HAS PRETTY MUCH COME TOT EH CONCLUSION THAT. THE WEATHER WAS UNFLYABLE . VISIBILITY WAS LESS THAN ONE MILE,. WITH SNOW FALLING AND INCREASING. THE PILOT WAS NOT TRAINED ON INSTRUMENTS . THE GYRO HE3 WAS USED TO HAVING IN OTHER PLANESS WAS NOT ON HE PLANE THAT CRASHED. MORE OR LESS. WHAT HE SAW WAS REVERE OF WHAT ACTUALLY TRUE. HIS FIGHT PLAN WAS TO TURN NORTH TOWARD FARGO ND. INSTEAD HE FLW SOUTH AND IN TO THE GROUND.

AGAIN WEA WAS NOT GOOD. THAT PLANE SHOULD NEVER BEE ALLOWED TO FLY.
MUCH THE SAME AS THE HELP THAT TOOK THE LIVES OF KOBE BRYANT, HUIS AND 7 OTHERS.

THE PLANE CRASH ON FEB 3 195P TOOK TEH LIVES OF WHAT WOULD HAVE BECOME THE MAINTAYS OF MUSIC. ALLTHRE WERE VERY TALENTED AN EXCPET FOLR THE BIG BOPPER. THEIR CAREERS WERE JUST STARTING.

VALEN WASS 17 , HOLLEY 22. ONE CAN ON IMAGINE WHAT EACH WOULD HAVE CONTRIBUTEED TO MUSICC..

EDDIE COCHRAN WROTE AND RECORDED A TRIBUTE SONG

" 3 STARS"

RIP GENTLEMAN. YOUR MUSIC WILL NEEVR DIE.

MAY GOD BLES EACH OF YOU

dannyfisher 79M

2/2/2020 2:54 pm


MrsJoe 76F
17396 posts
2/2/2020 3:21 pm

I remember the event, but I wasn't into the music of the times then. Later, I remember the songs of tribute. Now, their music is part of the era and still played.


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