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The memorial plaque reads: On Nov. 14, 1970, 75 people died in the worst sports-related air tragedy in U.S. history, when a Southern Airways DC-9 crashed into a hillside nearby. The victims included 37 Marshall University football players, 9 coaches and administrators, 25 fans and air crew of 5.
Nov 16, 2009 · On November 14, 1970, a chartered jet carrying most of the Marshall University football team clips a stand of trees and crashes into a hillside just two miles from the Tri-State Airport in...
Dec 6, 2023 · On Nov. 14, 1970, the Marshall team’s plane crashed nose-first into a hillside just one mile from the Huntington Tri-State Airport, setting the whole area ablaze. All 75 people on board were killed in what the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) called an “unsurvivable” crash.
On a rainy hill side in Wayne County, West Virginia, the lives of 75 people were lost in the worst single air tragedy in NCAA sports history. Among the losses were nearly the entire Marshall University football team, coaches, flight crew, numerous fans, and supporters.
Nov 14, 2020 · Slezak, who lived in Passaic, New Jersey, at the time, could have been on the plane that, on Nov. 14, 1970, crashed and took the lives of 75 passengers – including 44 Marshall University...
Nov 14, 2020 · Marshall University has commemorated the 50th anniversary of one of the worst sports disasters in U.S. history Saturday, a plane crash that killed most of the football team.
Allen Gene Skeens, #59, 1970 MU Football team, b&w. Skeens was killed in the plane crash. He was the center. 75 members, coaches, and fans were killed in November 1970 plane crash. His body was not identified and he is buried with five other unidentified players in the Springhill Cemetery.
The weather conditions were poor, mist and light rain with broken clouds at 500 feet. The plane descended below the Minimum Descent Altitude, striking trees on a hillside about one mile from the runway. The plane then crashed and burned.
Nov 14, 2020 · On Nov. 14, 1970, a chartered Southern Airlines plane transporting the players, coaches, spouses, boosters and officials from a game at East Carolina crashed and burned into a wet, foggy...
Nov 11, 2020 · Jack Lengyel became the football coach at Marshall University four months after the Nov. 14, 1970, plane crash that killed all 75 members of the football team’s traveling party.
