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It was just another night on the way to just another show for Lynyrd Skynyrd, a band recognized as one of Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Bands of All Time. As the plane prepared to land in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, it became clear that tragedy was about to strike- and that tragedy would send shockwaves throughout the aviation and music worlds. In this month's layover episode of Take to the Sky: the Air Disaster Podcast, Stephanie shares what went wrong and what was learned through Lynyrd Skynyrd's journey of climbing, collapsing, and rising again.Sources consulted for this story:
- NTSB: Official Accident Report
- Check-Six: The Crew and Passenger Manifest of the Final Flight of N55VM
- Rolling Stone: Remembering Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Deadly 1977 Plane Crash
- Artimus Pyle Band: Why Artimus Pyle Isn’t Part of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Farewell Tour
- Check-Six: The 'Lynyrd Skynyrd' Crash
- Rolling Stone: Lynyrd Skynyrd’s New ‘If I Leave Here Tomorrow’ Doc: 10 Things We Learned
- The Register Guard: Rock Band Leader, 5 Others Killed in Charter Plane Crash
- Clarion Ledger: The night Lynyrd Skynyrd fell from the sky
- NBC News: Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash was 35 years ago
- Yahoo: The legacy of Lynyrd Skynyrd, 40 years after plane crash tragedy
- WPTV: 45 years after Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash, tragedy still fresh for survivor
- UPI: Lynyrd Skynyrd concert 14 years late
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Lynyrd Skynyrd
Credits:
Written and produced by: Shelly Price and Stephanie HubkaDirected and engineered at: Snow Monster Studios
Sound editor: Podcast Engineers
Producer: Adam Hubka
Music by: Mike Dunn
The plane's wreckage at the crash site. Source: Fox 8 Live
Side-by-side views of the released album cover and the revised album cover. Source: Rolling Stone
Ronnie Van Zant and Steve Gaines performing in 1977. Source: Yahoo
