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- Fed up with bus travel in the bitter Midwest cold that left the performers sick, and in some cases, plagued by frostbite due to a lack of heat on the bus, Holly decided to charter a plane to Fargo, North Dakota following a performance in Clear Lake, Iowa.
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Mar 4, 2015 · Holly booked the four-seat aircraft to fly to Fargo, North Dakota, where he planned to finally do laundry and rest in advance of the group’s next concert in nearby Moorhead, Minnesota. Country...
After performing at Clear Lake, a small plane was chartered to fly from nearby Mason City Airport in Iowa to Hector Airport in North Dakota. This was close to the next concert venue...
Feb 24, 2017 · Carroll Anderson, the manager of the Surf Ballroom, accepted and booked the show for the night. In the meantime, Holly was frustrated by the conditions in the tour bus and decided to get himself a charter flight to Fargo, North Dakota, after the Surf Ballroom show.
Holly chartered a plane to fly himself and his band to Fargo, North Dakota, which is adjacent to Moorhead. The rest of the party would have picked him up in Moorhead, saving him the journey in the bus and leaving him time to get some rest.
Jan 24, 2019 · The plane was to take three members of the tour to Fargo, North Dakota, a neighboring city to Moorhead. Valens and Holly guitarist Tommy Allsup flipped a coin for a spot on the plane.
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Feb 23, 2019 · A chartered flight from Clear Lake, IA to Fargo, ND crashed on February 3, 1959, killing musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson.
Feb 3, 2016 · By this time, Holly had enough of the freezing, unreliable tour bus and decided to hire a plane from a local flying service to take him to the next gig in Moorhead, Minnesota, to avoid...
