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American pop singer Ricky Nelson died during the crash-landing of his band’s aircraft on December 31, 1985. The plane, a Douglas DC-3, was brought down mid-flight outside De Kalb, Texas, by a fire that rapidly spread from a suspected faulty in-cabin heater.
Nov 16, 2009 · Former teen idol Rick Nelson dies in plane crash in De Kalb, Texas, on December 31, 1985. When the teenage Ricky Nelson launched his pop career in 1957 by picking up a guitar and singing at...
Jan 1, 1986 · Mr. Nelson, 45 years old, and the other victims were flying to Dallas aboard Mr. Nelson's plane for a New Year's Eve concert at the Park Suite Hotel in Dallas. The plane crashed in a wooded...
He continued to perform live and take small television roles through the 1970s, though his label dropped him by the end of the decade. He released two more albums, with unimpressive results, before his death in a plane crash on New Year's Eve, 1985.
Jan 1, 1986 · Rick Nelson, who grew up in millions of American living rooms on his parents' "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" television show and then became a teen-age rock 'n' roll idol, was killed...
May 29, 1987 · The airplane crash that killed singer Rick Nelson and six others was caused by a fire that started in the cabin but apparently was not ignited by passengers using drugs, National Transportation...
May 28, 1987 · Federal investigators concluded today the 1985 New Year Eve plane crash that killed singer Rick Nelson and six other people was caused by a fire around a heater--not by free-basing of cocaine.
Jan 3, 1986 · A smoke-filled plane carrying Ricky Nelson, his fiancee and five band members made a good landing in an East Texas pasture, then burned, officials said tonight.
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Jan 17, 1986 · Nelson, his fiancee, Helen Blair, and five members of Nelson's band were killed Dec. 31 when their private plane caught fire and crashed in DeKalb, Texas on the way to a New Year's Eve concert in...
On December 31, 1985, Ricky Nelson and his band died when his private plane crash landed in a field outside DeKalb, Texas. In 1987, Ricky was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by John Fogerty.
