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Plane Crash Memorial – Accident Report. November 14, 1970 …. Remembered. Click here for official NTSB Accident Report. Southern Airlines Flight 932 left Kinston, North Carolina, at 6:38 p.m., carrying the Marshall University football team, coaching staff and fans to Huntington, West Virginia.
Charles Kautz, MU A/D and coaches, 1970 MU football team, b&w. Charles Kautz is third from right, with tie. Rick Tolley is behind him. Frank Loria is third from left. All three were killed in the plane crash. 75 members, coaches, and fans were killed in November 1970 plane 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 · Directly following the game, on the return flight to West Virginia, tragedy befell the Marshall team as their plane crashed while attempting to land at the airport. The Marshall University Thundering Herd football team had lost a hard-fought game against the East Carolina University Pirates by a score of 17-14.
Nov 14, 2020 · By JOHN RABY. Updated 2:34 PM PDT, November 14, 2020. HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Marshall University 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.
Nov 14, 2023 · November 14, 2023. Craig T. Greenlee at Marshall Football Media Day, 1969. Each year on Nov. 14, the victims of the Marshall University plane crash are remembered. Hundreds of people gather around the Memorial Fountain on campus to pause and reflect while the water is silenced and the names of all 75 are read aloud.
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...
