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Wichita State Football Team Plane Crash 1970
Copyright © Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and KPTS
Black & Gold: Remembering The WSU Plane Crash
On October 2, 1970, two charter planes carrying the Wichita State University football team left Denver heading for Logan, Utah. One plane deviated from the charted course and crashed into the side of a mountain. This powerful documentary recounts the story of the tragedy that forever altered the Wichita community, and the subsequent journey of healing almost 40 years later.
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  • @Avoid_The_Clap-Jimmy_Dugan
    @Avoid_The_Clap-Jimmy_Dugan 5 годин тому

    What’s w Wichita and plane crashes ?

  • @jentleil2183
    @jentleil2183 18 днів тому

    Very easy to solve what happened here, a thing called "hot dogging" or "showing off" by the pilots. Had the pilots just done the job of getting the team safely to their destination, the crash would not have happened

  • @djdudjiddj7490
    @djdudjiddj7490 24 дні тому

    I watched this wen i was sick this messed me up

  • @EurovisioneditsJoostshouldofwo
    @EurovisioneditsJoostshouldofwo Місяць тому

    I thought the 1986 was the only crash

  • @Grayproductionscfb
    @Grayproductionscfb Місяць тому

    I live in Wichita Kansas and if my #1 dream don’t work I will rebuild this football program

  • @25304Aeagleforce
    @25304Aeagleforce Місяць тому

    Is marshall the only school that laost a team in a plane crash in 1970

  • @robertpolnicky7702
    @robertpolnicky7702 4 місяці тому

    I heard the plane was overloaded. They couldnt gain enough altitude over the mountains. Thise charter flights seemed to have a super high crah rate. With blatantly obvious stupid mistakes.

  • @user-pk6zb7ir6f
    @user-pk6zb7ir6f 4 місяці тому

    Marshall was the only one that I ever heard about sorry

  • @GaryHatcher-jv9qw
    @GaryHatcher-jv9qw 4 місяці тому

    ❤sad😢

  • @jculpmm7
    @jculpmm7 5 місяців тому

    I remember seeing this on the TV here in Virginia when I was 10years old and felt bad for the families. At a young age it was hard to understand. This was a very good memorial video to WS players and the others that passed. For those players who have passed since the making of this video, may you have peace at last and the lord be with you. I bet they are playing one heck of a game against Marshall in Heaven. May the Lord be with those who have left us and to the survivors and families that are still with us.

  • @audengrumet3985
    @audengrumet3985 6 місяців тому

    I happen to be camping (boondocking) about ten miles from the crash site as I watch this film…

  • @audengrumet3985
    @audengrumet3985 6 місяців тому

    When was this film made and released? Description implies a release around 2009, yet footage looks more like 1990.

  • @xjcrossx
    @xjcrossx 6 місяців тому

    Captain Cracker and First Officer Skipper?

  • @garywest8705
    @garywest8705 7 місяців тому

    I lost a good friend in that plane crash. Randy Kiesau of Clinton, Oklahoma

  • @markmullin4246
    @markmullin4246 9 місяців тому

    Marshall, lost almost it's entire team 😢

  • @deanjackson8976
    @deanjackson8976 10 місяців тому

    My brother Randy Jackson was one of the survivors of that plane crash . I came home from school that day of the crash and saw my mama standing behind the screen door with tears in her eyes. I will never forget that day. Randy was blessed to play his senior year at WSU and in the NFL. My brother, since has gone on to be with his maker.

  • @asmrcritique6565
    @asmrcritique6565 10 місяців тому

    Having to face the Arkansas Razorbacks as your first game back had to have been a mighty challenge in itself.

  • @lauralarson1961
    @lauralarson1961 11 місяців тому

    I was born in October of 71 - well after both the WSU and Marshall plane crashes. Growing up in the upper Midwest, I remember learning about WSU plane crash and that a 2nd college had suffered a similar crash. I didn't really know what facts belonged to which crash then. But I firmly believe that both Marshall and WSU are forever tied in their grief.

  • @chrismoody1342
    @chrismoody1342 Рік тому

    I remember that day. Ii was only a freshman in high school. But I was watching TV I’d guess about 4.30 in the afternoon when news came. I was the one in my household who broke the news to the my family. Even as a kid I understood the magnitude of this event as told my family members. It was just a few years later that I was student on the WSU campus. I get excited about KSU and KU’s successes, but I’ll alway pull the hardest for my Shockers till the end of my days.

  • @cleekmaker00
    @cleekmaker00 Рік тому

    Every time I drive up I-70 approaching the Eisenhower Tunnel, I always salute or tip my cap when I pass by the Memorial. YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN.

  • @sirsmokey710
    @sirsmokey710 Рік тому

    And it's crazy to think that what a month after this Marshall happened

    • @USMC-Veteran73-77
      @USMC-Veteran73-77 Рік тому

      I remember the Marshall plane crash in November 1970. I was a 15 yr old kid staying all night with a friend, in Teavys Valley, WV only 20 miles from the Marshall plane crash.

  • @Benjimac379
    @Benjimac379 Рік тому

    I find this disaster ironic seeing how it occurred right before the Marshall tragedy

  • @genedemarcojr3991
    @genedemarcojr3991 Рік тому

    Blame that guy who went on a site seeing tour on gold plane

  • @terryrunde8631
    @terryrunde8631 Рік тому

    Incredible story. This should have been made into a movie/documentary like Marshall

  • @jimrodes6000
    @jimrodes6000 Рік тому

    As a graduate of marshall and going through what we went through as well, knowing what they went through, we will always have that connection to wichita state. May God grant you peace

  • @sethderusseau3429
    @sethderusseau3429 Рік тому

    As a Kansas State fan, I feel really bad for those that didn't survive and the few survivors, fans, and school. As others have mentioned, it's about time they bring back this football program as a memorial. I would cheer the hell on for them.

  • @rockerjim8045
    @rockerjim8045 Рік тому

    RIP to all of those who died. Can't believe so much of the wreckage is still there.

  • @RowdyRuth
    @RowdyRuth Рік тому

    😢😢😢

  • @U.S.bill2066
    @U.S.bill2066 Рік тому

    Same plane as the Leonard Skynard Plane. The Non Turbo Version was a constant array of problems. When the Turbo came out things improved dramatically. Wish for the sake of this team it was the turbo version..

  • @carlnash7200
    @carlnash7200 Рік тому

    Who got sued and for how much?

  • @loriepostlewaite162
    @loriepostlewaite162 Рік тому

    Very heartbreaking God bless these survivors for their strength as well as the family members who lost their loved ones may they always be remembered. Very sad to know the program had to end but hopefully it will one day return to honor these young men ❤️ May they all RIP 🙏🏻❤️☀️

  • @krugerfuchs
    @krugerfuchs Рік тому

    Did witchita help marshall a month later

  • @HandleThisSelection2
    @HandleThisSelection2 Рік тому

    Pilot error. So often the case.

  • @gary_stavropoulos
    @gary_stavropoulos Рік тому

    Why is the wreckage still there?

  • @eliasreed5143
    @eliasreed5143 Рік тому

    I'm not a Wichita fan but as an Alabama fan, we will remember the lives for those who lost their lives 😢😭🙏🌾🌾

  • @cr1m203
    @cr1m203 2 роки тому

    Watching the sad memories like this makes me understand why we have so many laws and regulations now. The whole firm and operations of said plane admitted to wrong doing yet were never held accountable and responsible for it. No, these people didn’t have it like we have it now in modern times. This was a time where your neighbors, friends and family were ALL family coming together in need. I couldn’t imagine being a survivor of all this that took place. Losing someone sitting right next to you in a blink of an eye with no control has to be the most chilling experience and feeling. Now it’s clear why people of that era fight so hard in modern times to hold people accountable. They do this so it doesn’t happen to the next generations of family and friends.

  • @nativevirginian8344
    @nativevirginian8344 2 роки тому

    RIP Mary King Boyer.

  • @jaggg.3821
    @jaggg.3821 2 роки тому

    Man McDonnell Airplanes were the worse aircraft to be flying in they had so many issue's. Just How bad was McDonnell DC Airplane's? I watched the Air Crash Investigation on Behind the Close Door's. Including the Crash that killed the whole Marshall Football team coming back from a Game. Pilot error definitely is to blame for this crash but, other crashes involving McDonnell Air Craft oh know that was Company related problems to those Air plane's. It was a surprise that there were survivors of this particular crash in the 70's considering where they'd crashed.

  • @dianetolleson7174
    @dianetolleson7174 2 роки тому

    My first cousin, Mike Bruce, was one of the 9 survivors.

    • @coriG77
      @coriG77 Рік тому

      I was 7 when this happened. My dad came home late that day. My mom was mad at first until she seen that he was crying. My brother and I were in bed at the time. We sneaked into the kitchen and sat on the floor listening to what my dad said as he was crying. My dad and others seen the plane crash as they were heading home after their shift. I won’t give any details of what I heard. And I will never forget that night. I am Happy to hear your cousin survived.

  • @brianjones808
    @brianjones808 2 роки тому

    Okay let's all go watch a Jim Carey movie now.

  • @loriepostlewaite162
    @loriepostlewaite162 2 роки тому

    Makes me wonder if they were mentally ready for another game three weeks later. I think that’s pushing it a little maybe a little disrespectful but I could be totally wrong though 🤷🏼‍♀️ sad to see the program has ended though ❤️

  • @robertdaniels9023
    @robertdaniels9023 2 роки тому

    Was this the one 43 days before the Marshall crash?

  • @jim7627
    @jim7627 2 роки тому

    I guess this was overshadowed by the 1970 Marshall plane crash as I've never heard of it until now .... RIP.

  • @mr.g1758
    @mr.g1758 2 роки тому

    I think a movie should be made of this event.

  • @VinceScaglione
    @VinceScaglione 2 роки тому

    Not sure which was worse.......to survive and feel guilty or to just be done with it all!

  • @kimwaddell4218
    @kimwaddell4218 2 роки тому

    I didn't know about this crash.

  • @brianchisnell1548
    @brianchisnell1548 2 роки тому

    Proof again that the safest seat in a plane is the very back. That's where the black box is.

  • @2200Z
    @2200Z 2 роки тому

    A well-done documentary for those that perished, and, maybe, for those that survived as well. Kudos to the Arkansas fans that displayed such class.

  • @ZombieslayRJacob
    @ZombieslayRJacob 2 роки тому

    My condolences for everyone who tragically lost their lives on the field and in those planes, my god that had to be so unfortunate 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

  • @Roc-Righteous
    @Roc-Righteous 3 роки тому

    As a Bama fan, I was 1 year old at the time, never knew about this until recently. RIP and bless all associated with it.