Patsy Cline Plane Crash 1963 Story
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- Опубліковано 16 січ 2022
- Today we are flying from Kansas City to Nashville while we discuss and find the sites involved with the March 5, 1963 plane crash that killed American country music performers Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hawkshaw Hawkins along with the pilot Randy Hughes. This is an updated version of the video that was previously uploaded on this channel.
The crash involved a three-year-old PA-24-250 Comanche four-seat, light, single-engine airplane manufactured in 1960 by Piper Aircraft. Serial Number 24-2144 Registered as N7000P.
We are back in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and flying a Piper Arrow III.
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As a pilot myself who’s been flying for almost 35 yrs i can’t wrap my head around patsy’s pilots thought process. Here he has three passengers trusting his judgement and he elects to go ahead and take off from an airport reporting a cloud ceiling of 500 ft overcast at night as an non instrument rated pilot. My only surprise is how far he made it. What a scary and horrific few seconds of life all on board experienced as they slammed into the ground at 175 mph. WTF !!!
Thank you for weighing in as a qualified experienced pilot. That pilot must have been very cocky and arrogant. I assume he was trying to prove travel by private plane was worth it over relying on cars and delays were not on his agenda. He murdered the passengers because he was duly warned not to fly that night.
@@jacquelynskye295 I dont feel it was a situation of A cocky arrogant pilot. I do feel that him being a low time pilot and new to the world of aviation he just failed to grasp how potentially dangerous night time flying can be when you mix weather into the equation. The most powerful tool a pilot has is in his pocket, it’s called a credit card. Get a hotel room, a good nights rest and reevaluate your flight plan in the morning. I appreciate your comment Jacqueline.✈️👍
@@jeffbou1743 They were offered free room and food to stay overnight and wait it out. I appreciate your opinion about the pilot's inexperience, that of course played a part in the fatal crash. I feel he was also trying to justify air travel advantages over ground transportation that evening. He wanted to skip the delays and make a point that the plane pays for itself and was a superior mode of transportation. Without the instruments to guide him, he had to be an arrogant dude to fly in such a turbulent night sky. He was warned by many to stay put that night and had to be an arrogant SOB to assume he could make it by following the TN River as a guideline. It was all of what you mentioned and arrogance mixed into his decision. Pasty Cline said whatever will be will be. Crazy thinking when she had little children at home dependent on her. I would have refused to fly that night if I'd been a passenger.
@@jacquelynskye295 me too also how many hours did this guy have under his belt u wouldn’t and couldn’t pay me enough to get into a small plane with someone like him
@@jacquelynskye295 Give it a rest. Poor guy died too. Jesus says to forgive. What's up with you?
I remember the day of the crash well, it was in all the news. The visual depiction of Cornelia Fort (M88) is very realistic, how it looks today, but was quite different back then. I began flying lessons there in 1966. Runway 4/22 was a 2400’ long, dirt strip and very muddy after a rainfall. The runway lights then were a single row of lights to the west of the runway with 2 green lights to mark the runway ends. Very difficult to land at at night though I did it successfully for many years. It was also very rural with none of the surrounding area being lit, also being prone to fog at night from the Cumberland River. Impossible if there was any weather such as low clouds. The site where Opryland sits now was a swampy river bottom back then during the winter and cornfields in the summer with no highways anywhere. The field also 300’ lower in elevation than BNA which truly made landing there look like a “black hole.” Very fond memories of working there at Colemill through my high school and college years. P.S. The asphalt runway you see now was added around 1971 and was 2800’ long then if I remember correctly; but it didn’t make it any easier to land on at a night!
It's too bad that inexperienced pilots don't learn lessons from previous plane crashes. This crash was eerily similar to the Buddy Holly crash 4 years earlier. Bad weather, low visibility, 3 music stars and one pilot who is not instrument rated, decide to take off into oblivion rather than stay the night. Pilot gets disoriented and flies them all into the ground. It's good to learn lessons from other people's tragic failures.
Illuminati
@Lord Master soon u will be rotten too
Still a top killer vmc into iimc.
I know. Like for Buddy Holly. Must have been a motel in Clear Lake they could have stayed at. Then if they wanted to fly out after sunrise to get there ahead they could have. Crash would have never happened in all likelihood.
@@noodlesmama9096 They were supposed to die. Everything was orchestrated by a higher power. They were supposed to fly and die.
I'm not in to country music but I can listen to Patsy all day long her voice was Beautiful in it's self. Love you Patsy. Hope to meet you on the other side.
To make the tragedy even worse, a few days later, Jack Anglin, half of the longtime duo Johnnie and Jack, died in a car wreck on the way to the memorial service. I remember hearing that story several years ago.
Nobody was in a hurry, but the pilot needed to prove to himself that he could make it . Four people, including himself, died a terrifying death . These kinds of stories always make me feel sad and morbid .
My dad flew a Piper Comanche. I went with him many times as a young child. He swore is was one of his favorite planes, being well built and reliable. As a pilot, he never took any risk. I still appreciate that about him.
A year ago I drove from Rockford IL to Camden, TN (505 miles) to visit this crash site. I sat there on a bench for an hour thinking about about that event. It was a surreal moment. Thank you Mr. Narrator guy for a more detailed occurrence of this tragedy. It means a lot.
I visited the crash about 5weeks ago. Very quiet, solemn place. Patsy Cline's mgr. Had a special romantic interest in her that never came to fruition. I think Male self confidence overcame him,also her pilot and may have misguided his judgment . Kn, Belvedere,il.
@@kennelson4895 I can only image Patsy had many admirers, and yes, the pilot did not have instrument training. He could only fly by sight. Visibility was non existent. He had no clue how to correct himself. We men and our egos. I was in Nashville a week ago, and I drove out to her personal home north of town. I also toured the Patsy Cline Museum downtown Nashville last Wednesday as well.
Patsy Cline, Buddy Holly, Jim Croce, Rick Nelson and sadly the list seems endless. So many talented artists were lost to small planes and the skies. RIP
Tragically, Rick Nelson's manager should never have let anyone fly in that unsafe plane.
He was aware that there were issues with it - being an old plane as it was.
The common thread is nobody is watching out for the safety of these people. Entertainers seem to hire the most incompetent people on earth to help them travel.
Same thing with Lynyrd Skynyrd they shouldn’t have been flying there plane❤️🩹
Jim Reeves also
Jim Reeves also in 1964
Randy Hughes was flying the plane that day, and he was told not to fly because of the weather. Well, of course he didn't listen. The plane clipped some trees and crashed with no survivors. It's sad but a lot of plane crashes could have been avoided if the pilot had only listened.
I believe in those days, rules were hardly followed. Today it would be different. Those pilots would have to tow the line.
Thanks summed up a 30 min video in 1 paragraph.
Kobe Bryant!!!!
Same with the crash that killed Buddy Holly 4 years earlier. Bad weather, young pilot not instrument certified. Both of these tragedies could have been so easily avoided. Simple arrogance. (Jan Griffiths).
@@faithnaidoo7647no
Thank you for your wonderful yet terribly sad video. I was fortunate enough to meet and know both Patsy's mother, Hilda Hensley, and Patsy's 2nd husband, Charlie Dick. It's still so amazing of what she accomplished in such a relatively short period of time... May God bless her, her family, friends, and fans always... 🙏❤ 😇
Thank You Greg.
This is a great video. Thank you for this. I was too young to remember Patsy Cline growing up in her hometown. But as a resident of Winchester Va. My family owned businesses and Patsy and her mother were frequent customers to their store. She put our area on the map and this was another tragic loss. Ironically her daughter and I share the same birth date and Patsy's grave site is also right next to my mother's.
Having run into a terrible storm upon taking off from Dyersburg airport at approximately the same time of day. I think I can say without doubt that they were flying totally blind in the high winds and heavy rain. They were undoubtedly frightened into complete neurological shutdown.
They didn't feel a thing!
I will always consider Patsy the best.
In ground school I learned about attitudes that affect pilots. I think once someone gets a couple hundred hours, give or take the one attitude that kills people is over confident or "it won't happen to me". Spacial disorientation can happen to ever the most experienced pilots but what separates them is a trust in their instruments and letting go of their feel of the aircraft or their middle ear response. Spacial disorientation kills a lot of folks just like the Bryant helicopter crash. Folks if your gonna fly and there is a risk of IMC, either don't fly or get IFR training and learn to fly by instruments. Your body is not designed to fly and your inner ear will trick you. Acceleration in IMC will feel like a pitch up even if your pitching down. I think we should train GA pilots better even VFR pilots so these kind of accidents don't happen. Maybe go through an IFR type of training so pilots will be aware if in the event of an IMC condition, at least they have an understanding of what to do. Too many crashes due to spacial disorientation. The biggest killers are this, stall spin and CFIT. Time to get control of this in GA and put a stop to it by training. FAA you listening?
I think your statement "Your body is not designed to fly " says it all in regards to what you point out about instruments. They were designed for flying. Thanks for the info.
I am no longer a young man.
By now I can agree with the statement : "youth is wasted on the young" .
I know the guy she sent home to be with family. He's 99 years old, still has the jacket he wore when he played in her band (wore it to his grandson's wedding a few years ago) and is 99 and it bothers him to this very day...and he's still a member of the Grand Ole Opry and not doing well and will soon see her and his band mates again...
It’s no wonder Elvis Presley’s mom was terrified for him to fly back then. I’m glad Elvis rode a train. Elvis flew for years till a plane engine problem encouraged Elvis to buy his own plane. He knew if anything was going to be wrong with his plane it would be something he had more control over. The only problem Elvis ever had with his plane was ice on a runway one time as they landed in Memphis.
Back when the Patsy Cline movie came out I had only been flying for a couple of years. In the movie, it showed the engine shutting off and after a loss of altitude, it started again. Of course, the pilot was pleased with himself and did not take any evasive action to regain the lost altitude. At that point, I leaned over to my girl friend that flew all the time with me and said that I would be in the tightest climbing turn possible but I didn't get a chance to finish what I was saying because in the movie it showed the aircraft coming out of the clouds and crashing into a mountain. It was many years later when I heard how the airplane really crashed.
So Sad!! I wish they had gone on a bus! I remember. It was heartbreaking! 4 beautiful people!
So sad. Thank you for showing us what they saw when they looked out their windows before they were taken from us. Roger Miller finding them was just shocking news!
Excellent presentation. Such a senseless tragedy. 😢
One of the greatest female singers, all time
I’m in utter awe. This is one of the most perfect videos I’ve ever watched.
I'm a longtime flight simmer (Flight Sim X, Steam Edition). I read the NTSB report on this crash and then simulated the flight with the same weather and time conditions. The closet plane I had was a 4-place Mooney. I flew the route VFR as well (although I know how to fly IFR, but used no GPS assistance at all). Scud running below the clouds and darkening skies, I also lost sight of the horizon except I kept my eye on the Artificial Horizon and the Altitude indicator to avoid spatial disorientation. Wondering where I was I looked up from my instruments just long enough to attempt to see any sign of the horizon, caught a glimpse of treetops coming right at me and pulled up just in time and just missed them. I climbed again and skimmed along just under the ceiling of the clouds until I caught sight of a city and found an airport which turned out to be Benton Co. Airport south of Camden, landed there and said to myself, "screw this", taxied to a stop and stopped the simulation. I found myself literally shaking after that SIMULATED flight!
Well at least you did make the landing. 👍 You can definitely gain some insight into how these crashes happen just from the sim. There is a big difference between a calm, sunny, clear day and nighttime darkness with poor weather conditions.
WOW, why take such chances and potentially endanger others on the ground. That's like me simulating a car accident. No thanks. 👎
gettin real.
@@jacquelynskye295 wasn't he in a simulator, thus no one was in any real danger or am I missing something??
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What a tragic loss Love her
The pictures you took, it can be seen the souls still there . Th prayed for them to God , I have done that for years , to send souls that died home to be at peace.
Even patsy’s voice I heard say behind me “Thank You” just stood there for seconds and left. Angels came and took them home . Thank you for presenting this video.
Thank you Dude Tours. Such talented artists. Patsy Cline had a beautiful voice. RIP to these lost souls.🎵🌹❤❤❤❤
Leroy Neal worked at the Dyersburg airport. He was the last person to ever talk to this group. He had rented a room for them at the Holiday Inn and told them to wait until the next day to fly. He said there was a bad storm between Dyersburg and Nashville and if they got caught in it it would be deadly. The group was tired. They had to land a few times because of bad weather and were ready to get home. Leroy warned them about the storm. Randy Hughes said he talked with someone in Nashville and they said it was clearing up and he would use the Tennessee river for reference. They were in the air just a few minutes when they crashed. A tragic thing that could have been prevented.
Really enjoyed this video, thank you! Besides loving to fly Cessna's, Patsy Cline is my favorite country music artist. The video is well formatted, extremely well done and the flight simulator is an awesome touch. Glad you came up on my recommendations. I subscribed
🙏RIP TO ALL WHO PERISHED 🙏
Well done & thank you for the backstory. I can hardly wait to introduce my dad to your channel!
Thanks for posting. I watched today as it is the 59th anniversary. What I find amazing is that both that crash site and Buddy Holly site are exactly the same as they were then like time has stood still. And it has been 60 years gone by.
Amazing after all these years people are still fans of these musicians. Says something about them. Thanks for watching.
cornfields in eyeowa and wooded areas bhum F TN have a way of preserving themselves.
The area of the 1963 crash site is fairly remote. As well, it's swamp land called, Fatty Bottom. I doubt the land would be useful given the cost to improve it for building. However, in modern days it may be under preservation as being wetlands.
It's very sad. How dare people scavenge the crash site. What's wrong w/some people? Poor victims. RIP.🌹🌺
@@isabellind1292 I couldn't agree with you more. That sickens me. The site needed to be handled like a crime scene. But more importantly, as my mom would say, that land became sacred when people died there. The scavenger's brought darkness in there when the site deserved respect and prayer.
The day that the music died.
These videos stimulating the flights are always great and the scenery is really pretty!
Randy had several chances to postpone the remaing part if the trip, but went on ahead with stubborn determined decision to finish the flight and land at the Airport. I am not experienced in any sense, but he should have waited until the next day.. 4 lives were sadly lost
Thank you for this video. It's really an eerie feeling I have as I paused it after hearing the 3 or 4 seconds of that Cowboy Copas song "Alabam" that I Don't ever remember hearing before and opened a new tab, went to UA-cam and listened to the song a few times before adding it to my "Doo-Wop/50's/Oldies" List and returned to this video. I've been involved in music since I was 16 as a drummer, guitarist, Bass player and decent singer and was a drummer in a Rock-A-Billy band that even went to London for 3 gigs in 1993. But the strange part for me is that I just turned '59' on April 14th, and was born on Easter Sunday that month in 1963 and this crash happened 30 days before.
I never looked into the details of this crash before and because I clicked on your video I found a New "Old" song that is really Good and still can't believe I'd never heard of Cowboy Copas and "Alabam" before so Thank you for the belated B'day gift as it is now April 21st, 2022 😉
Glad you enjoyed it and I was not really familiar with Cowboy Copas prior to researching this event. Happy belated birthday. I am also an April birthday.
@@DudeTours Thank You and a Happy belated Birthday to you ; )
This is very well done, excellent combining the background of the stars and the itinerary of the flight, thank you for great narration🙏
Thanks for watching and your comment, they are fun to make and the fact other people enjoy them so much is amazing. I appreciate it.
Hi, newbie here. I'm diggin' this episode. It is unfortunate when you think of all the great musicians who have perished in plane and helicopter crashes. Patsy is one of a kind. Well done!
Thanks for feedback. There does seem to be along list of famous people who tragically die in small aircraft. I think in part it is that a lot of the accidents involve "time" over "safety," the business aspect demanding them to be somewhere.
Randy Rhoads (plane) in 1982 and Stevie Ray Vaughan (helicopter) in 1990 were the 2 that hit me the hardest. Randy was only 25 yrs old and Stevie was 35 yrs old.
🎉 you did a mighty fine job on this video thank you I remember that I'm 76 years old
What a informative video. I truly enjoyed watching this. I thought I knew all about the crash but I learned quite a bit from you. Great job.
Thanks for watching.
You just received another, very deserved LIKE ! Loving your videos, have been binging on them since 8am today...lol Keep up the great content!
Thanks for your video on this tragic loss!
God got another sngel
Angel patsy
Wonderful documentary! Three great stars were killed long before they reached their peak. There will never be another star who will be as good as Patsy Cline. May they all rest in peace. Thank you for doing the documentary. Maybe one day I will visit the site.
Another awesome video, great job!
On that day I had flown a Piper Colt from Smith Field in Siloam Springs, Arkansas to Rogers for its annual service and inspection. Upon landing I taxied to the fueling station but had to wait because of a single engine Comanche still at the pumps. While I waited about 50 feet off I noticed a very pretty young lady walking rapidly out of the nearby hanger toward the plane. At that point the young lady arrived at the back of the right wing and a gentleman came out of the front passenger seat stood on the wing and helped the young lady up on the wing and into the left rear seat. With that the gentleman pushed back the the front seat and climbed in the front passenger seat, sat down, and closed the door. The plane taxied off the the north end of the runway. I then taxied up to the pumps. When I got out out the young man at the pumps asked me “Did you see those crazy people in that Comanche? They had me top it off. It is really heavy they have luggage, four people and full tanks. Let’s see how long it takes them get in the air. We watched and they took at least three quarter of the runway, and disappeared into the haze. I believe it was Monday morning, I picked up a newspaper on my way to Trigonometry class. There in the headlines was the announcement, “Patsey Cline Killed in a plane crash. I was a senior at John Brown University, in Siloam Springs, Arkansas.
Trigonometry class....memories memories
Yeah, Trig was almost my downfall. I had to take it twice. BTW, for all my pilot brothers and sisters, “Needle, Ball, & Air Speed”, it would have saved John Kennedy Jr. if he had understood it and used it! Right?
Great story. Thanks for sharing that. I guess Trigonometry has more to do with the story than just where you were heading. 🤔
That spatial weird thing is what they believe happened with Kobe Bryants chopper. His pilot was also only supposed to fly VFR too.
also kobe may have payed that pilot off to fly even know it was unsafe
@@NickyD I talked to a 30yr helo pilot the other day. I asked him about Kobe’s pilot.
He said that is one super dumb ass.
He said he has landed in fog many times.
It’s just not worth the risk.
Kobe’s last words were.
Hold on Gigi
It happens far too often.
I grew up in Camden TN where this happened. Randy Hughes was actually not the person who discovered it. A local man, Bill McLin actually saw it from a fire tower a few miles away. That afternoon, the school buses drove us out to the crash site before taking us home. I still remember the things hanging from the trees. That was probably 58 years ago but I can still see those images like it was yesterday.
It's amazing what bus drivers could do then. My God people would burn them at the stake these days.
@@DramaMustRemainOnTheStage you know I told someone that exact same thing not too long ago.
@@DramaMustRemainOnTheStage And all without an interstate highway system.
School surely was different back in those days. Why traumatize children in that way! Like you were taken on a tour bus to check out the deceased celebrities. 💀
@@jacquelynskye295 We discussed this at a class reunion one year. One of my schoolmates brought up an interesting theory. She said the drivers probably wanted to get out there and see the crash site before dark. It had to be something like that because why drive a bus load of kids out there? It was not in our regular route at all.
I’ve been to that auditorium in Kansas City in 1965, and saw a lot of artists. That Downtown hotel was my landmark as a kid to know where I was.
Nice format and video.
Subscribed! 👍🏼
Excellent presentation. Fascinating!
WHO would steal from a crash site? Was Patsy's dress ever located? And to steal her money also? The person(s )who did this knew exactly whose belongings that they had. Wow, life never ceases to amaze me.
Someone should have been stationed to guard the area until all was cleared away. 🙄
Her Elgin wristwatch was stolen and sold. A young police officer was interviewed and bragged about taking a gold cufflink from one of the men..
There are alot of demons in this world. Unfortunately.
Stealing from a crash site is just sick and shows a sick and distorted mind. I hope they caught the thiefs
I read different versions of the watch for some reason
It is always disconcerting to me, as a GA pilot, to learn about VFR pilots flying into weather when it could have been prevented by just staying over until the next morning. Even worse, that scavengers would loot the sight and steal items which they no doubt sold for money later, realizing they belonged to a famous person. May the four victims all rest in peace and the looters go to hell!
Wonderful documentary! It’s too bad that the pilot felt overly confident of his limited knowledge.
My father was a pilot for British Airways from 1967-1990, and he was piloting the Concorde his last 10 years. He always said an overly confident pilot is a deadly pilot. The worst airline disaster in history was in 1977 in the Canary Islands when two 747’s collided at the Tenerife airport. A KLM (the Dutch airline) 747 drove straight towards a Pan Am 747 that was on the runway and attempted to fly over it. The KLM wasn’t high enough and smashed into the roof of the Pan Am jet, causing both to explode. 583 people were killed. There was fog at the airport, but the KLM pilot was impatient and decided to take off anyhow, ignoring the advice of the flight tower. He took off at full speed down the runway, and didn’t have the time to stop. Oddly enough, this pilot was one of the best jumbo jet pilots in the industry at that time, but he also had a reputation for being very arrogant and having a bad temper.
KLM pilot was the company safety officer too.
I Listen to ATC and pilots on scanner.
BA Pilots seen the safest. They ask the most questions. Speedbird
I never knew Patsy Cline and so many artists died in a plane crash. It Is so eerie how many famous people die in plane crashes or helicopters . This crash was just a little over four years after the crash on February 3,1959 of the Beechcraft Bonanza during the bad winter weather that claimed the lives of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr.aka " The Big Bopper" , and pilot Roger Peterson .
Wow, I appreciate all of the hard work it took to produce this video! Very well done! May their souls rest in peace. Can you do one about Jim Reeves and his plane crash. His problem was that he flew directly into a major storm just miles from Nashville airport rather than turning around and going around it as advised.
Thanks for checking out the video, I have had quite a few requests for Jim Reeves so I guess that one moves to the top of the list.
Can you do one over Kobe Bryant's crash?
Anyone that's a pilot knows that there is no 'usual' flight. With the added dimension of being airborne, the constant need to stay aloft, forward and usually upright increases exponentially. not just like an accelerator and brake on a ground based vehicle. Violating FAA codes and apparent loss of common sense and concern, we lost some legends.
BRAVO to Roger Williams. he's a true, good man.
So many stars died in plane crash how terrible.
Dottie West begged Patsy to ride along with her and her husband at the time, Bill. Patsy told Dottie, "If it's my time to go hoss, it's my time".
The aircraft you chose in the simulator, an Arrow, is the aircraft in which I did most of my Instrument training. It was N9816C and was white with a blue stripe. But the aircraft depicted in this video looks almost exactly like another I flew frequently, Archer N47394. The Archer has an airframe very much like the Arrow, and this particular Archer was white with read and gold stripes, the same paint scheme as the aircraft in your video.
The FAA allows pilots to do things which can be quite unsafe, so the pilot really has to be responsible for his own safety. Night VFR is legal in the US, and it can be done safely so long as the pilot can maintain visual contact with the ground. In practice, this means you have to be able to see enough lights on the ground to orient yourself. The less populated the area, the greater visibility you have to have to see enough lights to orient yourself. In a sparsely populated area, this usually means 20 to 40 miles visibility. Otherwise, you're basically in Instrument conditions. This flight probably crashed due to low visibility VFR at night. A more recent one which crashed because the VFR pilot lost visual contact with the ground, or more accurately the water, was the last flight of JFK Jr. The FAA allows single engine night IFR, which I did once. After thinking about it, I decided not to attempt it again, because if that single engine failed, there would be little chance of making a successful emergency landing. Trusting your life to a single engine during night IFR is basically rolling the dice when you take off. I will say however that the ILS is your ace in the hole for a lot of other problems that might occur, because it will get you on the ground even in very poor weather.
These type of accidents are tragedies that don't have to happen.
Great insight. Yes a single engine seems like a great deal of risk. In the military we had a saying "Two is One , and One is None". I guess that applies to aircraft. VFR at night seems like accepting a fair amount of risk as well. Since I have the luxury of only flying the simulator I may try some night flying in rural (dark) areas and see how disorienting it can be. Thanks for watching.
RIP
Randy Hughes
(1928-1963)
Patsy Cline
(1932-1963)
Lloyd E. Copas
(1913-1963)
and
Hawkshaw Hawkins
(1921-1963)
It's touching you recreated a successful landing!
Thank you for the tour
Patsy was right when said ' when it's your time, it's your time '...So sad and tragic..
Yep.
There was absolutely no reason for this accident, but if you want to get on a plane with a substandard pilot to confirm that declaration ...
Cowboy Copas was a good acoustic guitar picker. The first instrumental I ever heard him do was "Cope's Wildwood Flower" ( a remake of the Carter Family hit "Wildwood Flower"). He did a lot of good songs. Ironically, in 1961 he re-released an Eddie Dean song called "I Dreamed of a Hillbilly Heaven". ( Also released the same year by Tex Ritter as a single) R.I.P. to all.
This video is the best on this subject that I have ever viewed, they should have stayed the night, maybe the weather would have been better the next day. By the way just an interesting side line, Back in the 1950's my dad played up[right bass for Hawkshaw Hawkins.... Great video...
They didn't learn from February 3rd, 1959. An other incident where a pilot was flying in conditions that they were not trained or approved for.
Clear Lake Iowa... Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper along with the pilot Roger Peterson.. American Pie "The Day the Music Died".. R.I.P. all
I'm not s big country music fan BUT damn she was amazing 😍!!!!! RIP ma'am.
Too many people have climbed into airplanes, small and large, with incompetent, stupid pilots that crashed and killed all passengers. I have been to the gravesite twice and both times felt sadness for those who perished and anger at the pilot for his incompetence and his complete failure to understand his own limitations. John Kennedy's similar shortcomings killed his wife and sister-in-law in similar circumstances.
big ike
A few short years ago the son of a lumber yard owner flew his plane into fog and crashed near where I live. People never learn from the mistakes of others.
Indeed
So many times three words properly observed and applied would have saved many lives, including John Kennedy Jr. “Needle, Ball, and Airspeed”. I know every pilot reading this understands!
And all they had to do was stay in a free hotel room until morning!
If Only always too late
I live in Winchester, they just had their Apple Blossom festival, I think its really sad they didn't do much for her here. But they did fix up the house where she grew up. I still haven't gone through that. Its so much! This town could rock big time, if they really wanted it, but progress is here very much. May their universes be complete in love for music for they touched so many hearts so much. I know where she was discovered but its empty today, and for sale the building. I heard it was restaurant with a music and space for dancing, she go in there and sing, I can't imagine how wonderful that was for her. God bless her sweet heart. She don't in fall in pieces anymore, she an Angel that lives in so many hearts today..
Billy was also killed in a car wreck not long ago. His wife and band members killed too. Jim Reeves was also killed in a plane he was flying.
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Thankyou for info about the Grand Old info that i hadnt known.
Great job !
4 People, All grown adults in a small plane like that, not to mention the luggage ? Yep a little to heavy, for weather conditions on top of that
Aeesome work, thanks!
Thank you, appreciate it.
Nice presentation!
“Get-There-Itis” kills so many pilots. There is much better training today to help pilot avoid spatial disorientation but it still kills people every year.
It seems to come down to being able to trust the gauges regardless of what you think or feel is your orientation.
@@DudeTours That’s it exactly-in flight training my instructor had me wear ‘foggles’, glasses you can’t see thru, and he performed various maneuvers to disrupt my equilibrium then gave me control of the plane and told me to get it wings level. I still couldn’t see and adjusted to what ‘felt’ wings level. I then took off the foggles and saw that I was diving at an angle towards the ground. You cannot trust your feeling - you MUST trust the instruments.
The pilot as he was made a horrible mistake. He was warned not to fly in those conditions when he wasn't qualified. He certainly put safety on the back burner. I wouldn't have taken the chance, one more night would have saved their lives.
A footnote to this involves another country music star. While traveling to Patsy Cline's memorial service, Jack Anglin of the musical duo Johnny and Jack, was killed in an auto accident. Jack Anglin's singing partner was Johnny Wright who was the husband of Kitty Wells.
I think I had read that somewhere, just adds to the whole tragedy. Thanks.
I wish you would do one on the plane crash that killed jim croce.
Will add that to the list, thanks.
what a tragic loss love Patsy
Your reporting on this sad event was interesting
Thanks for another good video. So sad to think scavengers actually stole Patsy’s money and dress! I heard they found Patsy’s foot stuck in a tree presumably knowing it was hers because the toenails had polish on them.
I guess it says something about all of them that all these years later we are still talking about them and enjoying some of their music.
People have no idea how rough things were in Appalachia during that time. I definitely don't condone what they did I definitely understand why they did it.
@@jefferyepstein9210 The crash site is not near the Appalachian range, it's much further west near Kentucky lake / Tennessee River and maybe 60 air miles from their intended destination, near Nashville. The Patsy Cline movie "Sweet Dreams" shows them crash into mountains - there are no mountains anywhere near Camden, Tennessee.
@Faye Enke Are you OK?
@@smelly_elvis Same living standards I remember well...
A case of GetThereItis and a pilot fatally over-estimating his own ability. VFR conditions were marginal with poor weather and Hughes only had a VFR rating. A fatal crash was inevitable.
Sounds identical to the Buddy crash
@@marklowe7431 also Kobe Bryant
@@marklowe7431 Yes it does.
@@crazycatlady68 You're right, Ma'am.
@@notme123 _If only he had..._ - Unfortunately, you can't re-run it and have another go.
Wow this was a awesome video thanks for sharing 👍 so so sad but awesome ❤️🩹 I always loved Patsy Cline 💔
Thank you, for watching and the feedback.
@@DudeTours Thank you again and you’re very welcome 👋👍❤️
it's sad but i..m glad i watched it because i didn't know that patsy died in a plane crash. lv u patsy
U did an amazing thing here. It's sad but informative. Have u done this with other famous plane crashes? If u haven't I suggest u keep doing it. I would like to see the flight of Audey Murphys crash. I'm in Va now. I did visit the crash site. I was taken by the history of it. I am a military vet. Audrey was the most decorated military man In U.S history. Keep up the good work. work
And the soft voice of narrator .. helps the sadness .. like a balm.
I was motoring west in Juan de Fuca on a bright sunny morning in the Sirena 38' sailboat, 1/4 m. from the S. shore and 1/2 mile from the shipping channel. A small bank of fog ahead. Seconds into entering the fog I could not believe the compass, could not see the mast -10', could not see the water 8', became scared of the ship channel or running aground on the south beach, could not believe the depth finder or the compass. Pulse rates going up, I'm shutting down from 5 knots to 2 knots and still scared - rush up to the bow, drop the anchor in 30' and go below and make some tea. I was spatially disoriented and scared - after tea and quiet I realized what happened. Imagine at speed and responsible for 3 others. Ugh! A terrible end. Sad. And a good story!
I don't why you didn't trust your compass and stay in the channel, unless you didn't start with a channel reference. Probably best that you dropped anchor. However, going below created a danger for yourself and other boatsmen, your duty was to stay on the bridge, running lights on, and sound your horns at the specified intervals.
I remember when this happened I was about 9 years old didn’t live far from Camden .
Hello Paulette how are you doing’n
The airplanes can be very VERY cruel to the overconfident personality. For the life of me, I cannot fathom someone who was NOT instrument rated attempting something like this?
well done again sir
The crash of the Richie Valance/Big Bopper/Buddy Holly snd JFK Jt error Aldo due to an inexperienced piloting in both night and instrument flying! As a pilot- know your limitations and skill level!
If my pilot can't fly with instruments? I ain't going...... whatsoever.
sounds like Patsy knew her time was coming? i hope Patsy did not suffer. and the others.
Love this video, but a correction. Kansas City International airport, known now as MCI was not in existence until 1971. The Municipal Airport in downtown Kansas City is where Patsy’s plane first took off from. The site you are referring to was an overhaul base.
Yes the Fairfax Municipal Airport is not active anymore (industrial park now) so in the simulator, we flew out of Kansas City International, but we did find and fly over the airport they departed from. Thanks.
4 years and 1 month earlier: the crash that took out Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, & Ritchie Valens.
Buddy’s oldest brother Larry died Thursday at 96 I believe. I’m in their home town of Lubbock. I was 4 and we had a 2 story house Buddy’s funeral procession had to drive right by to get to the City of Lubbock Cemetery. My Dad and I watched that procession from an upstairs window. It was very long.
Excellent!
Remember this well
Great presentation but the first country-pop crossover hit was Hank Williams song "Cold Cold Heart" that was covered by Tony Bennett in 1952.
I don't think anyone excluding me because I wasn't born till two years after Pat's Klein died but anyone that is still living from den to now I'm sure would have the horrifying memories of this I know that for sure Jean Shepard husband was killed in that terrible crash that claimed those lives Jean Shepard was a wonderful singer and I'm sure her husband was true before he had been killed Randy Hughes was a wonderful person from what I heard as well I have one of the books about Patsy Cline I don't know much about the other two singers but what I do know is that I loved Patsy Cline music and still do I've been listening to Patsy Cline's music since I was very young some of it makes me cry because it has so much meaning so much heartfelt voice in it that's for sure Patsy Cline will always be missed by a lot of people that are still alive today who may have been born in the 50s and 60s minus me because I was born two years later Patsy Cline deserves a lot of memories and deserved lotta love memorial for the rest of my life and we must never forget about Hank Williams Senior and many other singers who have died during those years through no fault of their own water it was hard attack or crashes or any other thing will always love Patsy Cline when I saw the movie Sweet dreams it made me cry when I saw the ending but what I wonder did Patsy Cline really say Charlie when she was dying when she remembered and saw I should say when she saw that she was going to crash did she say oh my God Charlie I wonder what her last words were I don't know what her it was the last words that were in the movie or not maybe they just said that anyways we love Patsy Cline and always well and her friends that went along with her do you know that she had a premonition she knew she wasn't going to live past 30 years old do you think she knew well thanks for doing these videos for us because it nice to remember the history
If only Randy Hughes would've listen and not flown and maybe they'd all be alive today.. and it wasn't the Tennessee River they flew over...it was the Mississippi River
Pilots in a rush seem to be a big issue with these crashes. Randy informed the flight control that he would be using the Tennessee River as a reference after leaving Dyersburg, Tennessee, and heading to Nashville. You are correct they would have already flown over the Mississippi River just prior to landing at Dyersburg. Thanks for watching.