I kept going back and forth to the cockpit to relay information to the cabin. With every drum beat, he thinks fondly of his lost buddies. It was 44 years ago last month that a Convair CV-240 passenger plane with members of. Billy Powell would be in the new starting line-up of Lynyrd Skynyrd until his death in 2009. Today's Lynyrd . I wanted Lynyrd Skynyrd fans to know what we went through that fateful day and night. I think thats proof of great music, when it surpasses the generation youre writing it for, and lives beyond it.. Listen to the words. Our pilot and co-pilot, I found them before I left the crash site, and they were both definitely dead. << After the pilot and co-pilot determined that the plane didn't have enough fuel to land at a nearby airport, they unsuccessfully attempted an emergency landing and crashed a few minutes before 7 p.m. in a wooded area near Gillsburg, Mississippi. As soon as it seemed that the worst of the flight was passing, the true nightmare was about to set in for Lynyrd Skynyrd and the crew aboard. Ronnie Van Zant talked everyone to use it, allegedly saying: If its your time to go, its your time to go, before boarding the plane. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Forty-five years to the day after a plane crash claimed the lives of three members of southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, Artimus Pyle remembers the tragedy like it was yesterday. Wilkerson suffered a double fracture to his left leg, a double compound fracture to his left arm, six broken ribs, one of which punctured his left lung, and severe facial damage, losing 15 teeth. All reality had been broken and none of the surviving members would ever be the same or view life the same again. In the movie, it shows some of the band freaking out because a couple of guys got really mad at our pilot and co-pilot for making the terrible mistakes that got us into this position. The inductees included posthumous honors for Ronnie Van Zant and Steve Gaines. Ronnie Van Zant, drunk and laying in the middle of the aisle, simply pulled himself together, sat up, and quietly chose a seat up front. He could hear the people moaning, pleading for help. The last time [frontman] Ronnie Van Zant ever played Free Bird was in Greenville, Pyle said. His father died when he was a boy, and his mother was an important force in his life, so much so, he said, that he named his first serious guitar, a Les Paul, Berniece after her. That says it all. When I heard Americas poet laureate quoting Ronnie Van Zant I literally got goosebumps..
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