A pilot forgot to fill up a plane with fuel. Or maybe he thought they had enough to get to Baton Rouge. We lost one of the best bands ever 48 years ago today.
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I've read the FAA accident report on this crash. Apparantly the engines were set at a higher power level than necessary, and it burned fuel twice as fast. Somehow they had no warning that they were running out.
Crashing from loss of fuel is the reason most survived. Otherwise the plane would have exploded into a fireball and killed them all
