38th Anniversery of the Evansville plane crash...

[Jack_Ripper]

I was too young but my grandpa was a State Policeman that responded to the crash...it choked him up talking about it until he passed...

 

[Eastern Boiler]

I was too young but my grandpa was a State Policeman that responded to the crash...it choked him up talking about it until he passed...

Oh god. I still remember it. I was just a teenager but one of those moments frozen in time. I still root for the purple aces to this day despite having no connection at all to the school.

 

[Heller]

Definitely remember that one and the ones at Marshall and Witchita State.

 

[rjmpu82]

I was a senior in high school. We played Pike every year. Pike's head coach, Ed Siegle, lost his son Mark in that crash. He was a freshman at Evansville and had played for his dad in high school.

 

[TNTBoiler]

I was a freshman at Purdue when that happened, remember reading about it in The Exponent.

 

[grego69]

can someone please tell me the date of crash

 

[Jack_Ripper]

can someone please tell me the date of crash

12/13/1977

 

[mman982]

Didn't remember much about the crash so I looked it up. Two sad facts...blamed on human error, and last surviving team member that didn't travel on that flight was struck and killed by a drunk driver two weeks later. Unreal.

 

[JohnnyDoeBoiler]

The ESPN 30 for 30 movie on the crash was great. One of my favorite films they have done.

 

[thenagemj02]

It seems like charter flights are safer nowadays than they used to be, but maybe I'm just biased. I remember reading that future longtime Utah Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan was offered the Evansville job in 1977 but changed his mind at the last minute and turned it down. Bobby Watson accepted the position and we all know what happened in December of that year. That will always be a sad day in history: http://images5.fanpop.com/image/pho...lebrities-who-died-young-31755044-425-270.jpg