My mother, sisters, and Aunt Lola (Easley) drove by Johnny Mote's house, where they found Johnny and crash survivor Artimus Pyle. They took off into the swampy area looking for it, and were the first ones on the scene. My Uncle Dwain Easley and his friend Wayne Blades were hunting close to where the plane crash occurred, and heard it. They jumped in the car and went out to the road to see if they could find a car crash, because they had no idea it was a plane. My mom said the sound lasted about thirty seconds, then nothing. The windows were open because it was a cool evening, when they heard a very loud sound like "metal on metal". They were eating supper at our house, when they heard the plane crash. My mom (Connie), my two sisters (Natalie and Ashley), and my Aunt Lola. Who was at home when the plane crash occurred? Our house was approximately a quarter mile through pasture and woods to the crash site. Where was your family's house compared to the plane crash? The house closest to the plane crash belong to my parents (Connie Easley Sturdivant & Griffin Sturdivant), my Aunt Lola Easley, and Johnny Mote. My grandparents (Percy & Delores Easley), Johnny Mote, and Fernwood Industries. The actual resting place was on the corner's of three different properties. Who owned the property where the plane crashed at? Interview by Pat Adams is the Editor of with over 1,000 Nashville Tennessee concert pictures. She also consulted with her mother Connie, who was home at the time of the crash, and tells her story. ![]() She has collected family archives including newspaper's, photograph's, and family stories regarding the day the plane crashed in the woods behind there house. ![]() I interviewed Jacquelyn Sturdivant Cooper, a family member of the property owner. The propeller-driven Convair 240 skidded across tree tops for about 100 yards, then slammed into a swampy area and split open. Survivor's listed in critical condition, included members of the group's road crew and a camera man. Six other members of the rock band were injured, two hurt critically and four hospitalized in stable condition. Six lives were claimed in the crash including band members, Ronnie VanZant, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, Pilot Walter Wiley McCreary, co-pilot William John Gray, and Dean Kilpatrick (the assistant road manager for the group). The plane ran out of fuel and crashed beforeħ:00pm, at the wooded property. On October 20th 1977, a twin engine plane carrying the Rock 'N' Roll band Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed in a remote section of woods in near Gillsburg, Mississippi. MY 2006 INTERVIEW WITH JACQUELYN COOPER AT THE CRASH SCENEīy Pat Adams (from the Tennessee Concerts website)
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