He arrived back in England on 14 February 1958, eight days after the crash.

While driving in the 2001 Daytona 500, Earnhardt died of basilar skull fracture in a last-lap crash at Daytona International Speedway on February 18, 2001.

McLean's magnum opus, " American Pie ", is a sprawling, impressionistic ballad inspired partly by the deaths of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J. P. Richardson ( The Big Bopper ) in a plane crash on 3 February 1959.

On 26 February 2004, President Boris Trajkovski died in a plane crash near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

* February 5 – Lt. General Frank M. Andrews is selected to command the U. S. armies in Europe, while General Dwight Eisenhower is assigned command in North Africa ; General Andrews will serve only three months before dying in an airplane crash.

* February 3 – Killed in the crash of a private plane:

* February 8 – Thomas Selfridge, United States Army officer and first person killed in airplane crash ( d. 1908 )

* February 16 – Pan Am flight 103: Investigators announce that the cause of the crash was a bomb hidden inside a radio-cassette player.

In February 2009, a new memorial made by Paquette for pilot Roger Peterson was unveiled at the crash site.

In February 1941, Banting died of wounds and exposure following a Lockheed L-14 Super Electra / Hudson crash in Newfoundland.

Cerro Gordo County was the site of the airplane crash north of the city of Clear Lake, in which rock and roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. " The Big Bopper " Richardson, along with their pilot Roger A. Peterson, were killed on February 3, 1959.

In February 1965, Ranger 8 swept an oblique course over the south of Oceanus Procellarum and Mare Nubium, to crash in Mare Tranquillitatis where Apollo 11 would land 4½ years later.

A second firing further reduced velocity before Luna 20 set down safely on the Moon at 19: 19 UT on 21 February 1972 at coordinates 3 ° 32 ' north latitude and 56 ° 33 ' east longitude, only 1. 8 kilometers from the crash site of Luna 18.

On February 3, 1959, a day that has become known as The Day the Music Died ( from Don McLean's song " American Pie "), Richardson was killed in a plane crash in Iowa, along with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens.

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper died in a plane crash en route to their scheduled performance at the Moorhead Armory Building from Clear Lake, Iowa on February 3, 1959.

On February 20, 2000 the AT6 Monument was dedicated in the fliers ' honor at the crash site on Big Mountain.

With the death of EMCC's chairman and chief financial backer Harry L. Straus in a plane crash on October 25, 1949, EMCC was sold to typewriter maker Remington Rand on February 15, 1950.

However, Zicree evidently failed to research the date of the plane crash, as he lists an initial broadcast date for " The Purple Testament " of February 12, 1960, the very date of the crash.

Her eldest son, Paul, was killed on 13 February 1953 in a plane crash while serving with the Royal Air Force in Thailand.

On 6 February 2008, the 50th anniversary of the crash, several television channels showed programmes about it:

* February 29 – Buddy Holly's trademark glasses and the Big Bopper's wristwatch are " rediscovered " in old police files by the Mason City, Iowa, sheriff ( both were killed in a plane crash on February 3, 1959, along with singer Ritchie Valens ).

* February 3 – " The Day the Music Died ": Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper are killed in a plane crash in Iowa.

* 1927 – The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.

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He achieves his goal-one of those four hits being Show Boat ( 1927 )-but then the stock market crash of 1929 bankrupts him, forcing Billie to go back on the stage.

In fact Show Boat ended its original 1927 run in the spring of 1929 and the stock market crash did not occur until October of that year.

Sidney Evans died in a plane crash on 4 February 1927, leaving her pregnant with their son Peter Vernon Evans, who was adopted by his grandparents.

Known as Sunset Field before 1941, it was purchased from the county by the War Department and renamed Geiger Field after Major Harold Geiger, an Army aviation pioneer who died in a crash in 1927.

On 1 July 1927, Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd was forced to crash land his plane, America, in the sea off Ver-sur-Mer after his attempt at the first mail-carrying flight across the Atlantic failed.

Jake Featherston attacks the Mitchel Administration with the most vulgar venom and hate, blaming Mitchel for the crash, and condemning his ineffectual response to the ( historical ) floods that devastated the Mississippi River valley in 1927.

An earlier version of this service, the 17: 00 Cannon Street to Deal via Minister, was also involved in a fatal crash when it derailed at Sevenoaks on 24 August 1927.

On 1 January 1927 there was a train crash at Woodbridge station.

Unfortunately, just when her fame was at its height, with her life a constant whirl of lectures, races and long distances flights, Lady Heath ( she married Sir James Heath in October 1927 ) was badly injured in a crash just before the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio in 1929.

The design work had for a new passenger 2-6-0 with 6 ft ( 1. 83 m ) driving wheels was complete by 1927, when the involvement of a K class locomotive in the Sevenoaks rail crash presented an opportunity to bring forward construction of the class.

The rebuilds lost their names because of the bad publicity attached to the “ River ” class after the 1927 crash, and the heavily damaged No. A800 was the last member of the K class to be rebuilt to U class configuration in December 1928.

In that decade the partisan zeal to defend Mr. Hoover, and the party's failure to anticipate or cope with the depression, caused a great majority of Americans to see the Republican party as cold and lacking in any sympathy for the problems of human beings caught up in the distress and suffering brought on by the economic crash.

The Arapawa Island crash caused public confidence in Air Albatross to falter, contributing to the company going into liquidation in December of that year.

The cause of the crash has been attributed to Campbell not waiting to refuel after doing a first run of and hence the boat being lighter, and also the wash caused by his first run and made much worse by the use of the water brake.

It was known that early versions of BitchX were vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack in that they could be caused to crash by passing specially-crafted strings as arguments to certain IRC commands.

* 1972 – The Eltham Well Hall rail crash, caused by an intoxicated train driver, kills six people and injures 126.

In the novel Protector, the Martians were wiped out when Jack Brennan caused an ice asteroid to crash into the surface of Mars, raising the average humidity of the atmosphere.

At the end of the story, Luthor was apparently killed when Superman caused the dirigible to crash.

Although the saucer section was safely separated before the breach, the shock wave from the exploding engineering hull threw it out of control, and caused it to crash land on Veridian III.

Many TWA Flight 800 alternative theories exist, the most prevalent being that a missile strike from a terrorist or U. S. Navy vessel caused the crash, and is the subject of a government coverup.

The impact and subsequent fire caused the South Tower to collapse 56 minutes after the crash, resulting in hundreds of additional casualties due to the collapse of the tower.

This dive caused them to lose consciousness and crash.

** An air crash in Indonesia ( likely caused by smoke rising from numerous forest fires in the area ) kills 235 people ( see Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 ).

Several factors, such as the date, time, aircraft size, airline, eyewitness accounts, and location in New York, raised concerns that the crash was caused by another terrorist attack.

The Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System ( LAPES ) is a somewhat risky maneuver which allows accurate delivery onto a field when landing is not possible, and the practice was stopped after a fatal crash was caused by one such failed operation.

A serious blow to Fokker's reputation came after the TWA Flight 599 disaster in Kansas, when it became known that the crash was caused by a structural failure caused by wood rot.

This gave rise to the question of whether an accidental firearm discharge had caused the crash, and whether or not Richardson was not hurt as badly and tried to crawl for help, since his body was found farther from the crash site.

The actual number of readers was unclear because the encryption caused countless computers to crash.

The North American video game console crash of 1983 was caused by a combination of factors.

" He died in a mysterious plane crash in 1962, likely caused by a bomb in the plane.

Five years earlier, Welbach had caused a traffic accident in which he hit the car of local mobster Arnold Margolese ( Gene Hackman ), who was jailed for five years after the police searched his car following the crash, finding someone tied up in his trunk.

Olivares's left hand caused a visible pain expression on Argüello's face, but Argüello's left hand caused Olivares to crash hard against the canvas.