But it's an emotional thing, it really is, to come back here. New Mississippi road signs make finding Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash site easier. 20, 1977, plane crash that killed members of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, points to where he was sitting in the band’s doomed airplane at the. I'm going to sit down and read it and take my time, so I figured let the fans come up. Judy Van Zant, widow of crash victim and Skynyrd lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, raised the curtain on a black granite monument on the roadside about 400 yards from the crash site deep in the dense. Read More Gene Odom, one of the survivors of the Oct. "I went around and looked at the stuff on the back, but I just felt like the fans needed to get on up there. "I knew the fans were just itching to get up there, so I still haven't read the writing on the front," she said. Three band members - lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, and vocalist Cassie Gaines died in the. The history making crash occurred on October 20, 1977, when the leased plane the band was traveling on, ran out of fuel and plummeted into the dense woods of Gillsburg. She said she was determined to accommodate them all. It’s the site of the infamous Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash. When the brief ceremony ended, Judy was surrounded by Skynyrd fans wanting a picture with her. about 400 yards from the actual crash site. 20th 1977, some 3000 curious area residents showed up at the crash site, and in the darkness and confusion they were stealing jewlery, suitcases, band. Many of the first responders did not recognize the victims, one of them wondering aloud: "What's a bunch of hippies doing on an airplane? They don't look like they can afford a ticket." The monument will be a fourteen-foot-wide and 8 foot tall black granite monument with Lynyrd Skynyrd pictures and information displayed on both sides of the band and plane crash.
But that autumn day had otherwise been beautiful."Īnother panel, titled "Rise of the Simple Man," tells the history of the band that formed out of a group of friends who attended Lee High School.Ī third panel tells the story of the rescue. An oak tree nearby has Lynyrd Skynyrd iconography carved into it, and this monument was installed by locals in 2019.
Etched in stone, one panel describes the history of the crash: "The plane was doomed. The site of the crash became a memorial for fans, rescuers, and survivors.
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