Otis Redding, 26, and five teenage members of his band were killed Dec. 10, 1967, when their twin-engine aircraft plunged into frigid Lake Monona in Wisconsin.

Otis Redding, 26, and five teenage members of his band were killed Dec. 10, 1967, when their twin-engine aircraft plunged into frigid Lake Monona in Wisconsin.
On the night of August 31, 1969, the day before his 46th birthday, former world heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano was a passenger in a light plane that took off from Chicago despite warnings of stormy weather ahead.
Patsy Cline cheated death twice. The country music legend escaped death twice, at 13 and at 28, but her luck ran out at the age of 30.
The plane had room for only three passengers and since the Big Bopper had the flu and wanted to get there as quickly as possible he took Waylon Jennings’ seat on the plane and Waylon stayed on the bus.