Failed to mention that Holly never would have chartered that plane if the record company had decent buses, instead of the run down junk they rented for the Winter Tour! *R.i.P.*
@@gabbyvillarreal1062 He actually did want to go on the plane. He begged Tommy Alsup to let him have his seat on the plane and they flipped a coin for it as Tommy was leaving the venue. Richie called heads and it was heads, so he took Tommy’s seat.
I visited the Surf Ballroom and crash site with a friend last August. Very sentimental and haunting. I fell in love with 50s/60s music as a kid and preteen in the 80s,mostly due to it was the music from a generation before and what my parents grew up with. My dad took me to see "La Bamba" in the summer of 1987 and rented "The Buddy Holly Story" on VHS for me to watch to teach me this wonderful but tragic history of early rock and roll. My dad was 13 yrs old that winter of 1959 and a huge Buddy Holly fan. In fact he was supposed to attend the Sioux City, Iowa stop of the tour just 2 nights after the fateful Clear Lake show. I will still never understand why the concert promoters had to be such cheapskates and fail to provide decent transportation and facilities for these guys. They barely had time to take showers, wash clothes, eat meals and get a decent nights sleep. No wonder Buddy was so desperate to get on the plane that night, along with Ritchie and the Big Bopper, both of whom were battling bad colds. I wish the tour manager had stepped in and told them to just get a hotel room in Mason City or Clear Lake that night then fly out the next morning. We will never know what could have been but at least we can know the 3 young stars left a great legacy of music, inspiring everyone from the Beatles to Carlos Santana. It's pretty telling that Buddy was part of the very first class inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1985, while Ritchie, the youngest member of the HoF, was inducted in 2001 alongside Michael Jackson, Queen and Aerosmith.
Very similar to me growing up. My step-dad bought me a cassette of the move soundtrack, "American Graffiti". I loved that tape and listened to it all through my middle school and high school years.
@@hiddenmelodies9282 Its a meme, its been around for a little bit, its just seemed to have a resurgence in the last year. Basically in CoD: Modern Warfare, there was a thing in the opening scene where you were at a funeral and you had to press F to pay respects, which was just the charactor placing their hand on the casket for a couple seconds. It was memed because of how ridiculous it was.
they believe the pilot was confused with the gyroscope. the one he normally used the horizon stayed locked and the wing indicator moved. on this plane the wings were locked and the horizon moved. when the storm came in he had to use instruments only. the confusion with the different gyro caused him to mistakenly maneuver the opposite of what he needed to do. this caused him to lose altitude and crash.
True, except the weather in the vicinity of the airport was VFR at the time of the crash according to the CAB report. Jerry Dwyer watched the tail lights of the plane all the way to the horizon, a distance of more than 5 miles. The theory is that once the pilot got a couple miles north of the airport the lack of lights on the ground caused the pilot to use, and misread, the artificial horizon of the gyro.
I sincerely believe that too is what happened that gyroscope worked in the opposite way of other ones he used naturally that would have confused me too
Well actually the owner of the charter company flew out that morning to look for the plane, he of course found it and notified the sheriff. There was no search and rescue.
Lol! For real! They trash-talked the pilot for 10 seconds, didn't bother to mention his name, and it doesn't look like he even got a marker. RIP unnamed, young, inexperienced pilot.
Um, what are you all talking about? This clip covered a LOT about the pilot. And he specifically said that there were no survivors. The pilot's marker is right next to the marker for the musicians. It clearly states his name. Since that was all he was known for ...killing these famous musicians... I don't know how much it would have added to include his name in the narrative of this vid.
@scottishterrier100 bruh it's kinda common knowledge. He wasn't familiar with the gyroscope that was installed in that plane, or at least they think. That plane, if the indicator dipped below the horizon line, meant you were actually going up. It was opposite. Pilot was more familiar with the conventional ones where up was up and down was down.
@scottishterrier100 read the CAB report. That Beachcraft Bonanza had a Sperry Gyroscope that was essentially inverted from other Gyroscopes. It’s theorized that Pilot Peterson misread the Gyro and thought the plane was upside down so he rolled the aircraft to right it causing the crash.
It’s either lack of knowledge, drugs, or alcohol in the system, just like what happened with Aaliyah, people nowadays don’t let anyone get past without proper training, and no drunks or druggies.
@@gabbyvillarreal1062 i heard that in Aaliyah’s case the plane had been overloaded and the pilot had told them so but they just told him to just do as he was told and fly the plane. The pilot being under the influence did not help matters and probably why he didn’t put much of a fight and went along with it. In the end the cause of the crash had been determined to be that the plane was overloaded.
I'm from Iowa and I never heard about this till I was older and heard American Pie. So I asked my dad what The Day the Music Died meant and found out. I've never been to the actual crash site. I probably should go sometime.
A True story is Holly was developing his own record label , he left his band the crickets and was planning a new life with his recently wedded wife . He needed this winter tour to start his dream of fame and fortune , the real tragedy is it ended with the evident hurried up pace of the tour , trying to meet schedules in winter type conditions . Waylon was planned to be his first signed artist . I could really see the future as he already had wrote a few new songs , you can search to hear Buddies never performed song to remember the legend as he was at his best . I truly wish he had made a different decision that night , in his gut I can imagine their was always that feeling , just one more show to possible get a better bus , ignored the thought that everyone just can’t stand , broken promises . The report early the next morning left all with shock , it was to soon , truly broken hearts .
What a shame they were all so young specially Ritchie Valens I think he was 17 and the pilot was only Twenty-One years old my God just a real tragedy terrible terrible
May I request short stories on Lynyrd Skynyrd's & Patsy Cline's crashes? Waylon Jennings was almost with Holly & them that night, but he decided not to fly that night.
No he gave up his seat the big bopper because the bopper had the flu and Ritchie got a seat due to a coin flip against Tommy and won his seat.tragic to all 3 of these amazing musician .R.I.P.
Only The Trinity (Almighty God, Jesus Christ, & the Holy Spirit) is the Trinity. The deceased were mere, mortal men. Finite; imperfect. How terribly sacriligious!
I remember watching something about the crash, it said stuff about all of them, their last performance, and how shortly after, they crashed, I also remember that it said that Buddy had kids.
The real mystery here is why Jerry Dwyer, the owner of the flight company, would allow a pilot not IFR-rated to fly a plane at night when there was a chance of IFR conditions and a certainty of dark horizons that would force the pilot to use instruments. Why didn't he fly them himself or get an IFR-rated pilot to do it?
if the movie about ritchie was accurate, he would have traveled on the bus but for the fact that he was sick and the heater on the bus did not function.
I personally liked Dion's take on the events that night. He was, as a headliner, offered a seat on the plane by Buddy, but turned it down. He said it wasn't the day the music died but the day the music exploded. They lost great musicians and friends that night but from that point on, Rock had its direction set. Buddy created how band lineups would be (2 guitars, bass & drums), and the big boys would write their own songs, if they were serious. John & Paul and Mick & Keith and Dylan and so many others got the "memo".
And people also forget that he may have gotten clear it's for the take off but he was messaged a little bit later of the storm and he never got that message
There are so many errors in this article. Could you do a report on the crash that took Jim Croce on Sept. 20, 1973 in LA as well as Patsy Cline's death.
I would like to know the back story...how did this Rookie pilot get scheduled to fly these VIPs..at night in weather? Who was in charge of logistics... Was the pilot someone's relative?
Very good question and it seems nobody can explain why. The owner of the charter flight service, Jerry Dwyer, was in charge of scheduling flights. He was actually at the airport that night and saw the flight off. But it was a huge error in judgement on his part and borderline criminal negligence in my opinion. He knew Peterson was NOT instrument rated to fly at night plus the snowstorm warning from the National Weather Service was never relayed to Peterson. Dwyer himself was older and a more experienced pilot who was instrument rated. The prudent decision would have been to scrap the flight all together that night and fly out in the morning OR for Dwyer himself to pilot the plane. I think Dwyer just wanted to make a fast buck from having 3 big rock stars pay for his flight service but in the end his negligence in my mind is part of the reason 4 young people died senselessly that night.
"... Holly's song "That'll Be the Day" was number one on the charts.." Nope. It was out of the charts over a year at the time of the crash. It was credited to The Crickets. Buddy had NOTHING in the Top 40 at the time. Buddy only had ONE solo Top 10 hit in his life... and it was never # 1 (Peggy Sue). I almost expected him to say that "American Pie" was the name of the plane (it wasn't).
Yes it is. If you do a Google search there are pics up of what it looks like today. On the outside they have a monument dedicated in honor of Buddy, Ritchie, J.P., and Roger. On the inside are a lot of cool pics of Buddy and the others.
The Pilot had control of the plane the whole time. Perhaps Starstruck The pilot read the Gyro wrong and was descending in a right turn. He thought he was climbing in a right bank. Dark, no ground lights, loight snow, they never had a chance to react. The plane hit the ground at 170 mph. They never knew what hit them.
That information is not correct. When does not affect flight instruments. The pilot was inexperienced and the plane was not certified nor was the pilot or the charter company for instrument flight rules. Back in 1959 the type of instruments and air traffic control was not the same as it is today. The plane was a 1947 model which had some very crude instrumentation. The reason for the crash is unknown, more than likely spatial disorientation due to a lack of visual reference. Even the most experienced pilots will experience spatial disorientation if they do not know how to use or trust their instruments.
It’s misinformation that the weather somehow stopped the instruments from working properly. This was 100% pilot error, he lacked the experience needed to fly at night and read the instruments. How Bill Dwyer could have let him fly that night is beyond comprehension, to top it off Dwyer has an attitude about it and refuses to let anyone examine the plane to find new clues.
That'll Be the Day topped the US charts in November 1957. The plane crash occurred on February 1959. So, no, That'll be the Day was NOT number one at the time, not even close. Such sloppy work doesn't exactly encourage me to pay to see the full documentary.
For what I suggest and the footages shown the altitude meter has shown wrong heights. They flew way too low. the unreliable meters that time were sensitive for sub zero + bad visibility Peterson was unfortunately thinking he flew the correct altitude the rest is history..
21 year old pilot (not likely professional with 5,000 flying hours+) Left during the nighttime …crosswinds are worse at night or can be Left during a snowstorm …. That is just plain ignorant. We cannot know the outcomes before we take an action however they risked quite a lot in this event and at the wrong time and it cost them their lives.
buddy hollys " that'll be the day" hadn't been in the charts since 1957. Holly was a fading star at the time, records sales were in decline, hence the reason he was on a package tour.
No he was on the tour because he needed the money. Buddy's former manager Norman Petty was holding his royalties and wouldn't give Buddy the money. He was going to be a dad and needed the money for that and to start his recording company.
You can get a Private Pilots License (To be able to fly solo) at 16. And a Commercial Pilots License (To be able to fly passengers) at 17. So theoretically hey could’ve had a 17 year old pilot.
Nothing was mentioned in the true story about a pilot being young. The plane had issues with fuel and supposedly , weren't allowed to go back for more.
@scottishterrier100 l see you are interested in the facts...do you think pilot forgot carb heat ? and iced up carb ? they did not get far and carb icing can happen fast in that weather what do you think ? maybe ? was there ever any other mention of this by safety board ? as for suggestions of fuel issue..was there any water in the fuel already had some issue...what could that have been water...and cold temps and no carb heat perhaps....things missed or neglected in the hurry to get loaded and underway. formula for engine failure...very sad.... RIP fella's
windy instruments became unreliable ? no. dipped too low, a wing hit the ground technically true. pretty much a smack down full speed. pilot probably knew he was in a world of hurt just prior as seeing all black horizon.
Nice narrator voice etc but this is very very weak in terms of describing accident sequence. If you know anything about aviation and the facts of the accident sequence you like me were highly annoyed during the video
No not yet. Luckily we still had a then 12 year old boy named Farouk Bulsara, then attending a boarding school in India who loved rock music and could play piano by ear.
Failed to mention that Holly never would have chartered that plane if the record company had decent buses, instead of the run down junk they rented for the Winter Tour! *R.i.P.*
Same as with Skynyrd.
I heard they were killed on purpose by the record company, there was a lot of political stuff going on in terms of their music!
Same with Richie, he didn’t even want to go on the plane, he was scared to ride in one.
@@gabbyvillarreal1062 He actually did want to go on the plane. He begged Tommy Alsup to let him have his seat on the plane and they flipped a coin for it as Tommy was leaving the venue. Richie called heads and it was heads, so he took Tommy’s seat.
@@isaiah2810 I thought he was scared of planes...
I visited the Surf Ballroom and crash site with a friend last August. Very sentimental and haunting. I fell in love with 50s/60s music as a kid and preteen in the 80s,mostly due to it was the music from a generation before and what my parents grew up with. My dad took me to see "La Bamba" in the summer of 1987 and rented "The Buddy Holly Story" on VHS for me to watch to teach me this wonderful but tragic history of early rock and roll. My dad was 13 yrs old that winter of 1959 and a huge Buddy Holly fan. In fact he was supposed to attend the Sioux City, Iowa stop of the tour just 2 nights after the fateful Clear Lake show. I will still never understand why the concert promoters had to be such cheapskates and fail to provide decent transportation and facilities for these guys. They barely had time to take showers, wash clothes, eat meals and get a decent nights sleep. No wonder Buddy was so desperate to get on the plane that night, along with Ritchie and the Big Bopper, both of whom were battling bad colds. I wish the tour manager had stepped in and told them to just get a hotel room in Mason City or Clear Lake that night then fly out the next morning. We will never know what could have been but at least we can know the 3 young stars left a great legacy of music, inspiring everyone from the Beatles to Carlos Santana. It's pretty telling that Buddy was part of the very first class inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1985, while Ritchie, the youngest member of the HoF, was inducted in 2001 alongside Michael Jackson, Queen and Aerosmith.
Very similar to me growing up. My step-dad bought me a cassette of the move soundtrack, "American Graffiti". I loved that tape and listened to it all through my middle school and high school years.
I always say that music hasn't really recovered from that accident.
"To pay their respects"
All I could imagine was someone bringing a keyboard to the site and hitting F
What's up with press f to pay respect? Why f? Sorry I've been living under a rock
@@hiddenmelodies9282 Its a meme, its been around for a little bit, its just seemed to have a resurgence in the last year. Basically in CoD: Modern Warfare, there was a thing in the opening scene where you were at a funeral and you had to press F to pay respects, which was just the charactor placing their hand on the casket for a couple seconds. It was memed because of how ridiculous it was.
@@MrJustinUSCMlol OK I get it. A meme that started from CoD and pressing F is ridiculous lmao
F
@@MrJustinUSCMCOD: Advanced Warfare, not Modern Warfare
RIP
Roger Peterson
(1937-1959)
Buddy Holly
(1936-1959)
Ritchie Valens
(1941-1959)
and
J.P. Richardson Jr.
(1930-1959)
they believe the pilot was confused with the gyroscope. the one he normally used the horizon stayed locked and the wing indicator moved. on this plane the wings were locked and the horizon moved. when the storm came in he had to use instruments only. the confusion with the different gyro caused him to mistakenly maneuver the opposite of what he needed to do. this caused him to lose altitude and crash.
True, except the weather in the vicinity of the airport was VFR at the time of the crash according to the CAB report. Jerry Dwyer watched the tail lights of the plane all the way to the horizon, a distance of more than 5 miles. The theory is that once the pilot got a couple miles north of the airport the lack of lights on the ground caused the pilot to use, and misread, the artificial horizon of the gyro.
I sincerely believe that too is what happened that gyroscope worked in the opposite way of other ones he used naturally that would have confused me too
Well actually the owner of the charter company flew out that morning to look for the plane, he of course found it and notified the sheriff. There was no search and rescue.
Geez, don’t mention the pilot dying or anything...
Lol! For real! They trash-talked the pilot for 10 seconds, didn't bother to mention his name, and it doesn't look like he even got a marker. RIP unnamed, young, inexperienced pilot.
karmakazi219 right? He was quite young himself!
Um, what are you all talking about? This clip covered a LOT about the pilot. And he specifically said that there were no survivors. The pilot's marker is right next to the marker for the musicians. It clearly states his name. Since that was all he was known for ...killing these famous musicians... I don't know how much it would have added to include his name in the narrative of this vid.
I mean he caused it. Also the plane probably reached max weight. plus add ice, damn dude
Raising The Reeps exactly
I've heard the pilot was not educated on the older instruments of this specific plane .
@scottishterrier100 bruh it's kinda common knowledge. He wasn't familiar with the gyroscope that was installed in that plane, or at least they think. That plane, if the indicator dipped below the horizon line, meant you were actually going up. It was opposite. Pilot was more familiar with the conventional ones where up was up and down was down.
@scottishterrier100 read the CAB report. That Beachcraft Bonanza had a Sperry Gyroscope that was essentially inverted from other Gyroscopes. It’s theorized that Pilot Peterson misread the Gyro and thought the plane was upside down so he rolled the aircraft to right it causing the crash.
It’s either lack of knowledge, drugs, or alcohol in the system, just like what happened with Aaliyah, people nowadays don’t let anyone get past without proper training, and no drunks or druggies.
THE PLANE WAS 1959 BEECHCRAFT BONANZA
@@gabbyvillarreal1062 i heard that in Aaliyah’s case the plane had been overloaded and the pilot had told them so but they just told him to just do as he was told and fly the plane. The pilot being under the influence did not help matters and probably why he didn’t put much of a fight and went along with it. In the end the cause of the crash had been determined to be that the plane was overloaded.
I'm from Iowa and I never heard about this till I was older and heard American Pie. So I asked my dad what The Day the Music Died meant and found out. I've never been to the actual crash site. I probably should go sometime.
Did you go?
*I was 7 yrs. old and learned about it on 📺 TV getting home from school ...*
A True story is Holly was developing his own record label , he left his band the crickets and was planning a new life with his recently wedded wife . He needed this winter tour to start his dream of fame and fortune , the real tragedy is it ended with the evident hurried up pace of the tour , trying to meet schedules in winter type conditions . Waylon was planned to be his first signed artist . I could really see the future as he already had wrote a few new songs , you can search to hear Buddies never performed song to remember the legend as he was at his best . I truly wish he had made a different decision that night , in his gut I can imagine their was always that feeling , just one more show to possible get a better bus , ignored the thought that everyone just can’t stand , broken promises . The report early the next morning left all with shock , it was to soon , truly broken hearts .
What a shame they were all so young specially Ritchie Valens I think he was 17 and the pilot was only Twenty-One years old my God just a real tragedy terrible terrible
Been there beautiful town, sad story :(
May I request short stories on Lynyrd Skynyrd's & Patsy Cline's crashes? Waylon Jennings was almost with Holly & them that night, but he decided not to fly that night.
No he gave up his seat the big bopper because the bopper had the flu and Ritchie got a seat due to a coin flip against Tommy and won his seat.tragic to all 3 of these amazing musician .R.I.P.
@@whttemire1995 That's right. I'd forgotten those.
RIP Guys. The World misses you.😣😔😣🙏🙏🙏
Don McLean: “The Day The Music Died.. And they were singing”
High winds do not make instruments unreliable. The pilots lack of IFR and weather experience caused this.
Absolutely! The Smithsonian Channel Does The Worst Aviation Videos. The Flight Channel Is Much Better.
So dumb to blame people.
exactly
....and the three men that I admired the most.
The father, son and the Holy Ghost.
They caught the last train for the coast.
The Day The Music Died.
Only The Trinity (Almighty God, Jesus Christ, & the Holy Spirit) is the Trinity. The deceased were mere, mortal men. Finite; imperfect. How terribly sacriligious!
rest in heavenly peace you will forever be in our hearts and prayers forever
This HAS to be the weirdest coincidence...
The Peggy Sue Gerron that inspired Buddy Holly's Peggy Sue died TODAY on the upload date...
Just read about that.
1:09 "The 21 year old pilot received clearance from the tower for take off".Mason City Airport is an uncontrolled airport.
*Sad, Sad Day!* 😥
I remember watching something about the crash, it said stuff about all of them, their last performance, and how shortly after, they crashed, I also remember that it said that Buddy had kids.
No his wife was pregnant but she lost the child
The real mystery here is why Jerry Dwyer, the owner of the flight company, would allow a pilot not IFR-rated to fly a plane at night when there was a chance of IFR conditions and a certainty of dark horizons that would force the pilot to use instruments. Why didn't he fly them himself or get an IFR-rated pilot to do it?
I was almost 1 year old at the time
I was born years later, like, three years after Selena died.
if the movie about ritchie was accurate, he would have traveled on the bus but for the fact that he was sick and the heater on the bus did not function.
I believe it's true.
Both the Bopper and Ritchie were down with the flu. One of the main reasons they got on.
@@greek1237 at least it wasn't covid
I personally liked Dion's take on the events that night. He was, as a headliner, offered a seat on the plane by Buddy, but turned it down. He said it wasn't the day the music died but the day the music exploded. They lost great musicians and friends that night but from that point on, Rock had its direction set. Buddy created how band lineups would be (2 guitars, bass & drums), and the big boys would write their own songs, if they were serious. John & Paul and Mick & Keith and Dylan and so many others got the "memo".
And people also forget that he may have gotten clear it's for the take off but he was messaged a little bit later of the storm and he never got that message
the day I cry
There are so many errors in this article. Could you do a report on the crash that took Jim Croce on Sept. 20, 1973 in LA as well as Patsy Cline's death.
Can you guys do an episode on the plane crash that Randy Rhoads was in? I would love to know the exact details.
The hit song at the time was Donna. That'll be the day was a hit in 1957.
21 year old pilot? With Age comes knowledge and wisdom..... Ill take an 80 year old pilot over 21 year old.
It's the fact that he was 21 and nobody else was with him.
62 years ago tomorrow am.
The flight should have been delayed until the next morning.
RICHHIIIIEEEEEEEE
Oh how that song makes me cry
When the piano music kicks in I get so sad. Such a senseless and avoidable tragedy
Not too far away from my hometown. I go to Clear Lake every summer
You can’t find two people to tell the same story. And WHY do they ONLY talk about Buddy Holly? The other hardly get a mention.
my god my favourite ricthie valens died at the young age of 17 years
Most of the information in this video about the plane crash is incorrect.
Yes, I believe you are correct. What killed those four young men was unfamiliarity, confusion, and then panic.
@@megadavis5377 you are correct
Iam working in abroad. I have to go home.but how
VERY TRAGIC ! R.I.P. ALL.
I just visited, flew my drone around the area. Paid my respect.
Not one picture of any of them?!
Buddy Holly was ahead of his time
That 'll be the Day was not a number 1 hit during the Winter Dance Party. For the Smithsonian you sure are inaccurate.
I would like to know the back story...how did this Rookie pilot get scheduled to fly these VIPs..at night in weather? Who was in charge of logistics... Was the pilot someone's relative?
Very good question and it seems nobody can explain why. The owner of the charter flight service, Jerry Dwyer, was in charge of scheduling flights. He was actually at the airport that night and saw the flight off. But it was a huge error in judgement on his part and borderline criminal negligence in my opinion. He knew Peterson was NOT instrument rated to fly at night plus the snowstorm warning from the National Weather Service was never relayed to Peterson. Dwyer himself was older and a more experienced pilot who was instrument rated. The prudent decision would have been to scrap the flight all together that night and fly out in the morning OR for Dwyer himself to pilot the plane. I think Dwyer just wanted to make a fast buck from having 3 big rock stars pay for his flight service but in the end his negligence in my mind is part of the reason 4 young people died senselessly that night.
Departing at night in a snowstorm with a 21 year old flying as the only pilot on board. EEEEEEEEEE !
Copperhead H today, I wouldn’t trust a 21 year old to make me a sandwich
Could've been worse, coked up, as Skynyrd and Randy Rhodes' pilots were rumored to be...
"... Holly's song "That'll Be the Day" was number one on the charts.." Nope. It was out of the charts over a year at the time of the crash. It was credited to The Crickets. Buddy had NOTHING in the Top 40 at the time. Buddy only had ONE solo Top 10 hit in his life... and it was never # 1 (Peggy Sue). I almost expected him to say that "American Pie" was the name of the plane (it wasn't).
everybody knows the name of the plane was The Free Bird. LOL
Who cares always some 🛋️ know it all on the internet some people's kid's.
Real Music
I actually clicked the video because i thought it was about the mineral rocks..
B r u h
In a sense...... it is
So sad. Just curious. Is The Surf Ballroom still around ?
Yes it is. If you do a Google search there are pics up of what it looks like today. On the outside they have a monument dedicated in honor of Buddy, Ritchie, J.P., and Roger. On the inside are a lot of cool pics of Buddy and the others.
Peggy Sue Gerron died today. She was 78.
life is so unpredictable
I wasn't even born yet. 🙊
My dad wasnt even in his father’s balls
3rd Type Beats Live
Bruh
I wouldn’t get on a small plane like that now in a snowstorm. It’s 2021.
The Pilot had control of the plane the whole time. Perhaps Starstruck The pilot read the Gyro wrong and was descending in a right turn. He thought he was climbing in a right bank. Dark, no ground lights, loight snow, they never had a chance to react. The plane hit the ground at 170 mph. They never knew what hit them.
Can anyone tell me if the are full length episodes to these short vids?
The day the music died
That information is not correct. When does not affect flight instruments. The pilot was inexperienced and the plane was not certified nor was the pilot or the charter company for instrument flight rules. Back in 1959 the type of instruments and air traffic control was not the same as it is today. The plane was a 1947 model which had some very crude instrumentation. The reason for the crash is unknown, more than likely spatial disorientation due to a lack of visual reference. Even the most experienced pilots will experience spatial disorientation if they do not know how to use or trust their instruments.
RIP/VIP too all
What is the music that is used at the end?
The Smithsonian Channel Theme. All TV channels have jingles.
high winds made instruments unreliable ? please explain
Better do an episode on the Patsy Cline crash...
Some even say the Surf Ballroom is haunted and that every Feb.3 a plane is heard in the midnight but no one can be seen.
Some say that’s garbage.
Rip rock and rollers
The day, the music died. And I was singin'. Bye bye Ms. American Pie, drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry...
such a tragedy
rest in peace
No idea who the narrator say the rock and roll stars are, but the plane crash is tragicly sad
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the BIG BOPPER , JP Richardson
How can any commercial pilot not be instrument rated? It's not rocket science, even in this era.
It’s misinformation that the weather somehow stopped the instruments from working properly. This was 100% pilot error, he lacked the experience needed to fly at night and read the instruments. How Bill Dwyer could have let him fly that night is beyond comprehension, to top it off Dwyer has an attitude about it and refuses to let anyone examine the plane to find new clues.
That'll Be the Day topped the US charts in November 1957. The plane crash occurred on February 1959. So, no, That'll be the Day was NOT number one at the time, not even close. Such sloppy work doesn't exactly encourage me to pay to see the full documentary.
For what I suggest and the footages shown the altitude meter has shown wrong heights. They flew way too low. the unreliable meters that time were sensitive for sub zero + bad visibility Peterson was unfortunately thinking he flew the correct altitude the rest is history..
Remakable!
21 year old pilot (not likely professional with 5,000 flying hours+)
Left during the nighttime …crosswinds are worse at night or can be
Left during a snowstorm …. That is just plain ignorant.
We cannot know the outcomes before we take an action however they risked quite a lot in this event and at the wrong time and it cost them their lives.
21 year old charter pilot? That is young.
His father was a pilot. He taught him to fly, and sometimes Roger would fly his dad's plane to his high school and land in a near-by field.
I wonder if they would have had a safe landing if not for that fence.
Not sideways, no.
Smithsonian Channel:"There were No survivors"
Also Smithsonian Channel:It's brighter here.
The names would have been nice I have no clue how die.
buddy hollys " that'll be the day" hadn't been in the charts since 1957.
Holly was a fading star at the time, records sales were in decline, hence the reason he was on a package tour.
No he was on the tour because he needed the money. Buddy's former manager Norman Petty was holding his royalties and wouldn't give Buddy the money. He was going to be a dad and needed the money for that and to start his recording company.
RIP It's Sad that the plane Crashed they should of given Them better Transportation With heating they should of Boarded the plane in the Morning.
21 YEAR OLD PILOT???
You can get a Private Pilots License (To be able to fly solo) at 16. And a Commercial Pilots License (To be able to fly passengers) at 17. So theoretically hey could’ve had a 17 year old pilot.
This isn't true. I heard there were issues with the plane. And were told to go back and refuel. But they refused to fix the issue.
Nothing was mentioned in the true story about a pilot being young. The plane had issues with fuel and supposedly , weren't allowed to go back for more.
There was something wrong with the plane and everyone knew it. Yet, they cared less. And made them to carry on to their destination.
@scottishterrier100 l see you are interested in the facts...do you think pilot forgot carb heat ? and iced up carb ? they did not get far and carb icing can happen fast in that weather what do you think ? maybe ? was there ever any other mention of this by safety board ? as for suggestions of fuel issue..was there any water in the fuel already had some issue...what could that have been water...and cold temps and no carb heat perhaps....things
missed or neglected in the hurry to get loaded and underway. formula for engine failure...very sad.... RIP fella's
I think you're thinking of Skynyrd...
You're confusing it with the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash in '77.
windy instruments became unreliable ? no. dipped too low, a wing hit the ground technically true. pretty much a smack down full speed. pilot probably knew he was in a world of hurt just prior as seeing all black horizon.
Nice narrator voice etc but this is very very weak in terms of describing accident sequence. If you know anything about aviation and the facts of the accident sequence you like me were highly annoyed during the video
Oh my god
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is it the day autotune was invented?
No not yet. Luckily we still had a then 12 year old boy named Farouk Bulsara, then attending a boarding school in India who loved rock music and could play piano by ear.
Paula Houlden and like a 100 other legends too
They were doing extensive tape splicing since before the 1980s (see Madonna) to do the same thing before that.
wow
How was Ritchie a legend he was only 17
Because he helped bring Chicano music to the masses.
One mean Iowa cornfield
The crash was in Iowa?
@@gabbyvillarreal1062 I dunno, I was drinking two years ago, don't even remember this comment. We could look it up, but what fun would that be? ✌️
@@sandspar I just looked it up out of curiosity, it’s clear lake, Iowa.
So dangerous
What?
Flying on a plane is much safer than driving. Or playing Minecraft for that matter.
But Dion is still alive. And he’s the best of them all.
Bye bye Ms. American Pie
Sounds like bourdain narrating
There was no storm and the instruments were fine. The pilot just couldn’t read them properly
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1:11 Into the night ? *Really* ?
Edit: why they show day
*HOW ARE YOU GOING TO SEE ANYTHING AT NIGHT?!?*