who survived from lynyrd skynyrd's plane crash
1977 Mississippi CV-240 crash Lead vocalist/founding member Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist/vocalist Steve Gaines, backing vocalist Cassie Gaines (Steve's older sister), assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary, and co-pilot William Gray all died as a result of the crash; twenty others survived.[5]
US Airways Flight 1549 The accident came to be known as the "Miracle on the Hudson",[4][5][6] and a National Transportation Safety Board official described it as "the most successful ditching in aviation history."[7] The Board rejected the notion that the pilot could have avoided ditching by returning to LaGuardia or diverting to nearby Teterboro Airport.