Marshall Football Plane Crash Bodies

The four remaining starters from the 1970 first string team of marshall university take time out to pause at flower arrangement placed at marshall field following the.

Marshall football plane crash bodies. The plane was carrying 37 members of the marshall university thundering herd football team eight members of the coaching staff 25 boosters and five flight crew members. He and his wife rachel both died in the crash. Marshall team coaches fans die in plane crash 75 believed aboard plane. 14 1970 a plane carrying 75 people including marshalls football team coaches staff community members and flight crew crashed near the huntington tri state airport on a return trip.

Airline silent a chartered jet airliner carrying the marshall university football team coaches and a number of prominent huntington residents crashed in flames on its approach to tri state airport saturday. Thirty six football players and 39 coaches administrators community leaders fans and crew died when the teams chartered jet crashed at 737 pm. Rachel arnold wife of insurance executive charles red arnold rachel arnold. On november 14 1970 a chartered jet carrying most of the marshall university football team clips a stand of trees and crashes into a hillside just two miles from the tri state airport in kenova.

14 1970 a plane carrying members of the marshall university thundering herd football team and coaching staff crashed in west virginia killing all 75 people on board and plunging. They were survived by four daughters cathy robin cindy and tracy. The fiery furnace that once was a plane was so severe that the bodies of six players were never identified and were buried in a common gravesite.