![]() ![]() The group was to perform at Louisiana State University Friday night. The plane crashed eight miles south of the airports runway, minutes away from its destination in Baton Rouge. The pilot only moments before had radioed the flightĬontrol center in Houston that he was having fuel problems and had been told the nearest airport was at McComb. The plane carrying the Lynyrd Skynyrd rock group and their road crew, crashed shortly before 7pm in a wooded area of Amite County. Investigators spent the weekend interviewing the survivors and witnesses who were on the ground at the time of the crash. He added that the drugs were "in bottles and weren't labeled, some was prescription medicine and some was just old drugstore medicine.". ![]() He declined to say how much money had been recovered. Kasputin has said that the plane ran out of gas as a "distinct possibility." Rumors that drugs and money were found aboard the plane are false, said Amite County Sheriff Norman Travis.He said money and bottles of drugs were found "scattered in different places" at Investigators also asked to see complete records on the 30-plus-year-old Convair 240 and on both pilots, as efforts to determine what caused the crash continues. Autopsies were performed Friday on the bodies of the pilots. ![]() Rudolph Kasputin, director of the National Transportation Safety Board team combing the crash site, along with investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration, said the planes engines, fuel gauge and other equipment were removed Sunday for inspection. Several of the survivors of the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash at Gillsburg were reported in improved condition today while investigators continued to inspect the wreckage of the twin-engine aircraft that carried six persons to their deaths and injured 20 others Thursday night. A story originally published October 24, 1977, just days after the crash ![]()
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