Wichita State University football team plane crash - Wikipedia
WEBIt was one of two aircraft carrying the 1970 Wichita State Shockers football team to Logan, Utah, for a game against Utah State; [6] the second aircraft flew a conventional route and arrived safely in Utah.
50 years later, Wichita State football team's crash site on a …
WEBSep 26, 2020 · Less than two months after the Wichita State crash, a plane carrying 37 players from the Marshall football team went down on its approach to a runway in West Virginia, killing all 75 on...
Wichita State University Plane Crash Site - Atlas Obscura
WEBOct 14, 2022 · Discover Wichita State University Plane Crash Site in Silver Plume, Colorado: The remnants of a 1970 plane crash remain high in the Rocky Mountains.
Three generations later, the secrets of Wichita State's ... - ESPN
WEBOn Oct. 2, 1970, Wichita State lineman Mal Kimmel boarded a plane with his teammates for their game against Utah State. They never arrived. This is the story of the crash, and what happened...
Wichita State’s crash evokes moving memories 50 years later
WEBSep 30, 2020 · At Wichita State, there’s no longer a football team to honor those who died in the crash. Instead, their memories are preserved through families, teammates, friends and the school. One of the caretakers of that history is John Yeros, a wide receiver who was on the reserve plane.
Wichita State alumni reminisce about visiting the 1970 plane crash site
WEBSep 30, 2020 · Over the years, many hikers have trekked to the crash site of the plane that claimed the lives of 31 souls — including 14 members of the Wichita State University football team, 14 staff and boosters, and three crew members.
Remembering the 31 - Wichita State Athletics
WEBSep 14, 2020 · Every year on Oct. 2, Wichita State University remembers the victims of the 1970 plane crash in Colorado, a tragedy that took the lives of 31 people on the trip to a football game in Utah the next day.
Wichita State University Plane Crash - Colorado Encyclopedia
WEBIn early October 1970, a twin-engine aircraft carrying forty people associated with the Wichita State University football team crashed into Mt. Bethel along Colorado’s Continental Divide, killing thirty-one passengers.
50 years after deadly plane crash, Wichita State players and …
WEBSep 7, 2020 · Relatives and friends of the 31 people killed in a plane crash on Mount Trelease in Clear Creek County on October 2, 1970, hike to the crash site ahead of the 50th anniversary of the aviation...
How journalists remember 1970 WSU plane crash | Wichita State …
WEBSep 26, 2022 · Wichita State graduate Gabe Juhnke (top, with camera) co-produced a documentary on the 1970 football plane crash for KPTS in 2009. A marker on I-70 near the Eisenhower Tunnel is close to the crash site in Colorado.