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Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 11:27 pm
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bmcmillin wrote:
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The Randy Rhoads accident also had a "Pilot error"... the pilot had lost his license just day or days before the accident.


Although tragic as it was, Randy Rhoads had the pilot "buzz" the tour bus. They did twice but on the third attempt the wing clipped the tour bus causing the crash killing Rhoads, Rachel Youngblood and the pilot.

Stupidity killed them more than anything.


That's not what I've heard--That it was Randy getting the pilot to do the buzzing. Yes the plane buzzed the bus. Just wondering where you heard he was the one who suggested the buzzing.

There was stupidity involved, but whose may never be definitively known. What I heard is that the buzzing was done to freak out Randy as much as the people on the bus. That was in newspaper reports following investigations into the crash.

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01GT eibach wrote:
I forget ... who bet with Buddy Holly to get on the plane and lost, having to ride to the next gig by bus? Somebody really famous...


Actually Buddy chartered the plane since the heater in the tour bus was busted. He was going to be on the plane with his lead guitar player, Tommy Allsup and his bass player, Waylon Jennings. The Big Bopper switched his place on the bus with Jennings, and Allsup lost his seat on the plane over a coin toss with Ritchie Valens. Valens won the toss. A fictionalized scene of the fateful coin toss is shown in the film "La Bamba."

The last time that Jennings saw Buddy, Buddy jokingly said that he hoped that Jennings would freeze on the bus. Jennings responded by saying he hoped the plane would crash. That statement haunted Jennings for years afterward.

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