The airplane took off from Twinwood Airfield, about 50 miles north of London, en route to Paris, where Major Miller, 40, was going to make arrangements to bring his Army band to the continent to entertain American troops. The popular swing-era bandleader disappeared over the English Channel on December 15, 1944, while a passenger on a single-engine UC-64-A Norseman. Singer Patsy Cline, who was killed in a crash of a Piper Comanche in 1963 (from the Autumn 2022 issue of Aviation History), was neither the first nor the last popular musician to die in an airplane crash. Five people are killed, and four survive, including former NASA chief Sean O’Keefe.Celebrities Who Died in Plane Crashes, From Glenn Miller to Aaliyah Close Stevens is killed in a plane crash near Dillingham, Alaska. Wellstone, his wife, daughter, three staff members, and two pilots are killed when their small plane crashes in Eveleth, Minnesota.Īug– Former Alaska Sen. He is elected after his death and his widow is appointed to take his seat. Carnahan, his son and an aide are killed when their small plane crashes in bad weather. A US Air Force jetliner carrying Brown and American business executives crashes into a mountain in Croatia, killing all 35 people aboard. Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned turboprop plane crashes into a grain silo while trying to make an emergency landing near Dubuque, Iowa.Īp– US Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. Tower, his daughter and 21 other people, including NASA astronaut Manley “Sonny” Carter Jr., are killed in a commuter plane crash near Brunswick, Georgia.Īp– South Dakota Gov. A collision between a plane and a helicopter kills Heinz, a three-term Republican senator and heir to the Heinz food fortune.Īp– Texas Sen. Pilot error in hazy conditions is ruled the probable cause of the crash.Īp– Pennsylvania Sen. Smith is a passenger on a Cessna 152 that crashes into woods in southeastern Mississippi. Leland, a Texas Democrat who chairs the House Select Committee on Hunger, is killed when his plane crashes during a trip to inspect relief efforts in Ethiopia.Īug– Mississippi Rep. At the time, Waltermire is a Republican gubernatorial candidate.Īug– Texas Rep. Waltermire is aboard a twin-engine plane that crashes as it approaches Helena’s airport in light snow. McDonald is killed when Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Russian fighter.Īp– Montana Secretary of State Jim Waltermire (R). He was en route to a victory celebration after winning the state’s Democratic senate nomination. Litton is killed in a plane crash in northwest Missouri. Pettis Roberson, replaces him in the House five days later.Īug– Missouri Rep. The aircraft crashes into a mountain near Banning, California. Pettis, a former military pilot, dies while flying his private plane. Collins’ widow, Cardiss Collins, succeeds her husband in the House.įebru– California Rep. Collins is killed when a United Airlines jetliner plane crashes on approach to Chicago’s Midway Airport. The wreckage is never found.ĭecem– Illinois Rep. Both are aboard a plane that vanishes from the radar in bad weather over Alaska. Octo– House Majority Leader Hale Boggs, Louisiana (D) and Rep. Nutter dies in a plane crash during a snowstorm. Snell dies in a plane crash during stormy weather near Klamath Falls, Oregon.ġ962 – Montana Governor Donald Nutter (R). Sweet is killed in an airplane accident in Broome County, New York. This is a list of prominent American politicians killed in plane crashes.
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