2007-02-11 04:56:02 · 16 answers · asked by Robert M 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
The Big Bopper and Richie Valens
2007-02-11 05:03:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Following the February 2, 1959 performance at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, Buddy Holly chartered a Beechcraft Bonanza to take him and his new Crickets band (Tommy Allsup, Carl Bunch and Waylon Jennings) to Fargo, North Dakota. Carl Bunch did not take the flight as he was hospitalized for frostbite three days earlier. J.P. Richardson, "The Big Bopper" came down with the flu and didn't feel comfortable on the bus, so Jennings gave his plane seat to him. Ritchie Valens had never flown on a small plane and requested Allsup's seat. They flipped a coin, Valens called heads and won the toss. The four-passenger Beechcraft Bonanza took off in extremely cold but otherwise good flying weather at around 1:05 A.M. but crashed only a few minutes after takeoff. The wreckage was discovered several hours later by the plane's owner, Jerry Dwyer, some 8 miles distant from the airport, on the property of Albert Juhl. The crash killed Holly, Valens, Richardson, and the 21-year-old pilot, Roger Peterson, leaving Holly's pregnant bride, Maria Elena Holly, a widow (she miscarried soon after).
While theories yet abound as to the exact cause of the crash that killed Buddy Holly, an official determination of pilot error was rendered by the Civil Aeronautics Board (one of the predecessors of the Federal Aviation Administration).
Courtesy of www.wikipedia.com
2007-02-11 06:06:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Richy Valens. The plane crashed in Clearlake Iowa
2007-02-11 05:00:40 · answer #3 · answered by calif.sun 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Big Bopper was the stage name of a man by the name of JP Richardson. Also Richie Valens died on the plane as well.
2007-02-11 06:35:05 · answer #4 · answered by Karli P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valence
2007-02-12 21:19:50 · answer #5 · answered by jammydodger 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valence
2007-02-11 04:59:19 · answer #6 · answered by Sir Sidney Snot 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ritchie Vallens and the Big Bopper
2007-02-11 04:59:08 · answer #7 · answered by MKBrown 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The big bopper
2007-02-11 05:33:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
also killed was the Big Bopper !! 3 months later my husband
died , he was a great fan... the was another who you will
get to know on your question.. I will look and learn..thank you !!
2007-02-11 06:27:30 · answer #9 · answered by landgirl60 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
theres a film out called la bamba with richie valens in
2007-02-11 05:01:30 · answer #10 · answered by welshwalesdragon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋