![]() ![]() Twenty others onboard were badly injured. Singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and backup singer Cassie Gaines, plus the band’s road manager and the two pilots died in the crash. Forty years ago today, the band was flying from a show in Greenville, S.C., to the next stop on the tour, in Baton Rouge, La., when their chartered Convair CV-240 ran out of fuel and crashed in the Mississippi woods. They already were kings of the Southern rock scene, they’d added a new hotshot guitar player to the lineup and their new album, “Street Survivors,” had just been released. ![]() Forty years ago, things were looking up for the Jacksonville boys in Lynyrd Skynyrd. ![]()
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