Season ticket sales had dropped and just as the team was moving up into the NCAA’s prestigious Division I, McCutchan retired, at the age of 65.
THIS ONE THERE WERE NO ALIVE PEOPLE BUT YOU CAN HOPE, I FOUND BODIES ALL OVER THE PLACE AND MY HEART SANK.
Not only was the site remote, it was dark, and a thick fog shrouded any light offered by the thin sliver of moon. David Furr was the only team member who was not on board when the plane crashed. At Roberts Stadium, where the University of Evansville plays home basketball games, is a display case dedicated to the memory of the lost Aces. She needed to be sure that Maury had been on the plane. The plane’s engines started with no difficulties, and at 7:19 p.m., Air Indiana 216 was cleared into position on runway 18, where the pilots waited for a large plane to depart from an intersecting runway. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. It was clear by midnight that the Evansville community was in the midst of a great tragedy. Team statistician David Furr did not make the trip with the team that day. They were all buried in their hometowns. Althoff and his colleagues in the crime scene unit examined the victims, fingerprinting and photographing as they moved from body to body. Beyond his coaching success was McCutchan’s engaging personality. While he worked in his office on campus, the charter plane carrying the team clipped some trees near his home in Melody Hills.
“We thought that’d be more of a travesty than not,” Graves recalls. “It was sitting there like a little bonfire.” With the fire lighting the scene, Wolf and Timmel were stunned to see the huge tail-end of a DC-3 sticking up in the air. Wathen, who had moved to the subdivision with his family when he was 7, had watched the Melody Hills neighborhood grow. Please be polite. She asked the Knieses for their blessing to create a scholarship in his name.
Alex Ashlock Twitter Producer, Here & NowAlex Ashlock has been a producer for Here & Now since 2005. But two-weeks later, Furr and his 16-year-old brother were killed in a car accident after being hit by a drunk driver. All rights reserved. Welcome to our new and improved comments, which are for subscribers only. “Season tickets to the best seats,” Time noted, “were so hard to come by that die-hard fans fought over them in divorce settlements.”.
The only Purple Aces player who was not on the flight, freshman David Furr, was killed in a car accident two weeks later.Abrams, Jonathan (May 16
Evansville was and remains a small city. During the game, he was summoned to an office where he watched early news broadcasts of unconfirmed reports that the UE plane had crashed. The force of the impact sliced off the heels of co-pilot Ruiz’s shoes, which were on the control pedals of the aircraft. This was the scene near Evansville's Dress Regional Airport, Dec. 14, 1977, following the crash Tuesday night of a chartered DC-3 airliner in which 29 people perished. The bodies of co-pilot Gaston Ruiz, pilot Ty Van Pham, and National Jet Service owner Jim Stewart were recovered the day after the crash. Also among the victims were Willard Hartford, general manager, and James Martin Stewart, president, of National Jet Service of Indianapolis which owned the charter plane.
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The plane exploded and came to rest at the edge of a ravine, having traveled approximately 8,700 feet from takeoff on runway 18.
His co-pilot, Gaston Ruiz, a 35-year-old refugee from Cuba who moved to the United States in 1963, had logged more than 1,000 flight hours.
One crew ventured across the muddy, unpaved landscape and never found the wreckage. Outside, crowds of grief-stricken students and city residents gathered. “One thing I’ll always remember,” Wathen says, “is that shrill train whistle and red glow of the flare piercing through the stillness of that foggy night.”. The crash was reported by the national media, including Walter Cronkite on the CBS Nightly News, and people across the nation expressed sympathy. Junior college coach Dick Walters from the College of DuPage in suburban Chicago was hired as the Aces new head coach. UE paid for the funerals and offered the surviving siblings, widows, and children of the victims a scholarship to the university, redeemable throughout their lifetimes. After the plane’s initial impact, the wings were ripped off, the propellers torn from the engines, and most of the passengers were ejected, many still strapped in their seats, into the cold night. Sometime before midnight, an engine, one solitary rail car, and a caboose solemnly backed down the railroad track. It worked. 1977–78 Evansville Purple Aces men's basketball team (408 words) exact match in snippet view article find links to article assignments. David Furr, the lone member of the team who did not board Air Indiana Flight 216, died two weeks later in a car crash, meaning all the members of the team died during the 1977–78 season. Out of the ashes of a desiccated dream, we shall build a new basketball team, stronger, more valiant than ever before,” he said. In Eldorado, Illinois, the caskets of Mike Duff and Kevin Kingston were side by side on the gym floor where they had played. Some speculated the pilot may have realized there was a problem and was trying to return to the runway. The three crew members were the exception; the government required their autopsies as part of the crash investigation. "I actually glanced down on the ground and I saw an Aces duffel bag and that's when my heart sank," Wathen says. "Out of the agony of this hour we will rise.". The FAA rejected the recommendation, saying a requirement of access roads, already in place, was sufficient. It was a scene Wathen will never forget.
The plane assumed an extreme nose-high, tail-low position, climbing into the clouds and disappearing for an instant before reappearing a moment later, headed toward the ground. Of the four passengers who initially survived the crash, three died at the scene. The aircraft lost control and crashed shortly after lift-off. They had no idea what they were about to find. "I walk past the memorial to that team every single day, and every day I would see the names carved in the monument," he says. The only member of the Evansville team who was not on the plane that night was a young man named David Furr. I CALLED MY AUNT AND TOLD HER SINCE SHE WAS A TRUSTEE OF THE SCHOOL AND MY UNCLE A RETIRED FIREMAN. Among the dead were Coach Robert “Bobby” Watson; UE Athletic Business Manager Bob Hudson; UE Comptroller Charles Shike; Sports Information Director Gregory Knipping; popular radio announcer Marvin “Marv” Bates; and UE fans Maurice “Maury” King, the 33-year-old owner of Moutoux Furniture, and Charles Goad, 61, who owned Goad Equipment Co. According to newspaper reports, some families of the victims reached out-of-court settlements with National Jet Service. University officials chose Bobby Watson, a charismatic, hard-charging coach who’d run up a string of victories as an assistant coach at Oral Roberts University, to follow in McCutchan’s wake.
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