On Saturday, Nov. 14, 1970, a plane carrying members of the Marshall University Thundering Herd football team and coaching staff crashed in West Virginia killing all 75 people on board and plunging the university and community into grief.
The chartered Southern Airways DC-9 was returning from a game the team played earlier in the day against East Carolina University in North Carolina. Marshall lost, 17-14.
The plane crashed while trying to land at Tri-State Airport in Kenova, W.Va.
Bulldozers plow through wreckage of the DC9 chartered jet that crashed in Kenova, W.V., Nov. 15, 1970. Aboard the plane were the Marshall University football team, coaching staff and boosters.
According to history.com, on the plane were 37 football players, head coach Rick Tolley, team doctors, the university athletic director and 25 football boosters from the Huntington, W.Va. community.
Many of us are familiar with the Marshall University story from the 2006 movie “We Are Marshall.”
