Clippersfan86
05-26-2020, 12:56 PM
https://twitter.com/bballbreakdown/status/1265322732213825539
"While editing my Jerry Sloan vid, I discovered a crazy story: He had taken the Evansville head coaching job in '77, quit after 5 days, later that season the whole team died in a tragic plane crash. The 1 player to survive (didn't travel due to injury) died in car crash 2wks later"
Has anyone heard this!? This is insane. Now I want to study this more.
Edit: More information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Indiana_Flight_216
The only member of the Purple Aces who did not die in the crash was David Furr; he was out for the season with an ankle injury and thus was not on the plane that day. But just two weeks after the crash, Furr and his younger brother Byron were killed in a car accident near Newton, Illinois, leaving the entire 1977 Evansville team dead.[2]
"While editing my Jerry Sloan vid, I discovered a crazy story: He had taken the Evansville head coaching job in '77, quit after 5 days, later that season the whole team died in a tragic plane crash. The 1 player to survive (didn't travel due to injury) died in car crash 2wks later"
Has anyone heard this!? This is insane. Now I want to study this more.
Edit: More information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Indiana_Flight_216
The only member of the Purple Aces who did not die in the crash was David Furr; he was out for the season with an ankle injury and thus was not on the plane that day. But just two weeks after the crash, Furr and his younger brother Byron were killed in a car accident near Newton, Illinois, leaving the entire 1977 Evansville team dead.[2]