In clear and calm weather in Colorado at 1:14 p.m. MDT on Friday, October 2, 1970, a chartered Martin 4-0-4 airliner crashed into a mountain eight miles west of Silver Plume. Operated by Golden Eagle
A Martin 4-0-4, circa 1981, in Florida Airlines livery.
Roadside memorial in Colorado on Interstate 70, milepost 217
A forested hiking path winds through trees with fallen logs crossing the trail, leading through a dense woodland.
Pieces of metal wreckage lie scattered on a forested slope at the Wichita State University football team plane crash site.
Southern Airways Flight 932
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Southern Airways Flight 932 was a chartered Southern Airways twin engine McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 domestic United States commercial jet flight from Stallings Field in Kinston, North Carolina, to Hunt
Wichita State University football team plane crash
…discontinued varsity football after the 1986 season. The accident was the first of two college-football charter aircraft to crash in 1970; six weeks later, Southern Airways Flight 932, carrying the Marshall University team, crashed in Huntington, West Virginia as the team returned from a game in North Carolina. Out of the 31 victims…
Wreckage of the aircraft
A Southern Airways Douglas DC-9-31, similar to the one involved in the accident
Memorial at Spring Hill Cemetery in Huntington, West Virginia to honor the victims of the 1970 plane crash
Memorial Fountain on campus outside Memorial Student Center