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 (ISO) in Kinston, North Carolina, to Huntington Tri-State Airport/Milton J. Ferguson Field (HTS) near Kenova and Ceredo, West Virginia. At 7:36 pm on November 14, 1970, the aircraft crashed into a hill just short of the Tri-State Airport, killing all 75 people on board – 37 members of the Marshall University football team, 5 coaches, 7 staff members, 21 boosters, 2 pilots, 2 flight attendants, and a charter coordinator. The team was returning home after a 17–14 loss to the East Carolina Pirates at Ficklen Stadium in Greenville, North Carolina. The accident is the deadliest tragedy for any sports team in US history. It was the second college football team plane crash in a little over a month, after a crash on October 2nd that killed 14 Wichita State players, head coach Ben Wilson, and 16 others.

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