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Apr 21, 1989
A vintage 1931 biplane piloted by John Denver is spun around by a gust of wind on the runway at the airport in Holbrook, Arizona. The plane is damaged, though Denver walks away uninjured
Sep 29, 1990
Murry Kellum, who wrote Alabama's "If You're Gonna Play In Texas (You Gotta Have A Fiddle In The Band)," dies in a plane crash
Mar 16, 1991
A plane crash outside of San Diego kills eight members of Reba McEntire's band and crew, including singer/songwriter Chris Austin, whose "Same Ol' Love" becomes a hit for Ricky Skaggs
Nov 6, 1992
Reba McEntire's plane makes an emergency landing when the nose gear is determined faulty. She boards another plane within 20 minutes and takes off from Nashville again for a sold-out show in Madison, Wisconsin
Aug 25, 1994
Jimmy Buffett's twin-engine plane crashes in the Maddaket Harbor near Nantucket, Massachusetts. Buffett is released by the hospital two hours later
Jan 29, 1996
Fiddler Tommy Ewing Wair dies when an F-14 fighter plane crashes into a Nashville home where he was visiting. He worked as a sideman for his brother-in-law, Stonewall Jackson, from 1960-1965
Oct 12, 1997
Singer/songwriter John Denver dies in a plane crash near Monterey, California, when the engine quits on the test plane he's piloting. Denver leaves a string of folk-tinged pop-country hits, including "Thank God I'm A Country Boy," "Take Me Home, Country Roads," "Annie's Song" and "Back Home Again"
Dec 17, 1999
A plane carrying Doug Stone slides off a snowy runway at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. No one is injured
Mar 7, 2000
Doug Stone is rushed to NorthCrest Medical Center in Springfield, Tennessee, after the small aircraft carrying him crashes. The singer suffers a broken ankle, a broken rib and a bruised kidney, but survives
Jan 27, 2001
Ten people associated with the Oklahoma State basketball team are killed in a plane crash near Boulder, Colorado. Oklahoma City station KXXY uses Diamond Rio's "One More Day" to create a tribute mixing TV soundbytes with the song
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