List-O-Rama: Plane Crashes

Barenaked Ladies singer/guitarist Ed Robertson walked away from a plane crash on Sunday afternoon in Ontario's cottage country. While Robertson's plane was totalled, he and the other three people aboard his plane survived. Other musicians have not been so lucky. Not to be morbid, but here is a list of musicians who haven't walked away from plane crashes:

Patsy Cline
Cline reportedly told Loretta Lynn she was convinced she was going to die in the months before her fatal plane crash on March 3, 1963. On that day, she boarded a plane leaving Kansas City, Kan. for home in Nashville, Tenn. in bad weather. When the plane crashed, she died with its pilot and country singers Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas, who were also aboard.

John Denver
Denver, a pilot with over 2,700 hours of flight experience, died when the plane he was flying crashed off the coast of California in 1997.

Buddy Holly
Holly's 1959 death at age 22 has become known as "The Day The Music Died" after singer/songwriter Don McLean dubbed it such. Holly chartered a Beechcraft Bonanza (the same make of plane in which Randy Rhoads would later die) on Feb. 2, 1959 and he boarded it with Richie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson. All three, along with their pilot, were killed when the plane crashed a few minutes after it took off.

Ricky Nelson
Nelson was on a comeback tour in the U.S. when he and his band boarded a plane in Guntersville, Ala. headed for Dallas, Texas on New Year's Eve 1985. It crashed, killing him and six others.

Otis Redding
On Dec. 10, 1967, Redding and four members of his backing band, The Bar-Kays, were killed when their plane crashed into Lake Monona in Madison, Wisc.

Randy Rhoads
On March 19, 1982, Rhoads and the rest of the members of Ozzy Osbourne's band were traveling from a show in Knoxville, Tenn. to a show in Orlando, Fla. They made a stop at a bus company owner's house in Leesburg, Fla. Rhoads, the bus driver and hairdresser Rachel Youngblood went for an impromptu flight in a plane the bus driver had acquired without permission. They banked over top of their tour bus two times, but on the third time the wing clipped the top and crashed. All three people aboard the plane were killed. Rhoads was just 25.

Ronnie Van Zant and Cassie and Steve Gaines
These three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd died when a plane carrying the full band from Greenville, S.C. to Baton Rouge, La. crashed in Mississippi. The band's assistant road manager and the plane's pilot and co-pilot were also killed.