The Day the Music Died: Musicians Who Fell from the Sky

Musicians live hectic lives and often find themselves in the air flying from this concert to that concert all year round. And while planes are considered overwhelmingly safer than cars, the consequences of an aviation accident are much deadlier than a road crash.

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Sadly, a freakishly large number of musicians have lost their lives diving nose-deep into either an ocean, a mountain, a forest, or even some farmer’s grazing land. What’s creepier is that a lot of them had premonitions that something bad was about to go down.

Here’s a list of the many unfortunate days in which the music sadly died.