A Deadly Combination
On October 20, 1977, after a performance in Greenville, South Carolina, the band boarded the Convair CV-240 bound for Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The band didn’t plan on keeping the plane for long as they weren’t pleased with the sub-par standards of the plane and crew. As it turns out, Aerosmith’s band management had considered the same plane for their own tour. But they passed on calling this plane their own.
Source: Wikipedia
According to the band’s autobiography, Zunk Buker, their chief of flight operations manager, was inspecting the small plane (which was produced from 1947-1954) and noticed the flight crew passing around liquor bottles while on the plane. The combination of a poorly-built aircraft (with a thinner fuselage and smaller wingspan than any of its kind) an unacceptable flight crew was ultimately fatal.