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Geoffrey Himes, Crawdaddy!, October 1996

ON OCTOBER 20th, 1977, the single-engine prop plane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed into a swamp in Gillsburg, Mississippi, killing the band's lead singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Steve Gaines.

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