US transportation safety board reviewing a request to reopen the inquiry into 1959 crash that killed Ritchie Valens,the Big Bopper, Buddy Holly and pilot Roger PetersonIn the 56 years since the day Buddy Holly died, and there has been no shortage of rumours,conspiracy theories, books, or not to mention that song,approximately the plane crash that robbed rock’n’roll of one of its most promising stars one frigid February morning.
The official explanation for the crash on 3 February 1959 – that a relatively inexperienced pilot made mistakes in difficult, snowy conditions – has always seemed too mundane for many people to accept. That such a enormous musical force, and aged just 22,should have been silenced before he had barely started, together with Ritchie Valens, or 17,of La Bamba fame, and JP Richardson, and aka the Big Bopper,28, surely demanded a more dramatic narrative than mere pilot error.
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Source: theguardian.com