Three members of the rock group, both pilots and another person died in the plane crash. They are vocalist Leslie Hawkins, guitarist Larkin Allen Collins, Gene Odom and Paul Welch. Four persons at University Medical Center in Jackson are all listed as stable. Bill Sykes and Bill Powell are expected to be discharged soon, a hospital spokesman said. At Baptist Hospital in Jackson, guitarist Gary Rossington was said to be in stable but in intensive care, while Mark Howard was movedįrom the intensive care unit to a private room and is listed in stable condition. Still in treatment at Southwest hospital, all listed as improved, were Leon Wilkeson, the groups bass guitarist, who was still in intensive care but "doing better" Joe Osborne, Don Kretzschman, Kevin Elson, Ron Eckerman, Steve Lawler, Clayton Johnson, Craig Reed and James Bryce. Two of the survivors who had been hospitalized, Mark Frank and Kenneth Peden, discharged during the weekend from Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center. Of the survivors, five were listed in improved condition today, six were stable, and two were expected to be discharged soon, possibly tomorrow. The group was to perform at Louisiana State University Friday night. The plane crashed eight miles south of the airports runway, minutes away from its destination in Baton Rouge. The pilot only moments before had radioed the flightĬontrol center in Houston that he was having fuel problems and had been told the nearest airport was at McComb. The plane carrying the Lynyrd Skynyrd rock group and their road crew, crashed shortly before 7pm in a wooded area of Amite County. Investigators spent the weekend interviewing the survivors and witnesses who were on the ground at the time of the crash. He added that the drugs were "in bottles and weren't labeled, some was prescription medicine and some was just old drugstore medicine.". He declined to say how much money had been recovered. Kasputin has said that the plane ran out of gas as a "distinct possibility." Rumors that drugs and money were found aboard the plane are false, said Amite County Sheriff Norman Travis.He said money and bottles of drugs were found "scattered in different places" at Investigators also asked to see complete records on the 30-plus-year-old Convair 240 and on both pilots, as efforts to determine what caused the crash continues. Autopsies were performed Friday on the bodies of the pilots. Rudolph Kasputin, director of the National Transportation Safety Board team combing the crash site, along with investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration, said the planes engines, fuel gauge and other equipment were removed Sunday for inspection. Several of the survivors of the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash at Gillsburg were reported in improved condition today while investigators continued to inspect the wreckage of the twin-engine aircraft that carried six persons to their deaths and injured 20 others Thursday night. A story originally published October 24, 1977, just days after the crash
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