141K views · 6.9K reactions | October 20th 1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash in Amite County Mississippi killing Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines. | The Virginia Flaggers | Facebook

Forty-eight years ago, on October 20, 1977, the world lost members of Lynyrd Skynyrd in a tragic plane crash that forever altered the course of Southern rock. Their chartered Convair CV-240 ran out of fuel and crashed into a swamp near Gillsburg, Mississippi, while traveling from Greenville, South Carolina, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The accident claimed the lives of lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, backup vocalist Cassie Gaines, assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, and bo