Sentences with phrase «in a plane crash aged»

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story - On February 3rd, 1959, the man who changed the face of popular music tragically died in a plane crash aged 22.

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The pop singer first attracted wide attention at age 15 in a tragic twist: He filled in after a plane crash killed four people, including rock stars Richie Valens, Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper.

Washington (AFP)- An aging US military cargo plane carrying nine troops was destroyed in a fiery crash Wednesday as it made its final scheduled flight before being mothballed, officials said.

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Nearly 14 months ago, she and her husband Jim (Anthony Edwards) lost their son Sam (Christopher Kovaleski) in a plane crash that killed several elementary - aged children.

Directed by Luis Valdez, «La Bamba» (the film draws its name from Valens» signature song) charts Valens» meteoric rise as a musician and his tragic death at age 17 in a 1959 plane crash, along with Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper.

Rusty is a pilot for an airline called «Econo - Air,» and in the opening scene, he's given his hapless nice - guy props by an aged colleague who's clearly suffering from dementia, and who nearly crashes the plane when Rusty leaves the cockpit for a bathroom break.

The great American sculptor Robert Smithson, who died in a plane crash in 1973 at the age of 35, was as interested in the history of the Earth as he was in the history of art.

Belgian - born artist Michel Majerus died tragically in 2002, at the age of 35, in a plane crash — after which the files for this publication were salvaged from his hard drive.

(Smithson, who hired Matta - Clark as an installation assistant for the Cornell University art museum's landmark 1969 «Earth Art» exhibition, was killed in a plane crash while scouting sites for an earthwork in Texas at thirty - five, the same age at which his protégé would die.)

Born in Luxembourg, Majerus lived and worked in Berlin until a 2002 plane crash tragically ended his life at the age of thirty - five.

Smithson (1938 - 73), whose death in a plane crash at age 35 stunned the art world, was a pivotal member of a generation that included Richard Serra, Eva Hesse and Carl Andre.

Straddling the movements of minimalism and land art, Smithson, who died in a plane crash at the age of 35, had a profound impact on the cultural landscape that resonates to this day.