Musical Groups
| Name | Nationality | Year | Description of Members | Flight/Aircraft | Location | Cause/Circumstances |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. Richardson | USA | 1959 | All three tourmates were killed, along with pilot | Beechcraft Bonanza | Clear Lake, Iowa, United States | CFIT; see The Day the Music Died |
| Bar-Kays | USA | 1967 | Four of six members, including Ronnie Caldwell and Phalon Jones; also killed was soul singer Otis Redding | Beechcraft Model 18 | Lake Monona, Madison, Wisconsin | Cause undetermined |
| Chase | USA | 1974 | All four band members were killed Bill Chase, Walter Clark, John Emma and Wally Yohn | Piper Twin Comanche | Jackson, Minnesota | CFIT during landing descent. |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd | USA | 1977 | Lead vocalist Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, and back-up singer Cassie Gaines | 1977 Convair 240 crash | Northeast of Gillsburg, Mississippi | Aircraft stalled due to fuel exhaustion during emergency landing attempt |
| Mamonas Assassinas | BRA | 1996 | All five members killed | Learjet 25 | Cantareira mountain range | CFIT |
| Fanfarekorps Koninklijke Nederlandse Landmacht | NED | 1996 | 23 out of 37 band members of the Royal Netherlands Army Fanfare were killed | Lockheed C-130 Hercules | Eindhoven Airport, Netherlands | Ingested birds in engine during approach. Known as Herculesramp |
| Passion Fruit | GER | 2001 | Two of the Eurodance trio perish; Maria Serrano Serrano and Nathalie van het Ende | Crossair Flight 3597 | Bassersdorf, Switzerland | CFIT; crashed in hills short of runway during landing approach |
| Reba McEntire Band | USA | 1991 | Guitarist Chris Austin, backup singer Paula Kaye Evans, bassist Terry Jackson, bandleader Kirk Cappello, guitarist Michael Thomas, drummer Tony Saputo, and keyboardist Joey Cigainero | British Aerospace BAe 125 | San Diego, California | Pilot's failure to maintain proper altitude and clearance over mountainous terrain, and the copilots failure to adequately monitor the progress of the flight |
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