Jim Croce : Louisiana 1973 ( Final Show )
JIM CROCE
Northwestern
State University
Prather Coliseum
Natchitoches
Louisiana
* Recorded Just An Hour Before
His Untimely Death
TRACK LIST
Rapid Roy
Workin' at The Car Wash Blues
Operator
Roller Derby Queen
Lover's Cross
Thursday
Speedball Trucker
I Got a Name
Top Hat Bar and Grill
Bad, Bad , Leroy Brown
More Info on His Death Click Below
JIM CROCE DEATH
On Thursday, September 20, 1973,
during Croce's Life and Times tour
and the day before his ABC single
"I Got a Name" was released,
Croce, Muehleisen, and five others died
when their chartered Beechcraft E18S
crashed into a tree,
while taking off from
the Natchitoches Regional Airport
in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
Others killed
in the crash were
pilot
Robert N. Elliott,
comedian
George Stevens,
manager and
booking agent
Kenneth D. Cortose,
and
road manager
Dennis Rast.
Croce had just completed a concert
at Northwestern State University's
Prather Coliseum in Natchitoches
and was flying to Sherman, Texas,
for a concert at Austin College.
The plane crashed
an hour after the concert.
Jim Croce was
30 years old.
An investigation showed
the plane crashed
after clipping a pecan tree
at the end of the runway.
The pilot had failed to
gain sufficient altitude
to clear the tree and had
not tried to avoid it,
even though it was
the only tree in the area.
It was dark,
but there was a clear sky,
calm winds, and over
five miles of visibility with haze.
The report from the NTSB
]named the probable cause as
the pilot's failure to see the obstruction
because of his physical impairment
and the fog reducing his vision.
57-year-old Elliott suffered from
severe coronary artery disease
and had run three miles
to the airport from a motel.
He had an ATP Certificate,
14,290 hours total flight time
and 2,190 hours
in the Beech 18 type.
A later investigation
placed the sole blame
on pilot error due
to his downwind
takeoff into a "black hole"
severe darkness limiting
use of visual references.
Jim Croce was buried at
Haym Salomon Memorial Park
in Frazer, Pennsylvania.
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