Airplane Crash - Roanoke, Virginia 05/28/1971
Details of airplane crash/ shootdown - Roanoke, Virginia
| Date | 05/28/1971 |
| Time | 11:08 |
| Location | Roanoke, Virginia |
| Operator | Private |
| Route | Atlanta, GA - Martinsville, VA |
| Type | Aero Commander 680E |
| Registration | N601JJ |
| Cn/In | 491-161 |
| Aboard | 6 |
| Fatalities | 6 |
| Ground | 0 |
| Summary | The flight crashed into the side of a mountain during a thunderstorm. Continued VFR flight into adverse weather conditions. Entered instrument weather at too low an altitude to clear mountain. World War II hero and western movie star Audie Murphy, 46, killed. |
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