Plane Crash

After a plane crash killed most of the Marshall University football team 50 years ago, the simplest choice for school leaders would have been to drop the sport altogether. It was the worst sports disaster in U.S. history. But school officials couldn't bring themselves to eliminate the team. From the 75 lives lost, the program slowly rebuilt and eventually triumphed. A half-century later, those who lived through the tragedy remember the feeling that they had to keep playing. On Friday, the university will mark the anniversary of the crash by awarding posthumous degrees to the players who were killed.

On April 8, 1951, a C-47 transport plane crashed near Charleston’s Kanawha Airport, which is now Yeager Airport, killing 21 members of the Air National…

Labor leader Walter Reuther was killed in a plane crash on May 9, 1970. He was 62.Reuther was born in Wheeling in 1907. His father, Valentine, was…

The crew of a propeller plane carrying UPS cargo made no distress call before the small aircraft landed hard enough to gouge the runway and break into…

Authorities say a pilot was injured when a small plane crashed in northern West Virginia.Marion County emergency management director Chris McIntire says…

Two fatalities have been confirmed in a small plane crash that occurred around 4 p.m. Friday near Route 60 in Eastern Kanawha County. Investigators from…

The Marshall and Huntington communities remember the 75 that lost their lives in a place crash on November 14, 1970, the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame…

Marshall's football team will wear the number 75 on its helmets at its next game in memory of the victims of the 1970 team's plane crash. Marshall (6-3,…