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The accident of Air Indiana Flight 216 occurred on December 13, 1977, at 19:22 CST, when a Douglas DC-3, registration N51071, carrying the University of Evansville basketball team, crashed on takeoff at Evansville Regional Airport. in Evansville, Indiana. The aircraft lost control and crashed shortly after takeoff. The plane was en route to Nashville International Airport, taking the team to play the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders in Murfreesboro. as well as an overloaded luggage compartment. The NTSB report said the plane might have been able to stay aloft if only one of the problems existed. As it was, the extra baggage shifted the plane's center of gravity to the rear end, and the locked rudder and aileron made it impossible to control the overweight aircraft. The only Purple Aces member not killed in the crash was 18-year-old rookie David Furr; he was out for the season with an ankle injury and was therefore not on the plane that day. But just two weeks after the accident, Furr and his younger brother Byron were killed in a car crash near Newton, Illinois, leaving the entire 1977 Evansville team dead. A memorial was built at the University of Evansville known as "Weeping Basketball". "The names of the players who were killed, including Furr, are engraved on stone slabs. (The final name on the monument is that of Charles Goad of the Goad Equipment Company, invited on the flight by his friend Bob Hudson.) An excerpt is also engraved. from the eulogy delivered by school president Wallace Graves at a memorial service: "Out of the agony of this hour, we shall rise."
Death is indeed directed. in this case, David Ruff did not die on the plane because his death and that of his brother were planned after that. this is the pattern of death.
Death is indeed directed. in this case, David Ruff did not die on the plane because his death and that of his brother were planned after that. this is the pattern of death.
