An interview with a plane crash survivor ........

Gene Odom intimately talks one on one about the final minutes before the prop plane went down killing his best friend and the other members of Lynyrd Skynyrd: Steve, Cassie and Dean.
NTSB findings here...http://www.prop-liners.com/lynyard%20skynyrd.htm

*note from this film maker- My cousin was scheduled to be the pilot for this flight. At the last moment he was called away to take some Senators up to Canada for a fishing trip. My cousin has a clean safety record of 40 years, 10 of it before that day..... if he would have gotten on that plane it would have never left the ground.

Video by Tony Beazley ©copyright 2003

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Lynyrd
• Skynyrd
• ronnie
• van
• zant
• steve
• gaines
• gary
• rossington

[wozjj]

Genes account is the most accurate/honest I have heard. He is trying to satisfy our unsatiable voyeristic morbid thirst for info. Lets respect him.He talks about some dude not scratched not Pyle who had ribs out. Who cares if he got the location of Ronnies bump wong? Hes doin his best. The NTSB report says the "prob cause was "..crew inattention to fuel supply..fuel exaustion..engine malfunctiony resulted in higher than normal fuel consumption." thanks Gene/Tony from Australia

[scottocchipinti]

In this video ,Gene is still mad and upset at himself for not speaking up in Greenville. That's a heavy burden to carry, seeing that Destiny has many forms.

[wozjj]

@TonyBeazley I found it Goldmine magazine May 29 1992:Goldmine "Is it true that Ronnie actually considered finding a replacement vocalist?" Rossington " He was gonna manage us and get either JVZ or Paul Rodgers or Ronnie Justo (Atlanta Rythm Section) to sing but then me and Allen said Hey if you aint gonna do it with us, we quit because this is it, me you and him so Ronnie went 'Okay'. Anyway, that was a thought or notion that lasted a week or two."

[wozjj]

@TonyBeazley I will dredge the memory and see if I can come up with it for you

[TonyBeazley]

@wozjj Wow...I'd like to find that interview out there somewhere... yeah I thought it might have been Johnny at least......but Ronnies voice was giving out which was a major reason he wanted to stop singing..

[wozjj]

@TonyBeazley I heard a Rossington interview where he stated that Ronnie had nominated johnny as the singer with him as manager. gary says he and Allan said well if you quit, we will and it was never mentioned again.

[wozjj]

@amcmason2006 Apparently, Steve did not die immediately and was removed from the plane and then comforted by a woman. He died in her arms and apparently his internal chest injuries were caused by the table he was sitting at in the plane in the front lounge are striking him. My source from this was an interview by a relative of the woman nursing him. RIP

[TonyBeazley]

Plus Ronnie had already booked some time to go record a country album with Waylon Jennings...now that would have been super cool...

[TonyBeazley]

he was hurt bad enough but still went for help....and Gary might have been with him.... everyone was in shock and half unconscious and freaked out...

[TonyBeazley]

@amcmason2006 Don't believe all the stuff you see on the civil wars on VH1...thanks to the assholes at VH1 nobody is allowed to do a documentary on Skynyrd again...reason why ours was stopped in its tracks... I've never heard Ronnie called "shorty"... but then I sure as hell would not say that to his face if he were alive...lol ....talk about ass whooping...damn!!!!!

[TonyBeazley]

@amcmason2006 The stories of shorty I do not know so well...so I can't comment.. Certain people just do not like Artie and theres alot of people who like to point fingers and bash people from behind a keyboard I've never ever seen 1 person say anything to his face.... Ronnie had plans to become manager next album and let Gaines sing more songs, as far as a lead singer I've never heard who was going to replace him.

[TonyBeazley]

@amcmason2006 no it is not......