Road crew member Steve Lawler, who suffered severe contusions and facial lacerations, was taken to the hospital in a pickup with a camper top. Victims were taken to the hospital in McComb, Mississippi by ambulances and other vehicles. Security manager Gene Odom was seriously burned on his arm and face and lost the sight in one eye as a result of an emergency flare on board the plane that was activated during the crash. Leslie Hawkins sustained a concussion, broke her neck in three places and had severe facial lacerations. Gary Rossington broke both his arms and both his legs in the crash, and took many months to recuperate. Wilkeson suffered severe internal injuries, including a punctured lung, and had most of his teeth knocked out. Allen Collins suffered two cracked vertebrae in his neck, and both Collins and Leon Wilkeson nearly had arms amputated as a result of crash injuries. Medical personnel arrived and began to ferry out the injured and the dead. Video of a barechested Pyle at the 1979 Volunteer Jam does not show evidence of a gunshot wound. Pyle claimed in a February 2007 appearance on Howard Stern's Sirius radio program that Mote had shot him Mote has always denied shooting the drummer. Varying accounts have Mote either firing a warning shot into the air or actually shooting Pyle in the shoulder - no report is completely reliable. The three injured men hiked some distance from the crash site, through swampy woods, and finally flagged down farmer Johnny Mote, who had come to investigate. Other band members were injured, some very seriously.ĭrummer Artimus Pyle crawled out of the plane wreckage with several broken ribs, but was ambulatory, as were road crew members Kenneth Peden Jr. The crash killed singer/songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist/vocalist Steve Gaines, vocalist Cassie Gaines, assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary and co-pilot William Gray. A chartered Convair 240, N55VM, carrying the band between shows from Greenville, South Carolina to LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana crashed near a forest in McComb, Mississippi. Several members of the band died in a plane crash that occurred on October 20, 1977, three days after the release of Street Survivors.
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