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Eagle coverage of the 1970 WSU plane crash

The 1970 Wichita State football helmet belonging to Marvin Brown, one of 31 people killed in the Oct. 2 plane crash near the Continental Divide in Colorado.
The 1970 Wichita State football helmet belonging to Marvin Brown, one of 31 people killed in the Oct. 2 plane crash near the Continental Divide in Colorado. The Wichita Eagle

Remembering the plane crash

Photo gallery of the plane crash and 1970 Shockers

1970 coverage

WSU Grid Team Plane Crashes; 29 of 40 Aboard Feared Dead

1980 coverage

Picking Up the Pieces Still Part of Life For Survivors 10 Years After WSU Crash

1990 coverage

A beautiful fall day ... then an ominous sound

Those left behind mourned and built new lives

Pilot steadfast in denying fault: ‘Someone needed to be blamed’

The years drive a wedge between survivors linked by tragedy

1995 coverage

‘What a beautiful place to die’

2000 coverage

Living a miracle

From the ashes

2005 coverage

‘It is time to heal’

1970 healing process began on a Saturday night in Little Rock

Playing with pain

2010 coverage

Families never lose memories

Daughter grew up without her ‘da-da’

Brown was Solomon’s favorite son

Complex connection for WSU survivors

Former Utah State player still feels linked to Shockers

2014 coverage

Former Wichita State football player rides to remember friends who died in 1970 plane crash

2015 coverage

Bob Seaman kept Shocker football going in the wake of 1970’s tragic plane crash

This story was originally published September 28, 2016 at 11:54 AM with the headline "Eagle coverage of the 1970 WSU plane crash."

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