WTOC-TV - The Day the Music Died. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash on this day in 1959. The plane crashed in a snow
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![The Day the Music Died” is the day when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and JP Richardson all died in a plane crash. But none of them would have been on that plane The Day the Music Died” is the day when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and JP Richardson all died in a plane crash. But none of them would have been on that plane](https://preview.redd.it/roudwg48uuu61.png?auto=webp&s=c9b471a9e74cc45d075accdb293135ba8c028d94)
The Day the Music Died” is the day when Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and JP Richardson all died in a plane crash. But none of them would have been on that plane
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Plane crash that killed Buddy Holly set to be re-investigated after 'new factors' emerge on why the aircraft went down | Daily Mail Online
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