On this day (March 5) in 1963, country singers Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas, and pilot Randy Hughes died in a plane crash near Camden, Tennessee. They were returning to Nashville from a ...
On March 5, 1963, country music lost one of its fastest rising stars and one of its most iconic voices when Patsy Cline died at the age of 30 in a plane crash while flying from a show in Kansas City, ...
On Mar. 5, 1963, the plane carrying country stars Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hawkshaw Hawkins crashed in Tennessee, killing everyone on board. Unfortunately, the crash was reportedly due to the ...
Editor's note: The crash that killed Patsy Cline happened March 5, 1963. This story recounting the tragedy and its impact in Nashville was originally published on the 53rd anniversary of her death.