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Jul 13, 2023 · Jim Reeves, a country and popular singer-songwriter, died in a Beechcraft Debonair crash near Nashville, Tennessee, on July 31, 1964. The aircraft encountered a thunderstorm and stalled after Reeves turned left instead of right to avoid it.
Jul 4, 2022 · The plane’s parts were buried in the ground due to the crash’s impact. Reeves and Dean Manuel’s bodies were found on the morning of August 2, after an intense search. Ernest Tubb and Marty Robbins were among those who joined the search operation.
It shows the scene of the plane crash that killed country music singer Jim Reeves and his piano player, Dean Manuel, on the outskirts of Nashville on the afternoon of July 31, 1964.
On July 31, 1964, Reeves and his business partner and manager Dean Manuel (also the pianist of Reeves's backing group, the Blue Boys) left Batesville, Arkansas, en route to Nashville in a single-engine Beechcraft Debonair aircraft, N8972M, with Reeves at the controls. The two had secured a deal on some real estate.
NASHVILLE, Aug. 2 (AP) —Jim Reeves, 39 years old, the country‐music singer, and a companion were found dead in the wreckage of a private, single‐engine plane 10 miles south of here today. Mr....
Jul 31, 2019 · This day in 1964: Country Music Hall of Fame member, Jim Reeves, died when his single-engine Beechcraft plane crashed near Nashville, Tennessee. Reeves and his business partner and manager Dean Manuel was flying on their way to Nashville.
Country western singer Jim Reeves (39) flew into a brief but intense thunderstorm at 16.51 hours. A minute later the plane crashed and he was killed when he apparently lost visual reference with the ground and experienced spatial disorientation on approach to Nashville.
