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Black & Gold: Remembering The WSU Plane Crash

The story of the 1970 Wichita State University football team plane crash.

Aired 10/02/2009 | Rating NR

Black & Gold: Remembering The WSU Plane Crash

Documentaries

Black & Gold: Remembering The WSU Plane Crash

Special | 57m 53s

The story of the 1970 Wichita State University football team plane crash.

On October 2, 1970, two charter planes carrying the Wichita State University football team left Denver heading for Logan, Utah. One plane deviated from the charted course and crashed into the side of a mountain. This powerful documentary recounts the story of the tragedy that forever altered the Wichita community, and the subsequent journey of healing almost 40 years later.

Aired 10/02/2009 | Rating NR

Documentaries is a local public television program presented by PBS Kansas Channel 8

Delos V. Smith Senior Citizens Foundation & Center Fidelity Bank Fahnestock K.T. Wiedemann Foundation, Inc.

Documentaries

Black & Gold: Remembering The WSU Plane Crash

Special | 57m 53s

On October 2, 1970, two charter planes carrying the Wichita State University football team left Denver heading for Logan, Utah. One plane deviated from the charted course and crashed into the side of a mountain. This powerful documentary recounts the story of the tragedy that forever altered the Wichita community, and the subsequent journey of healing almost 40 years later.

Aired 10/02/2009 | Rating NR

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Documentaries is a local public television program presented by PBS Kansas Channel 8

Delos V. Smith Senior Citizens Foundation & Center Fidelity Bank Fahnestock K.T. Wiedemann Foundation, Inc.

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