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