On the evening of November 14 , 1970 , the Thundering Herd football team , along with coaches and fans , were returning home to Huntington from Kinston , North Carolina . The team had just lost a game 17 – 14 against the East Carolina University Pirates at Ficklen Stadium in Greenville , North Carolina . The chartered Southern Airways Flight 932 crashed on approach to the Tri-State Airport after clipping trees just west of the runway and impacting , nose-first , into a hollow . All seventy-five people on board were killed , including 37 players and 5 coaches . 13 members of the team , as well as the members of the freshman football team , who were not eligible to play varsity under NCAA rules at that time , were not passengers
Southern Airways Flight 932
Southern Airways Flight 932
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