article_snippet: In the early morning hours of February 3, 1959, a small aircraft carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and
article_snippet: The Big Bopper" Richardson crashed a few miles from Mason City Municipal Airport, near Clear Lake, Iowa.
article_snippet: Pilot Roger Peterson also died in Buddy Holly plane crash.
highlights_snippet: Pilot error and snow were reasons stated for Buddy Holly plane crash .
  
highlights_snippet: An aviation enthusiast has new theories for crash that also killed the Big Bopper and Ritchie