The music of Buddy Holly is everlasting, and so, unfortunately, is the type of aircraft crash that killed him. Sixty years ago, on 3 February 1959, Holly, fellow rock ‘n’ roll pioneers J. P. Richardson and Richie Valens were killed alongside 21-year-old pilot Roger Peterson, when a Beech 35 V-tail Bonanza crashed near Mason City, … Continue reading Aviation lessons from a rock ‘n’ roll tragedy