MENDOTA- Carol L. Swope, 72, of Mendota passed away Aug. 27, 2017 in Alden Debes Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Rockford....
Two days before the crash that killed him at 26, Redding had recorded the vocals for aching ballad (Sittinâ On) The Dock of the Bay. Four miles outside Madison, Wisconsin, December 10, 1967, hampered by low cloud cover and cold weather, the eight-seater private plane carrying 26-year-old soul star Otis Redding hit trouble.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators are not ruling out pilot error as a possible cause of the Boeing 777 crash. The tail of the Asiana Airlines plane was ripped off, landing on the tarmac far behind the rest of the plane which had span through the air and burst into flames.