The beginning of the day, Oct. 2, 1970, was just like any other day for the Wichita State football team. Now Oct. 2, is the annual reminder of what happened that day.
“I don’t think you can ever forget that, we’re going to honor that forever. It will be an important day for us in athletics,”Director of Athletics Kevin Saal said.
Wichita State hosted the memorial for the 52nd anniversary of the football team’s plane crash at Memorial ’70.
The team was traveling in two planes named the “Black Plane” and the “Gold Plane”, to play against Utah State.