Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin both passed on the old 1947 Convair twin-engine plane that Skynyrd leased in 1977, I think it first was..

that plane had a few serious problems and two sketchy pilots, also. It especially had fuel gauge- and fuel-delivery problems, and it actually caught fire in one engine/wing during that fateful flight in October of 1977 going thru Mississippi..

Cassie Gaines or Jo Jo Billingsley was scared to death after a bandmember had had a bad premonition of impending disaster. Ronnie - tempting fate - talked her out of aborting that flight ... and it ultimately cost her her life (Cassie not Jo Jo).

Sad.