On This Day: October 12, 1997 — John Denver Dies in a Plane Crash
John Denver died on October 12, 1997, when the experimental Rutan Long-EZ aircraft he was flying ran out of fuel and crashed into Monterey Bay near Pacific Grove, California. He was 53 and had owned the plane only a few weeks. The NTSB later traced the crash to a fuel valve that had been relocated…