EVANSVILLE, IN – The night before the game at Middle Tennessee State, a chartered, twin-propeller DC-3 airplane that was to carry the Aces to Nashville arrived at Evansville’s airport three hours late.
Courier & Press archives
Rain and fog were blamed.
“(UE officials) called twice to say they were going to be a little later, then a little later,” Jim Freeman, sports information director at Middle Tennessee, told the Courier in 1977.
The Aces took off at 7:20 p.m. Their plane was in trouble immediately.
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