frazzleb13po4138 t1_ja708oo wrote on February 27, 2023 at 8:42 AM Reply to TIL that Ben S. Cauley, Jr. was the sole survivor of the plane crash that killed singer Otis Redding & 6 other people in 1967. Cauley took off his seat belt shortly before the crash. He managed to cling to a seat cushion for 20 minutes, until a rescue boat pulled him from the freezing lake waters. by Paiger__ The lake was Lake Monona east of the capital building in Madison WI, Dec. 10th 1967. Permalink 1
frazzleb13po4138 t1_ja708oo wrote
Reply to TIL that Ben S. Cauley, Jr. was the sole survivor of the plane crash that killed singer Otis Redding & 6 other people in 1967. Cauley took off his seat belt shortly before the crash. He managed to cling to a seat cushion for 20 minutes, until a rescue boat pulled him from the freezing lake waters. by Paiger__
The lake was Lake Monona east of the capital building in Madison WI, Dec. 10th 1967.