We revisit the tragic site of the 1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash to carefully recover long-lost items buried for over four decades. Among the lives lost were band legends Ronnie Van Zant, Steve and ...

July 30 -- Leon Wilkeson, bass player and founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, is dead at age 49. ... Wilkeson cheated death in 1977, surviving a crash of the band's chartered plane.

In this 2020 return to the Lynyrd Skynyrd crash site, we use the Minelab Vanquish metal detectors to search for more pieces of music history. During this trip, we make an astonishing find linked ...