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Stevie Ray Vaughan was an American guitarist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of Double Trouble. He was killed in the crash of a helicopter piloted by Jeff Brown on the side of a ski hill at Alpine Valley Resort in East Troy, Wisconsin on Monday, August 27, 1990; Vaughan had just performed at the resort's amphitheatre with Double Trouble. He was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, where it was stated that all of the victims were killed instantly. Shortly after local news stations reported Vaughan's death, crowds gathered at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas for a candlelight vigil. He was buried on August 30, 1990, at the Laurel Land Cemetery in Dallas. ==Death== On the morning of August 26, 1990, Vaughan told his band and crew members about a horrible nightmare in which he was at his own funeral and saw thousands of mourners. He felt "terrified, yet almost peaceful." Backstage after the show that evening, the musicians talked about playing together again, particularly with Eric Clapton for a series of dates at London's Royal Albert Hall in February and March 1991, as a tribute to Jimi Hendrix.〔Dickerson, p. 154〕 Moments later, Peter Jackson, Clapton's tour manager, said that the weather was getting worse and they had to leave soon.〔Leigh, p. 3〕 According to Double Trouble drummer Chris Layton, Vaughan's last words to him were, "I love ya."〔Everitt, p. 132〕 Dew was settling on the windshields of the four helicopters waiting to transport the performers back to Chicago. Stevie Ray, his elder brother Jimmie Vaughan, and his wife Connie made their way to their reserved helicopter, a Bell 206B Jet Ranger booked by Omniflight Helicopters and manned by Jeff Brown, a 42-year-old veteran pilot.〔 Peter Jackson, one of Clapton's tour managers let Vaughan know that three seats were reserved for himself, Jimmie, and Connie.〔 Upon arrival, they discovered that their seats had been taken by members of Clapton's crew, agent Bobby Brooks, bodyguard Nigel Browne, and assistant tour manager Colin Smythe.〔〔〔Gregory, p. 119〕 Vaughan, wanting to get back to Chicago, asked Jimmie and Connie if he could take the last seat, saying "I really need to get back."〔〔 They obliged and caught the next flight in Lake Geneva with Layton and Jimmie's manager, Mark Proct.〔 At 1 a.m., the helicopters departed in dense fog at two-minute intervals.〔Kitts, p. 70〕 Jeff Brown, occupying the right seat in the cockpit,〔 guided the helicopter off the golf course, remaining at a high speed and slightly lower altitude than the others.〔〔Everitt, p. 134〕 It banked sharply〔 to the left〔 and crashed into the side of a 300-foot-high ski slope,〔Dickerson, p. 155〕 about from takeoff.〔 All on board were killed instantly. With no fire or explosion, the bodies and debris were scattered over an area of .〔〔Everitt, p. 134〕〔 Nobody was aware of the crash until the helicopter failed to arrive at its destination the next morning. At 7 a.m., a Wisconsin Civil Air Patrol search helicopter, carrying sheriff's deputies, found the wreckage, which was below the summit of the hill.〔〔 Shortly after, Clapton and Jimmie Vaughan were called to the morgue to identify the bodies.〔 According to an autopsy report, Vaughan had suffered many unsurvivable injuries, such as transection and dissection of the aorta, multiple depressed skull fractures, ruptured spleen and liver, along with fractures of the right thigh bone and ribs. An investigation found that no drugs or alcohol were involved, and all victims had worn seatbelts.〔 No mechanical failures or malfunctions were found with the helicopter.〔 Pilot Jeff Brown was instrument rated and had many hours of experience operating the Bell 206B at night. According to the National Transportation Safety Board, the cause of the accident was deemed to be controlled flight into terrain; Brown simply could not see the hill due to low visibility.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Death of Stevie Ray Vaughan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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