What caused John Denver to crash?
What caused John Denver to crash? At approximately 5:30 pm local time, after a smooth takeoff from a Pacific Grove airfield and under ideal flying conditions, Denver apparently lost control of his Long-EZ aircraft while trying to switch gas tanks several hundred feet over Monterey Bay, leading to the fatal crash. Did John Denver lose his head in crash? The crash left Denver's head and body disfigured to the point that identifying the singer's body was impossible by dental records, and his fingerprints were used to confirm that John Denver had been piloting the aircraft at the time of the...