How did Buddy Holly REALLY die? Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, on February 3 1959, while on he was tour.

The son of "the Big Bopper" has hired a forensic anthropologist to try to answer questions about how his father died in the 1959 plane crash that also took the lives of famous rock-and-rollers ...

1 / 2: The single-engine plane carrying Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens crashed in an Iowa corn field the night before they were to appear at the Moorhead Armory.

Charles Hardin Holly, better known to his millions of fans as Buddy Holly, was killed in a plane crash almost 60 years ago. Since his untimely death at just 22-years-old, there have been countless ...

THE plane crash which killed Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens may be re-investigated after a pilot claimed that a key part of the aircraft could have been missing when it took off.