Holly, two other musicians and a pilot died in a plane crash in Iowa in February 1959. Poor weather reports and the pilot underestimating the severity of the weather led to the crash, investigators found. By Hillary Andrews So many sing about “the day that music died” on Feb. 3, 1959, when Buddy Holly, RitchieContinue reading “What caused Buddy Holly’s plane to crash 65 years ago: The day that music died”