On this day in 1964, Jim Reeves and pianist Dean Manuel died in a plane crash during a thunderstorm in Brentwood, Tennessee. Numerous locals--including Eddy Arnold, Chet Atkins and Ernest Tubb- - searched for three days before discovering the wreckage | GatorRock

Country music legend Jim Reeves died on 31 July 1964, when the Single engine beechcraft Debonair he was piloting Crushed in a thunderstorm Near brentwood ,Tennessee, Just outside Nashville. Reeves and his business Partner, Dean manual. Were killed instantly, and The wreckage was not Discovered untill 2 days Later. His death at age 40 Cut short a pioneering Career that helped shape the Nashville sound. But his Music continued to Be popular. With his widow, Mary Reeves, Releasing posthumous Materi