On April 7, 2015, the Illinois State University community was stunned and saddened by a tragic plane crash that claimed the lives of two Athletics Department staff members and five Redbird friends and supporters. As the one-year observance approaches, the Illinois State Athletics Department encourages faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends to pay respect to
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Athletics launches Redbird Remembrance website
The Redbird Remembrance website honors the seven men who lost their lives in the April 7, 2015, plane crash outside of Bloomington-Normal.
A season of sorrow
The campus community and residents of Bloomington-Normal came together during the spring semester to mourn the loss of seven men killed in a plane accident on April 7.