2 Mangione Musicians Die In Plane Crash


Posted on Feb 13, 2009 @ 03:15PM  
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A publicist says two members of jazz musician Chuck Mangione's band were among those killed on the plane that crashed into a Buffalo, New York, house.

The band members are identified as Gerry Niewood and Coleman Mellett.

In a statement Mangione, said: "I'm in shock over the horrible, heartbreaking tragedy."

The band was supposed to play a show in Buffalo tonight. That show has been canceled.

50 people were killed when Continental Flight 3407 crashed just short of t he Buffalo Niagara International Airport overnight.