Is the 2006 movie We Are Marshall based on a true story?
We Are Marshall, which is based on a true tragic story, is a 2006 film. It is based on the November 14, 1970 air tragedy in which members of the Marshal University football team (team, coaches, staff, members, crew members) died on a plane crash. The incident took place when Southern Airways Flight 932, which was chartered by the school to fly the Thundering Herd football team, coaches, and fans to Kinston, North Carolina, for a game against the East Carolina University Pirates and back to Huntington, crashed on approach to Tri-State Airport after clipping trees just west of the runway and impacting nose-first into a hollow. All seventy-five people on board perished. The team was rebuilt with Jack Lengyel as the new head coach. The leaders of the “Young Thundering Herd” (which the team officially changed its name to for the 1971 season) were the few players who didn’t make the trip due to injury or disciplinary action. A bulk of the team were freshmen players who were allowed to play o
We Are Marshall, which is based on a true tragic story, is a 2006 film. It is based on the November 14, 1970 air tragedy in which members of the Marshal University football team (team, coaches, staff, members, crew members) died on a plane crash. The incident took place when Southern Airways Flight 932, which was chartered by the school to fly the Thundering Herd football team, coaches, and fans to Kinston, North Carolina, for a game against the East Carolina University Pirates and back to Huntington, crashed on approach to Tri-State Airport after clipping trees just west of the runway and impacting nose-first into a hollow. All seventy-five people on board perished. The team was rebuilt with Jack Lengyel as the new head coach. The leaders of the “Young Thundering Herd” (which the team officially changed its name to for the 1971 season) were the few players who didn’t make the trip due to injury or disciplinary action. They would win only two games that year. Their first win was an emo
