Hooker-Ensle-Pierce House is a historic home located in Center Township, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. The original log cabin was built in 1839, and subsequently expanded with a second log cabin connected by a breezeway. The breezeway was enclosed and the house expanded in the 1880s, and the housed remodeled in 1917 and 1937.
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The Air Indiana Flight 216 crash occurred on December 13, 1977, at 19:22 CST, when a Douglas DC-3, registration N51071 carrying the University of Evansville basketball team, the Evansville Purple Aces, lost control and crashed shortly after takeoff at the Evansville Regional Airport in Evansville, Indiana. The plane was on its way to Nashville International Airport, taking the team to play the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
The National Transportation Safety Board blamed the crash on the pilot's failure to remove gust locks on the right aileron and the rudder before takeoff, as well as an overloaded baggage compartment. The NTSB report said that the plane might have been able to stay airborne had only one of the problems existed. As it was, the extra baggage shifted the plane's center of gravity to the rear, and the locked rudder and aileron made it impossible to control the overweight aircraft.
Head coach Bobby Watson was the only coach on board the flight as his assistant coaches were on scouting assignments at the time. Athletic director Jim Byers had planned to board the plane but stayed behind to interview a candidate for the baseball program. Four of the passengers were still breathing when found by rescuers, with three dying on the scene and one dying hours after the accident. The only member of the Purple Aces who did not die in the crash was 18-year-old freshman David Furr; he was out for the season with an ankle injury and thus was not on the plane that day. Two weeks after the crash, Furr and his younger brother Byron were killed in a car accident near Newton, Illinois, leaving the entire 1977 Evansville team dead. After consideration, the rest of the season was cancelled.
A memorial has been constructed at the University of Evansville known as the "Weeping Basketball." On stone slabs are engraved the names of the players who were killed, including Furr. Also engraved is an excerpt from the eulogy delivered by school president Wallace Graves at a memorial service: "Out of the agony of this hour we will rise." A memorial is also at the Ford Center, where the Purple Aces currently play their home games.
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WCFY-LP is a radio station broadcasting a Christian contemporary radio format. Licensed to Evansville, Indiana, United States, the station serves the Evansville area. The station is currently owned by Christian Fellowship Church Inc.
The station originally broadcast on 102.7 FM, but was allowed to change frequencies in early 2009 due to interference from nearby low-power stations broadcasting on 102.7 FM. The license for this frequency change was not issued by the FCC until October 14, 2014.
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Melody Hill is a census-designated place in Center Township, Vanderburgh County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2020 census, Melody Hill had a population of 3,689.
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Goebel Soccer Complex is a multi-purpose, $3.4 million project that opened in the spring of 2004 on 70 acres of land in Evansville, Indiana. The facility has nine Olympic-size irrigated Bermuda grass fields and one Olympic-size AstroPlay turf field. The main field and five of the grass fields have lights for night play. In addition to soccer, the complex also hosts football and lacrosse events.
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Evansville Regional Airport is three miles north of Evansville, in Vanderburgh County, Indiana, United States. It is owned and operated by the Evansville-Vanderburgh Airport Authority District.
Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport say EVV's annual traffic grew by nearly seven percent in 2018, in comparison to passenger counts the previous year. EVV reports that through December 2018, year-to-date enplanements, or passengers departing from EVV, totaled 235,082, surpassing the prior year's traffic that totaled 220,046 passengers. EVV's total number of travelers, which includes the passengers who flew in to EVV from other airports, also grew last year, to nearly a half million people annually. EVV's passenger traffic has grown by 35 percent in only four years.
It is the fourth largest airport in the state of Indiana after Fort Wayne International Airport, South Bend International Airport, and Indianapolis International Airport.
The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021 calls it a non-hub primary service airport.
Evansville Regional Airport was also served by Lake Central Airlines which merged into Allegheny Airlines in 1968, which later became USAir and then US Airways
The two-story dwelling has a side-gable roof and full-width, one-story front porch. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.