A wreath placed at the Memorial '70 monument on the Wichita State campus, which honors
the 31 lives lost on Oct. 2, 1970 in a plane crash.
Memorial event commemorating 1970 WSU plane crash set for Oct. 2
Sept. 28, 2022
By WSU Strategic Communications
Memorial '70
In an annual ceremony of remembrance, a wreath is placed at Wichita State's Memorial
'70 at 9 a.m. each Oct. 2. The brief ceremony honors WSU football players, administrators
and supporters who died in a plane crash Oct. 2, 1970.
At 9 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 2, Wichita State will host the 52nd observance of Memorial
'70, the annual ceremony that honors the 31 WSU football players, administrators and
supporters who died in a 1970 plane crash in the Rocky Mountains. It will take place
at the Memorial near 18th and Hillside.
Members of the public are invited to attend.
A wreath will be placed at the base of Memorial '70, and there will be a time of remembrance
to acknowledge the changes that the plane crash made in the lives of the victims,
their families, their friends and the university.
