re: LSU and Bama fans... a classic (for Tiger fans anyway)

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I thought Rein was already named as head coach, and was on a recruiting trip when the plane crashed.

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Correct. He'd flown up to Shreveport to visit a recruit. On the return trip, the pilot radioed that he was re-routing around a storm. Something happened after that and the plane flew due east all the way to the Atlantic ocean where Air Force planes observed it to run out of fuel and crash in the sea. No bodies were recovered. Speculation was that the cabin became depressurized at high altitude causing Rein and his pilot to pass out from lack of oxygen. Tragic. LSU paid for the college education of their choice for Rein's children.