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Even free birds can’t fly forever. This spring, Lynyrd Skynyrd will kick off the final tour of a long, storied career that spans more than a half-century. The two-year Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour launches May 4th in West Palm Beach, just four hours down the Florida coast …

Ronnie Van Zant’s bandmates were anxious as they prepared to board their leased plane at Greenville, South Carolina’s Downtown Airport on the afternoon of October 20th, 1977. And they had good reason to be: Lynyrd Skynyrd‘s rickety Convair 240, pushing 30 years old, was obviously past its prime. “We were …