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Wichita State’s crash evokes moving memories 50 years later

A heavy reminder of what took place 50 years ago in this section of the Colorado Rocky Mountains where memorials and tributes dot the scarred landscape. It's here a plane carrying the Wichita State football team crashed while traveling to a game at Utah State on Oct. 2, 1970. Survivors of the crash, too, like defensive lineman Dave Lewis who went a decade ago because, ''I wanted to look at it to see what this place of horror resembled in peace.

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