Reba McEntire Remembers Plane Crash 20 Years Later [VIDEO]

I can remember this just like it was yesterday, because I had just seen Reba's concert at Hirsch Coliseum here in Shreveport just a couple of weeks before the plane crash.

I went back stage with some of our winners and met Reba. I also talked a long while with her guitar player, Michael Thomas, who was killed in the plane crash just a few days later.

I can remember the conversation with Michael Thomas very well because he asked me, "Have you added my wife's record yet?"

I asked him what her name was, he told me, and I was happy to say yes because I had just added her record that very same week.

Reba still struggles to contain the emotion after twenty years. She tells the story in this emotional video clip below.

Reba recalls playing a private show in San Diego.  She had two planes waiting at Brown Field Municipal Airport to take her and the band to Fort Wayne, Ind. for their next show.  But the whole group didn't traveling together.

Reba, her husband and manager Norville Blackstock, and her makeup and clothing stylist Sandi Spika all decided to stay in San Diego overnight and the band members headed to Indiana. As soon as one of the planes took off, however, tragedy struck unexpectedly.

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Reba accepting the "Female Vocalist Award" at the 1991 CMA Awards after the plane crash.