Article: NT: Rock star feared fate of Buddy Holly


AAP General News (Australia)
07-12-1999
NT: Rock star feared fate of Buddy Holly

Fearing he would crash just as BUDDY HOLLY did, rock star DOC NEESON yesterday wrote a
farewell to his children as his Ansett jet circled over Darwin with a broken tyre.

The Angels frontman and two band members are stranded in Darwin with members of Mental as
Anything after Flight 155 had equipment problems and failed to leave Darwin yesterday.

The two Aussie bands, who had several hits in the 1980s, had been playing at a Darwin rock
festival on Saturday night.

An Ansett spokeswoman says the Airbus A 320's tyre broke as the jet took off, forcing the
pilot to ...

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