1967 plane crash at Camp Shelby

On March 31, 1967 at around 1 PM, a single-engine plane took off from Chattanooga, Tennessee and flew to Camp Shelby, but crashed about 150 feet from the airstrip. It killed all three passengers: pilot Lt. Col Stanley H. McCullough, Capt. Alton H. Byars, and Maj. Allen B. Jordan (father of actor Leslie Jordan). There was no distress call, but four people on the ground said they saw the plane in the air and could hear the engine sputtering. An FAA investigation said that the left fuel tank was completely full but the right fuel tank was empty, and at the time of the crash the fuel tank selector was set to use the right tank.