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31/08/1969 Former heavyweight champ Rocky Marciano dies

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SYND 02/09/69 ROCKY MARCIANO DIES IN PLANE CRASH

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Rocky Marciano's Death

Rocky Marciano was a passenger in a small private plane, a Cessna 172 heading to Des Moines, Iowa. It was nighttime and bad weather had set in. The pilot, Glenn Belz tried to land the plane at a small airfield outside Newton, Iowa but the aircraft hit a tree two miles short of the runway. Marciano, Belz and Frankie Farrell were killed on impact.