Illinois State Associate Head Coach Torrey Ward was among 7 passengers killed in a plane crash near Bloomington airport early Tuesday.
Torrey and five others were traveling on Scott Bittner’s private plane on the way back home after attending the NCAA tournament title game in Indianapolis on Monday.
Torrey’s last tweet on Monday was a photo of the plane that he would perish in just hours later.
He tweeted “My ride to the game wasn’t bad.. #indy2015f4”
From Chicago Tribune:
“My daughter’s husband and three other men and the pilot went to the NCAA game last night and they were flying back and I guess the weather was bad in central Illinois. It was foggy,” Scott Barrows, Bitner’s father-in-law, told the Chicago Tribune.
“They were supposed to land around midnight. My daughter was called at 4 a.m. There was no contact. It has been confirmed they are dead.”
Ward starred at Phillips High School in Birmingham before guiding UAB to the NCAA tournament in 1999. He graduated with his degree in 2001.
He later served as an assistant at Jacksonville State and Ole Miss. He was the associate head coach at Illinois State before his death.
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Damn. That’s sad.
He was handsome too
Oh nooo! So tragic
R.I.P.
Yardi
How ya hanging in there babe? 
*going back downstairs*
When this happen? How bad was the weather? Why the news don’t cover it?
Jesus!
RIP son.
God be with his family
lawd jesus be a arms for h!s w!fe and ch!ldren. Cr!y!ng Shame
Waste, how we know he’s in paradise? Where do people go if they die in the mist of partaking in an orgy or swingers club. Worried about a friend
Damn damn damn……
Aww thats terrible. So young
My Lord
dang
Struggle I can’t with your fonts
get a new keyboard it’s like $7 at dollar general family dollar walmart or Big lots
God that’s terrible …. RIP awwwww
R.I.P.
Oh noooooooo
Father GOD please be with the families right now
@MisU
I say S.I.P. as Sleep in Peace
H! struggle!
Sad.
So young too.
Ooohhhh. I didn’t do the education. Thought it was sleep in paradise.
Wow…
Could be either I think MisU
Out of respect for the deceased I won’t bring downstairs up here. I’ll just wait for another post.
MisUnderstood says:
Struggle I can’t with your fonts
get a new keyboard it’s like $7 at dollar general family dollar walmart or Big lots
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He kinda favor Monica husband in that photo on the right no ?
Thanks Tasha :fistbump:
Guess it can Waste
I don’t see it Jenie but ion member what Shannon look like. Wait that’s his name right?
This gives me the sads. I
for the familes of all of the victims.
Eerie how you can be texting on minute..dead the next. Very eerie.
RIP
MisUnderstood says:
I don’t see it Jenie but ion member what Shannon look like. Wait that’s his name right?
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Tasha …. thanks for making it crystal clear
Taken can you see me
Maybe y’all already talked about this in previous posts…but lookit.
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Struggling state-run carrier Air India has grounded two of its pilots after a fight erupted between the pair just before takeoff, reports said Monday.
The co-pilot allegedly assaulted the captain inside the cockpit as they were preparing the passenger plane for takeoff from the Indian tourist city of Jaipur to New Delhi on Sunday night, the Hindustan Times newspaper said.
The co-pilot was irritated by his superior’s request to write down critical information for the flight, such as the number of passengers on board, take off weight and fuel uptake, the Times Of India reported.
“The co-pilot took offence at this and reportedly beat up the captain,” the newspaper said, quoting unnamed sources.
“In the larger interest of the airline the commander decided to go ahead with the flight and flew to Delhi,” the daily added.
The airline denied any violence took place, saying there was only a verbal argument between the pair, according to the Press Trust of India.
“There were only heated exchanges between the commander and co-pilot over some issue. We have already derostered the two pilots pending an enquiry,” an Air India spokesman told the news agency.
The carrier could not be reached for comment.
Whang, what is the world coming to? Co pilot was like you ain’t gonna take us all down, you betta write that ish down
@MisU chileeee….
But that ride home… Dam n!
I tell people all the time, one thing you won’t EVER do is get my a$$ on a private plane. NO THANKS! One engine is not enough to make me comfortable.
I was going to Dallas for the weekend once and they put me on one of those small planes where you have to walk ON the tarmac and then walk up 5 steps to get on the plane. I get on this little bitty b*tch and it was ONE row of seats on the left, and ONE row on the right. My spirit wouldn’t let me relax… and then the pilots comes on the AP, “Ladies and gentlemen, we’re having some minor engine issues, we have a technician on the way and…”
Meanwhile, a messiken on a golf cart pulls up on the side of my window with a tool box.
“Hole on… skuze me, ma’am… can you get my suitcase from up under this thing and show me back to my car? I’m out of here. LET ME OFF!!”
When she said she was letting me off, five other people said, “Well, hell… ME too then!”
They put us up at a hotel for the next available flight the next morning.
#Thank y’all. I don’t do small planes
This is so sad to me. My kids’ auntie lives in Bloomington & I’ve driven past that airport for years.