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Audie Murphy plane crash article should be renamed

Page moved to 1971 Colorado Aviation Aero Commander 680 crash, per this thread

The below thread has been copied from WikiProject Military history#Audie Murphy plane crash article should be renamed. — Maile (talk) 20:02, 11 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Audie Murphy plane crash was just created by Samf4u. It was not Murphy's plane, and he wasn't the only passenger who died. I suggest a renaming of the article, but I don't know what. Any suggestions? — Maile (talk) 22:12, 9 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Assuming we really need the page (I would lean to a merge with Audie Murphy), I think "Aero Commander 680 Super crash" fits the general syntax of crash page names.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 15:36, 10 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

First off, if you read the article you'd know that the plane was owned by Colorado Aviation which was a subsidiary of Telestar. Murphy was the Director of Telestar. Second, change the name to anything you want, I don't care, but merging w/the Audie Murphy article is out of the question. At 70K the article is large. Adding another 11K would be a little much. Please see WP:AS. Samf4u (talk) 21:48, 10 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I would agree on not merging with the Audie Murphy article. It made it to FA like it is, and there was a lot of editing back and forth over that section. I'm happy to leave the Audie Murphy article alone. I don't even want to mess with editing with the plane crash article, since it seems well done. I just question the name of it. But as with all things at Wikipedia, that's really up to a consensus. — Maile (talk) 21:57, 10 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

If it is any help, and in a similar vein, I would have searched for Lynyrd Skynyrd air crash, but it turns out that crash is at 1977 Convair CV-300 crash. Perhaps something similar could be done with the title of Murphy's crash article? Cheers, Peacemaker67 (crack... thump) 03:37, 11 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The correct title would be "1971 Colorado Aviation Aero Commander 680 crash", per the naming convention for aircrash articles. Mjroots (talk) 17:55, 11 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I never really cared for the title. Perhaps it should be changed. Mjroots suggestion would be correct. It's a little long and unfortunately can't be shortened because another Aero Commander 680 crashed in Dec. 1971 at New Orleans. Samf4u (talk) 21:28, 11 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I just moved it to what was agreed above: "1971 Colorado Aviation Aero Commander 680 crash". — Maile (talk) 20:34, 12 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Mountain where the crash happened is not Brushy Mountain, it is Brush Mountain. Please correct this error soon as it is embarrassing.

The Mountain where the crash happened is not Brushy Mountain, it is "Brush Mountain."

I used to run with my track team on the mountain on a very regular basis.

See wikipedia link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brush_Mountain_Wilderness

Also see the following link (and many more such links exist). https://www.virginia.org/listings/HistoricSites/AudieMurphyMonument/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.46.216.249 (talk) 03:10, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

See the NTSB ref cited. - Ahunt (talk) 03:18, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Crash Location

Brushy Mountain is much closer to Maggie, Virginia than Catawba and Catawba is in Roanoke County, not Craig County. WhoAmIYouDoNotKnow (talk) 20:15, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Please refer to the cited ref. - Ahunt (talk) 21:37, 5 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]