Today in 1977, the airplane carrying Lynyrd Skynyrd to Baton Rouge, LA crashed near Gillsburg, MI. The plane ran out of fuel in mid-air and forced the pilots to attempt an emergency landing on a nearby abandoned airstrip. The plane never made it to the strip and crashed in a heavily wooded area, being ripped to pieces. While most passengers survived with serious injuries, six people were killed in the crash- lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and his sister Cassie, roadie Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary, and co-pilot William Gray. The band had previously decided that this would be their final flight…