{"id":551,"date":"2009-02-13T15:13:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T15:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/02\/two-musicians-with-chuck-mangi.html"},"modified":"2009-02-13T15:13:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T15:13:37","slug":"two-musicians-with-chuck-mangi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/02\/two-musicians-with-chuck-mangi.html","title":{"rendered":"Two Musicians With Chuck Mangione Band Killed In Plane Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GerryNiewood.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/GerryNiewood.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"163\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ColemanMelletChuckMangione.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/118\/import\/ColemanMelletChuckMangione.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"176\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>Gerry Niewood (pictured with sax) and Coleman Mellett (pictured with Chuck Mangione), musicians with the Grammy-award winning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chuckmangione.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chuck Mangione Band<\/a>, were killed last night in a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.13wham.com\/news\/local\/story\/Plane-Crashes-into-Home-Outside-Buffalo-Kills-50\/zD0ZJqjYg0yYjon0_-khiw.cspx\" target=\"_blank\"> plane crash near Buffalo, N.Y<\/a>. Continental Connection Flight 3407, which was operated by Colgan Air, was en route from Newark, N.J. to Buffalo when it crashed into a house in Clarence, N.Y., about five miles from the airport. All 49 crew members and passengers on board were killed, as well as one person in the house.<br \/>\nThe Chuck Mangione Band was scheduled to perform tonight at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kleinhans Music Hall<\/a> in Buffalo with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. The show has been postponed<br \/>\nIn a statement, Mangione said, &#8220;I&#8217;m in shock over the horrible, heartbreaking tragedy of the crash of Flight 3407 which took the lives of my dear friends and band members Gerry Niewood and Coleman Mellett. I am grieving and praying with their families and friends. That&#8217;s all I can say for now.&#8221;<br \/>\nPlease keep the families of the victims in your prayers.<br \/>\n<em>Get the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gospel Soundcheck <\/a>headlines delivered daily to your email inbox. Just sign up for the RSS feed by going to the &#8220;Subscribe&#8221; box on the right hand side of this blog and entering your email address.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerry Niewood (pictured with sax) and Coleman Mellett (pictured with Chuck Mangione), musicians with the Grammy-award winning Chuck Mangione Band, were killed last night in a plane crash near Buffalo, N.Y. 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