The Stunning Transformation Of Reba McEntire

March 16, 1991, would mark a day those in the music industry will never forget, but it's a sad memory for Reba McEntire especially. That was the day the plane that was chartered for eight members of her band and crew crashed in the Otay Mountain Wilderness, an area that encompasses more than 16,000 acres of land near the U.S. and Mexican border, near San Diego. The plane, the first of two to take off, was en route from Brown Field Municipal Airport in San Diego to Ft. Wayne, Indiana, when the tip of its wing clipped a rock on the side of Otay Mountain due to poor visibility, killing everyone on board. 

McEntire remembered that day on an episode of Oprah's Master Class in 2012. "It was the worst thing that's ever happened in my life, but I just can't imagine Jim's family, Kirk's family, Joey, Paula Kaye — all the band that we lost — the pilots, their family. I lost friends. They lost family members."

In October of that same year, McEntire would release the album, "For My Broken Heart" and dedicate it to those lost in the plane crash: Jim Hammon, Kirk Cappello, Chris Austin, Joey Cigainero, Paula Kaye Evans, Terry Jackson, Tony Saputo, Michael Thomas, pilot Donald Holms, and co-pilot Chris Hollinger.