Buddy Holly’s 1959 Plane Crash May Be Reinvestigated [VIDEOS]

What a strange turn of events.

Without the tragic plane crash that claimed the life of Buddy Holly, he could have become one of the biggest stars we've ever seen.

The way his sound affected the world at that time could be compared to the way people think about an artist like Skrillex now. It confuses the hell out of the old and close minded. The younger and open minded love it. It takes music in a new direction. It's artistic innovation.

When he would fire into his very original twang mixed with rock, skiffle and blues, he affected people in so many ways. Some would feel the music to their soul, and he became a favorite of many music lovers. Others literally threatened him and his band with violence. That was mostly in Texas and the redneck south, but still, it happened.

If he hadn't died in 1959, music might sound different today. He was poised to become as big, or bigger than the Beatles. Don't forget, when they were the Quarrymen, and the Silver Beatles, they were a skiffle band. They wanted to sound like Buddy Holly. And he was just getting started. Can you imagine the way he could have evolved through the experimental 60's?

Then came the day the music died. Because of bus trouble, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens (La Bamba and Donna) and the Big Bopper (Chantilly Lace) opted to charter a plane out of Iowa bound for Minnesota and their next gig. They never made it.

I can't remember if I cried, when I read about his widowed bride,

But something touched me deep inside, the day the music died.

Don Mclean - American Pie

Now, according to the Huffington Post the NTSB may re-investigate the crash.

U.S. transportation safety investigators said on Wednesday they are reviewing a request to reopen a probe into the 1959 airplane crash that killed musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, J.P. Richardson, better known as "The Big Bopper," and their pilot.

The original investigation 56 years ago conducted by the Civil Aeronautics Board blamed the crash on the pilot's decision to embark on an instrument-guided flight he was not certified for and, secondarily, on poor weather briefing.