Puerto Rican baseball legend Roberto Clemente and three others died on December 31, 1972, when their airplane crashed after take-off from Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, while attempting to fly to Nicaragua with help for earthquake victims.
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Lucas returned to the American West and took up filmmaking after surviving the 1972 earthquake in Managua, Nicaragua.