Valens, along with fellow musicians Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson, perished two years after the Pacoima crash when their chartered Beechcraft Bonanza crashed near Mason City, Iowa in the early morning hours of February 3, 1959.
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