The Red Clay Strays recently had quite the memorable flight, and it was caught on video.
The popular country-rock music group was headed to a show in Salt Lake City, Utah, over the weekend when things got rocky.
The group posted the video Sunday on social media.
“Apparently, we hit an over 40 degree bank while trying to land in Salt Lake,” the post read. “Naturally, as we thought the plane was going down, Andrew Bishop thought it was a good time to play some (Lynyrd) Skynyrd.
“Seriously though, very thankful to our pilots for their quick-thinking and coolness under pressure. Y’all rock!”
Brandon Coleman, Drew Nix, Zach Rishel, Andrew Bishop, John Hall and Sevens Henderson were all abord the plane and appeared to be preparing for the worse.
“If it’s gotta go down, it’s gonna go down to Skynyrd,” Bishop said, referring to the historic and fatal 1997 plane crash that killed Lynyrd Skynyrd members onboard, including lead singer Ronnie Van Zant. “I don’t know. I think I wanna go back to commercial flights.”
“Hold it together, hold it together, boys,” another band member says out loud as the lead singer of the Red Clay Strays, Coleman, appears to retch while leaning over in his seat.
At one point, one of the group members asks the pilot, “So it doesn’t get much worse than that?”
“No, yeah, I mean. You die,” the pilot replied. “That’s about as worse as it gets right there.”
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