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TIL that in 1982, Ozzy Osbourne's tour bus driver Andrew Aycock, guitarist Randy Rhoads, and makeup artist Rachel Youngblood were killed while riding a small plane Aycock was flying low over the bus in attempt to wake up the band, which he passed twice before clipping a wing and going into a spiral

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