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The Red Clay Strays had one scary plane ride over the weekend and of course, they caught the whole thing on video.
The band was flying to REDWEST 2025 in Utah on Saturday (Oct. 12th) when their private plane hit some nasty turbulence. The clip they posted shows the guys gripping their seats and trying to laugh it off while the plane bounced all over the place.
At one point, bass player Andrew Bishop says, “If it’s gonna go down, it’s gonna go down to Lynyrd Skynyrd. I think I wanna go back to commercial flights.”
Bold choice of music considering the Skynyrd plane crash… but hey, when you’re in the sky like that, humor’s all you’ve got.
The pilots eventually got the plane on the ground safely, but not before Bishop asked if it ever gets worse than that and the pilot told him, “No. You die. That’s about as bad as it gets.”
Frontman Brandon Coleman admitted afterward, “I threw up. I threw up really bad.”
The guys thanked their pilots, James Pruitt and James D. Pruitt, for keeping calm while things got rough, saying the plane actually banked over 40 degrees before landing.
Fellow artists chimed in online after seeing the video:
Dexter and the Moonrocks: “‘If we’re gonna go down we’re gonna go down to Skynyrd’ is iconic.”
Brandi Carlile: “Laughing out loud, been there.”
Lukas Nelson: “Wow!”
Brent Cobb: “I know y’all done s—.”
Billy Strings: “Nope. F— that all the way. God, I hate flying…”
Everyone’s okay but just a little shaken and probably sticking to solid ground for a while.
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