Not boarding a plane that ultimately crashed is not "almost dying." On February 3, 1959, a date immortalized in Don McLean's American Pie as "the day the music died," Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, who had been touring the midwest, were killed in a plane crash. Waylon Jennings was a member of Buddy Holly's band. Dion & The Belmonts were also part of the tour. Waylon and Dion did not get on the plane. Therefore they did not "almost die." I rest my case,