Editing De Kalb, Texas (section)

==History==
On December 31, 1985, at approximately 5:14&nbsp;pm, a [[Douglas DC-3]] private aircraft, N711Y, owned by [[Ricky Nelson]], with a pilot, co-pilot, and seven passengers, including Nelson, his fiancée, and five members of his band, crashed in a wooded area near De Kalb. The plane was on a flight from [[Guntersville, Alabama]], to [[Dallas|Dallas, Texas]], where Nelson was scheduled to appear at a [[New Year's Eve]] performance. All seven passengers were killed in the accident when the plane caught fire. The pilot and co-pilot were able to escape and survived.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hayes |first=Thomas C. |date=January 1, 1986 |title=Ricky Nelson and Six Others Die as Their Plane Crashes in Texas |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/01/obituaries/ricky-nelson-and-six-others-die-as-their-plane-crashes-in-texas.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=July 21, 2018}}</ref>

On May 4, 1999 De Kalb took a direct hit to the downtown area from an EF-3 tornado. https://data.elpasotimes.com/tornado-archive/texas/5696338/