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August 25, 2001: Aaliyah Dies in Plane Crash
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Despite rumors of Drake resurrecting her, Aaliyah, the R&B singer and one-time wife to R. Kelly when she was 15, was killed in a plane crash in Marsh Harbor, in the Abacos islands of the northern Bahamas.
The cause of the crash was attributed to the plane being too heavy.











