Zega: I was flipping through a 944 magazine when I came across this article featuring a stunning Indian beauty I had never seen before. I learned she is a model named Padma Lakshmi and she was the host on Bravo's reality show 'Top Chef'. The article was written to promote some new cook book of hers, but the whole time I was reading, my eyes couldn't help diverting back to the huge, 7-inch scar on her upper arm - and there was no mention of it anywhere on the page! I figured a scar like that had to be blurg-worthy, so I did a little digging and found a story, in her own words, of how it happened and what it is like to be a flawed model in an industry that worships perfection.

The accident happened on a Sunday afternoon filled with sunshine. I was fourteen years old and on my way back with my parents from a Hindu temple in Malibu. The traffic was quite heavy for a Sunday. I remember thinking how strange that was. Then there was a loud bang, and I looked out the windshield and saw nothing but the prettiest blue sky. I thought I was dreaming because I'd been nodding off, but then I realized we were part of that blue sky. Our red Ford Mercury sedan was airborne. Flying in a car felt like an exhilarating hallucination, an unbelievable ride that oddly remains one of the most beautiful images in my memory....

Lynyrd Skynyrd was one of the most critically acclaimed Southern Rock groups (although the term did not exist at the time they formed) of the 1970's and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as of March 13, 2006. Their distinctive triple-lead guitar sound made their songs "Free Bird", and "Sweet Home Alabama" American anthems and staples of FM radio. The band was at it’s peak under the leadership of vocalist and primary songwriter Ronnie Van Zant when he died, along with several other members of the band, in a plane crash in 1977.

This is the story of that fateful plane crash told by Artimus Pyle, the drummer for the band, when he appeared on the Howard Stern Show on February 12^th, 2007.

Even 30 years later, Pyle still became emotional when recounting the events and the death of his lead singer and friend, Van Zant. Stern fans were quick to agree that this was one of the best interviews Howard has ever done in his 20+ years of radio while some even went so far to say this was the most compelling piece of radio ever on Howard’s show.