Payne Stewart in Plane Crash On this day, in 1999 golf pro Payne Stewart and five other passengers in his twin-engine Learjet 35 were killed when it finally crashed in South Dakota well of course hours after it took off from Orlando. October 25, 1999 Sport: Golf Trivia What Are the Five Events That Make Up the Modern Olympic Pentathon? Which Nations Won the Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals the Last Time Baseball Was an Olympic Sport? sports in this article Golf tags in this article Fan On This Day SportsEngine