Drummer Joey Covington, a co-founding member of the Jefferson Airplane spin-off group Hot Tuna, was killed when the car he was driving collided head-on with a wall in Palm Springs, California.  Witnesses saw no evidence that the brakes were applied between the time the drummer's car left the road and impacted the wall.  Covington, who became the Airplane drummer after Spencer Dryden departed in 1970, joined with group members Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen in forming Hot Tuna, the blues infused, eclectic, electric and acoustic side project of  the Airplane. Covington was 67.

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