Walker County Airport (ICAO: KJFX, FAA LID: JFX, formerly L02), also known as Bevill Field, is a public airport located five miles (8 km) northwest of the central business district of Jasper, a city in Walker County, Alabama, United States.

[2] Walker County Airport covers an area of 297 acres (120 ha) which contains one runway (9/27) with a 5,003 x 100 ft (1,525 x 30 m) asphalt pavement.

For the 12-month period ending April 5, 2000, the airport had 33,616 aircraft operations, an average of 92 per day: 99.7% general aviation and 0.3% military.

The flight was carrying the East Tennessee State University basketball team to Oxford, Mississippi from Birmingham, Alabama.

Two of the 39 occupants of the Convair CV 440 airplane were seriously injured during the accident, 11 others received minor injuries.