The plane, N-37559, presumably had left Denver at 6:52 p.m. today and removed to a temporary morgue at the National Guard armory in Greeley.Īirline officials declined to speculate on what happened to the plane, but numerous witnesses were in agreement that the fiery airliner exploded in mid-air, some of them say about 1,500 feet above the terrain, then burn brighter and brighter as it plummeted to the ground, where a second explosion occurred. Tuesday, were recovered from the wreckage by 8 a.m. Longmont area’s worst disaster: 44 killed in plane crashīodies of 44 persons, including a baby boy, who lost their lives when the United Airlines Mainliner DC-6B, bound from Denver to Portland, plunged, flaming, into the earth on the Jake Heil farm, eight miles east of Longmont in Weld County, at 7:03 p.m. ![]() ![]() ![]() What follows is the transcript of the main portion of the news story that was published on Nov.
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