Tag: Stapleton Airport

• America’s First Trial by TV: The Bombing of Flight 629

  

  At Denver’s Stapleton Airport, United Airlines Flight 629 bound for Alaska is cleared for take-off at 6:52 p.m. on November 1, 1955, 15 minutes after its scheduled departure time the “Mainliner” makes a perfectly normal take-off and disappears out of sight. Eleven minutes later it explodes near the town of Longmont and wreckage is strewn…

  CrimeScribe

  May 11, 2021

  History, Press And Politics, True Crime, Uncategorized

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