What the records say
- When
- 17 Dec 1977
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 41.03° N, 111.88° W
- Description
- 1977 aviation accident in Utah, USA
- Deaths
- 3
- Cause
- controlled flight into terrain
United Airlines Flight 2860
1977 aviation accident in Utah
United Airlines Flight 2860 was a scheduled domestic cargo flight in the United States from San Francisco, California, to Chicago, Illinois, with an intermediate stop added at Salt Lake City, Utah. On December 18, 1977, operated by one of the airline's Douglas DC-8 Jet Traders, registration N8047U, the flight was in a holding pattern in Utah and crashed into a mountain in the Wasatch Range near Fruit Heights.
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