United Airlines Flight 629

When

1 Nov 1955

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

40.20° N, 104.96° W

Description

flight

Deaths

44

Flight that exploded over Longmont, Colorado in November 1955

United Air Lines Flight 629, registration N37559 and dubbed Mainliner Denver, was a Douglas DC-6B aircraft that was blown up on November 1, 1955, by a dynamite bomb placed in the checked luggage. The explosion occurred over Weld County, Colorado, United States, 8 miles (13 km) east of Longmont, at 7:03 p.m. local time, while the airplane was en route from Denver to Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington.

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