What the records say
- When
- 11 Jul 1961
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 39.76° N, 104.89° W
- Description
- crash of a US airliner in 1961
- Deaths
- 17
United Air Lines Flight 859
1961 aviation accident
United Airlines Flight 859 was a Douglas DC-8, registration N8040U, on a scheduled passenger flight that crashed on landing at Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado after departing from Omaha, Nebraska's Eppley Airfield on July 11, 1961. Eighteen people were killed, and 84 were injured.
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