United Airlines Flight 629 departed the Stapleton Airport in Denver, Colorado at 6:52 pm on Tuesday, November 1st, 1955. Just 11 minutes later at 7:03 pm, just as the plane reached 10,000 feet, it suddenly disappeared from Air Traffic Radar. Meanwhile, residents of Longmont, Colorado heard an explosion in the skies overhead. Their windows rattled and they saw a bright ball of fire in the sky. They heard plane engines, even as they saw they saw those engines crashing to the ground below. Farmers and their families rushed to the site of the crash, but there was no way that they could know that this wasn’t a tragic accident. In fact, they had just witnessed the largest mass murder ever seen in the state of Colorado.
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Jack Gilbert Graham from FBI.gov
The United Flight 629 bombing and how Denver7 forever changed courtroom coverage in Colorado from Denver7
AGC History: Tragic 1955 Plane Crash Claimed Industry Leaders' Lives from Associated General Contractors of America
Mass murder in the sky: John Gilbert Graham and United Flight 629 from The Denver Post
Victims en route to varied locations from The Denver Post
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