Half-a-century before 9/11 and decades prior to the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, there was United Airlines Flight 629.
The sabotage of The Denver Mainliner was America’s first confirmed targeting of a civilian aircraft and it happened over a southwestern Weld County sugar beet field.
The six square miles of farmland where airplane parts and the bodies of 44 passengers and crew were scattered on Nov. 1, 1955, were cleaned up by Christmas. That Spring, farmers planted their crops on the land as if nothing ever happened…