DENVER – It’s was right around 7 p.m. on November 1, 1955 when passengers of United Flight 629 settled into the DC-6 for the the trip from Denver’s Stapleton Airport to Portland.
Minutes later, controllers in the tower saw a bright flash in the northwest sky as the dark reality of what would become the first sabotage of a U.S. airliner became part of Weld County’s story.
The airliner broke up and fell into the field and farmland as ordinary residents and first responders rushed to the chaos…