50 DEAD IN AIR CRASH
BIG PLANE FOUND IN ROCKY MOUNTAINS (R e c - 11 P.m.) NEW YORK, June 30. Forty-five passengers and the five members of the crew were killed early this morning when a D.C 6 airliner, operated bv United Airlines, crashed in the Rocky Mountains National Park on a flight from San Francisco to Chicago. The passengers included one family of five. When the airliner was two hours overdue at Cheyenne, Wyoming a wide search began. A search plane spotted the wreckage and a ground party which climbed to the scene radioed a report that all aboard had died. Wreckage was scattered on the mountain slope for more than 200 yards. The Civil Aeronautics Administration said it had no information on what caused the crash, but added that the wreckage was found 40 miles off the airliner’s course.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26462, 2 July 1951, Page 7
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