A United Air Lines Douglas DC-4, similar to the aircraft involved in the incident
Accident
Date
October 6, 1955
Summary
Controlled flight into terrain
Site
Medicine Bow Peak, Carbon County, near Centennial, Wyoming, United States 41°20′42″N106°19′45″W / 41.34504°N 106.32906°W / 41.34504; -106.32906
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Douglas DC-4
Operator
United Airlines
Registration
N30062
Flight origin
New York City, New York
1st stopover
Chicago, Illinois
2nd stopover
Denver, Colorado
Last stopover
Salt Lake City, Utah
Destination
San Francisco, California
Passengers
63
Crew
3
Fatalities
66
Survivors
0
United Air Lines Flight 409 was a scheduled flight which originated in New York City, New York. The final flight destination was San Francisco, California, with stops in Chicago, Denver and Salt Lake City. The aircraft operating the service, a Douglas DC-4 propliner, registration N30062,[1] crashed into Medicine Bow Peak, near Laramie, Wyoming, on October 6, 1955, killing all 66 people on board (63 passengers, 3 crew members). The victims included five female members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and military personnel.[2] At the time, this was the deadliest airline crash in the history of American commercial aviation.[2][3] Another 66 lives had been lost earlier that year in the March 22 crash in Hawaii of a United States Navy Douglas R6D-1 Liftmaster military transport aircraft,[4] and 66 had also died in the mid-air collision of two United States Air Force C-119G Flying Boxcars over West Germany (1955 Altensteig mid-air collision) on August 11, placing the three crashes in a three-way tie as the deadliest aviation incidents in 1955.[5][6]
^"FAA Registry (N30062)". Federal Aviation Administration.
^ ab"Disasters: Waiting Room". TIME. October 17, 1955. Archived from the original on December 15, 2008.
^"Wyoming Crash Toll Leads List". The Spokesman-Review. Spokane, WA. AP. October 7, 1955. p. 1.
^Aviation Safety Network Aircraft Accident Douglas R6D-1 (DC-6) 131612 Honolulu, HI
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