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LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — On the Friday morning of Oct. 6, 1955, United Airlines Flight 409 left Denver International Airport with plans to land in Salt Lake City three hours later.
The plane never made it.
This week marks the 60th anniversary of Flight 409's crash into the east side of Medicine Bow Peak in southern Wyoming.
Sixty-three passengers and three crew members died when the four-engine propeller DC-4 aircraft crashed.
The Laramie Boomerang reports (http://bit.ly/1M3I3tN) that pieces of the destroyed aircraft litter the mountain base to this day.
Several theories formed about what caused the crash, but none were confirmed.
However, the investigation found that the flight was more than an hour late to start and the pilots purposely deviated from the normal flight path.
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Information from: Laramie Boomerang, http://www.laramieboomerang.com
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