Building a future memorial to the United Flight 629 tragedy in Weld County.
Honoring unsung heroes across America
The proposed design
United Airlines Flight 629, a DC-6B bound for Portland had taken off from Denver’s Stapleton Airport at 6:52 p.m.
on November 1, 1955.
Just eleven minutes into its flight, the state-of-the art airliner exploded around 6,000 feet above the ground, raining down burning wreckage across six-square miles around Longmont.
That cold horrific November night became known as the deadliest act of mass murder in Colorado statehood history, killing all 44 people on board – a five-person crew and 39 passengers, including a 13-month-old boy.
As 70 years since the tragedy approaches, there is a push to create a permanent memorial to honor the victims, first responders and the community that came together.
The video below is the proposed design of the Flight 629 memorial.
FLIGHT 629 TRAGEDY
A daughter’s perspective:
The explosion of United Air Lines Flight 629, 67 years ago on November 1, 1955 was the first attack on a commercial airline in United States. It was also the deadliest act of mass murder in Colorado history, killing all 44 people on board.
And after all these years, the daughter of one of the victims onboard the doomed flight visited the Colorado field where her father died to honor his memory and thank the first responders from that terrible night.
Marian Poeppelmeyer wrote a book titled: 'Finding My Father: Beyond Tragedy, Through Trauma, and Into Freedom' as a way to help her heal. She is sharing her story in the hopes that it might help others.
“Create an environment that feels very meditative and prayerful,”
— Sarah DeAngulo Hout | Flight 629 Memorial Design Artist
