About the project

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.