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Show Al0 The Salt Lake Tri € Downed Plane, mother’s $150,000 estate — he spent $1.50 ending machi: ave goodbye kiss mom, who hadbeen er his bad checks, t i flight frot her daughter in Awareness @ Continued from A-1 airport ig that has stuck with the Il these years. ) compiled much of the ré ‘light 409: “This cra ness that we neede all radar coverage throughout the United States. not just for military, but for all air craft rashed ina time be awsuits and at a e so remote that college stu ) belongedto an “outing nited to help sher i National Gu d im recovery ofvic have forgotten f wreckage and body WT ength of five oily engines ir the mountaintop to tion lodged in acrevice » immediately obvi re wasn't anyone we yrry about as far as life Fost cerned,” recalls Bob he first to climb n't tot any live people th were 66 i San arnage that Sot a e time a col er and now head of ication sys: tem. purp rgot muchof Others speculs where Instead of crashing in the Wyoming mountains, it exploded about 40 miles north of Denver over Longmont Colo. plunging into a sugar-beet fi id nd killing all 44 people aboard ntually confessed the bomb to kill hi mothe and collect the life insurance He was executed in Colorado's gas chamber InaHitchcoe so im of the rash volunteers 1 year later, the compan asked the Wyoming group to help with another ‘ous recovery — the June midair collision of two iners over the Grand Canyon. 3 people sen the Wyoming crash of Flig ht 409 and the Grand Canyon disaster was Airlines p t another United rash in Coloradc indirectly related to the Medicine Bow tragedy. John Gilbert Gra was a convicted bootleg d check forger in who apparently used the Denve crash of Flight 409 for morbidinspiration. lew up a United DC-6B on 1 less than a month Nov. after the Medicine Bow disaste In a dubbed case that prosecutors “matricide for money Graham was ordered to pay 4.200 restitution for checks he ad forg t the money — cine Bow Wyomin Peak in southeastern killed 66 people, in 1 residents. HistoUniversity of ing are » gathering remem: brances of the tragedy from fam ily me fnbe rs of the victims. Con tact Rick Ewig at the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82070 These in the are the Utahns who died crash @ Patricia Shuttleworth, 22 Salt Lake City, the plane's flight attendant who had moved to Utah six months earlier from Trum bull, Conn Salt Lake ( native and Smurth: waite's who recently sister had moved to Los Angeles Dorothy Beck, 42, Murra Tabernacle Choir member @ Betty Seare, 28, Bountiful Tabernacle Choir member Ma pn Kirk, 35, Salt City, a Tabernacle Choir memt mother of three and sister-in-law of Betty Seare B® Aceodene Schow > : Jounti move off to the west of the oot across there a that you car Duncan says lot It's hard to look this tragedy from any good point. but Flight 409 really made some ck air safety that wetak today,” says Duncan ciety, we were shocked that more than 200 people showed up, be causewe usually d z 20 or30 people,” he says was an event that shaped many people’s lives. We see as a large step towa some kind of marker up there so it’s not fo That study resulted in crashof t 409 into Medicine ject of mystery and conjecture Flight 409 Capt. Clinton C had been reprimanded and had flown the Denver-to-Salt Lake le; of the transcontinental flight 45 times in previous year But Cooke was more than 20 miles off course when th plowed into the side Bow Peak. The desi path was north from Denverover Cheyenne, then northwest toward Laramie and west to Salt Lake City, skirting the towering Medi $69 $319 Pentax 1Q 115m 35 5mm camera package Reg. 369.99 cine Bow Range. An unpressurizedaircraft, the DC-4 was not to exceed 12,000 feet altitude and with all but one seat filled, would struggle to reach the recommended 14,000 feet to safely clear the mountains. Some believe Cooke was at tempting a shortcut, since Flight 409 left Denver at 6:33 a.m. Oct an hour and 23 minutes late But expert testimony during a 1957 CAB hearing in Denver claimed that a shorteut over the Medicine Bow rang would shave only three minutes from the flight time to Salt Lake, due to the time required to get the plane up to the necessaryaltitude Historian Duncan who has ful, and @ City, $209* $129* Pentax 1Q Z om EZY Reg. 189.99 5mm camera Pentax 1Q 9OWR 35mm ¢ amera Reg 299.99 a Tabernacle Choir member mother of six James A. Bush, 31, Salt Lake a pediatrics instructor at the University of Utah and father of who was returning home from a medical association meet four ing in Chicago MGeorgie Bradshaw West 69 Salt Lake City. He was returning home after visiting relat es in Flint, Michigan. @ Earl West, 36, Salt Lake City son of Georgie Bradshaw West Binez C. ans of Salt Lake ‘ City, mother of a 2-year-old son. She worked at ZCMI Wholesale. @Gerald Hadley, 22, Brigham City. The Army privatefirst class was returning home frommilitary duty in Germany to be dis daugher, Sydney Lee, whom he Salt Lak 4 group of Mormon bers ) were returning home from European concert tour BEdna Folsom Hanks, 53, a Ive flown that area many re is a depression, 4 lower spot on the ridge times and 409will lead toa monumentbeing creation of the Fec de Avia tion Administra The FAA's Civil Aeronav Board (CA launched an investigation into the ing husband and father, Darrell L. Tucker, a second lieutenant in the Army 47 a military and private pilot, spec ulates that Cookewas treetop-fly ing through the cloud-shrouded Medicine Bow Range. rather than over it Ewigof the University of Wyo: ming hopes the exhibit on Flight isenhowerto order viation safety in Febru. charged @Richard Hawkins, 22 Smurthwaite, placed near the crash s When Mel came last year to speak to our county historic al so- opening. n airlines, prompti confidence une Louise Clifton Tucker 24 1, and her 22-month-old daughter, Deborah, were return ing from Fort Lee, Va., after visit @RKhea F. oneofthe four propellers was not spinning on The Airline Pilots Associ w ed a more detailed inve stig tion that would exonerate Cooke. Center out West was underminin, On a Wyoming Mountain HE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE The Oct. 6, 1955, crash of Unit ed Airlines Flight 409 into Medi speak Tuesday at the exhibit rican Heritage policy before she boarded the doomed flight The rash of de: licized commercial plane A Quick Look at 21 Utahns Who MetTheir Fate BY CHRISTOPHER SMITH RICK EWIG ing pilots weretrying desperately to clear the mountain. CAB investigators determined all four engines were operating at the timeof the c though a logger who spotted the aircraft shortly before the crash testified but the CAB reluctantly placed blame for the disaster on thepilogged more than 15,000 hoursas for improving air safety.’ high attitude on impact, indicat style twist of fate, the flight insurance from the vending ma chine would have been void any way because Grahamforgot to have his mother countersign the Cooke, 35, was one of United’s most experienced pilots — he had nearly 10,000 flying hour Ss, never Keplar says Designatedflight path = ~~ Path of plane But the plane’s takeoff was de- 1 can remember things like the person who was the most ‘ognizable was black sailor who was in the back of the plane ad to be in the back you could actually care to remember,” to carbonfroma cock crash andtheplanewasin a nose- cafe Bow Peak To this day, the causes behindthedisaster remain a sub week monoxidepoisoning evidence to back that theory — the heater was destroyed in the approximately the layed. the crew was the time of the pit combustionheater. There is no ordeal ure there are some thing: that I blacked out, I just don't the incapacitated 4 crash, perhaps to his hidden 25 sticks of dynamite in his mother’s suitcase disguised as a Christmas present, an addition that cost her $27.01 in overweight lug 2 charges. He had set a tim. er so the bomb would explode in over Wyc went down This was the first in a series of Westernairline disasters that prompted the government to begin to look at what sort of regulations were needed was routine r of two had nd there is no en identify a an idea of how For lege } Wyom ed pilots who say that shortcut ‘ess he had a tion aah would not see a retired pi- $$ I'vetalked to some retired Unit Remembering Flight 409 -— f tin buy $37 500 w nce oj his mother at anair to Heightened UTAH/NATION Sunday. February 16, 1997 $79 $269 Olympus Stylus Zoom Reg. 349.99 0) 5mm camer a :; Olympus Infinity Mini 35mm camera : Reg. 129.99| ' i { , ka. The Army corporal was com ing home from Germany to his wife, Peggy, and 9-month-old never had seen. @J. Lawrence Malnar, Neola in Duchesne Coun 25, of 3=: = hie* was returning home after 4 ing a World Series game. @ Myron Neil Manwill, 20, Pay son BLowell J. Rackham, 25 Og den, apilot returning fromdeliv eringa plane to Florida. He had told family members he would live and die in an airplane. @ Edward P. Taylor, 33, Provo BM Charles R, Anstadt, 33, an Air Force captain stationed at Hill Air Force Bas BLewis D. Woods, 25, Michi yan. The staff sergeant was sta tioned at Hill Air Foree Base eo ‘Ono ty tein Sa tava sft) SU ZMH LObbH nastier iy Lit VN Dee US, TBO? Visit us on the intemet at www. zomi.com |