Date: October 11th, 1955
Type: DC-4
Registration: -
Operator: United Airlines
Where: Medicine Bow Peak,Laramie, Wyoming
Report No. -
Report Date: -
Pages: -


This is not an Investigation Abstract


Extract THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
        BY CHRISTOPHER SMITH 16th February, 1997
  
   
  Bound from Denver for Salt Lake City, the DC-4 airliner slammed nose-first
  into the peak 40 miles west of Laramie on Oct. 6, 1955. All 66 people aboard
  died, including 21 Utahns. Medicine Bow Peak is a horn of granite that cuts
  12,000 feet into the Wyoming sky.

  It was the worst commercial air disaster in U.S. history at the time. 
  
  Mel Duncan, a retired pilot and historian from Cheyenne who compiled much of the
  research on Flight 409 said: ''This crash created a new awareness that we needed full 
  radar coverage throughout the United States, not just for military, but for all 
  aircraft.''