Tag: Flight 629

  • Remembering Colorado’s Flight 629

    Remembering Colorado’s Flight 629

    Half-a-century before 9/11 and decades prior to the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, there was United Airlines Flight 629. The sabotage of The Denver Mainliner was America’s first confirmed targeting of a civilian aircraft and it happened over a southwestern Weld County sugar beet field. The six square miles of farmland…