Dynamited Airliner 1955
FILE - United Airlines official W.C. Mentzer points in Denver toward the reconstructed baggage compartment on Nov. 17, 1955, where officials believe the blast which caused the United Airlines plane to crash on Nov. 1, 1955.
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A memorial to 44 people who died in the first confirmed case of sabotage against a U.S. airliner is being dedicated on the 70th anniversary of its bombing over Colorado. A farmer who helped recover the bodies of those killed and a woman who lost her father, who have recently become friends, will be among those there for Saturday's ceremony in Denver. Attention on the dramatic details of the bombing, the lack of a federal law making it a crime to attack a plane and the meticulous investigation into what happened has overshadowed attention on the victims and those they left behind until now.