Excerpt from the Hartford (CT) Courant published 20 Nov 1955, page 25
Louise Bunch of Forest Grove, Ore., considered herself "lucky" to get a last-minute reservation. She was 61 and a tireless church worker--the daughter of a Methodist minister, widow of a Methodist minister, and mother of a Methodist minister.
Two eleventh-hour changes in plans put her aboard Flight 629. First, her committee for the Women's Society for Christian Service completed its work ahead of schedule at Colorado Springs. She could return home a day early.
When the airport confirmed her last-minute Portland booking, she canceled her overnight reservation at a Colorado Springs hotel.
Over the past nine years, Mrs. Bunch had made flying church work trips throughout the country. She was much too busy ever to think about death, her married daughter, Mrs. Aris Gustafson, said in Forest Grove.
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SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_629
United Airlines Flight 629, registration N37559, was a Douglas DC-6B passenger aircraft, nicknamed "Mainliner Denver," which was blown up with a dynamite bomb placed in the checked luggage. The explosion occurred over Longmont, Colorado, while the airplane was en route from Denver, Colorado, to Portland, Oregon, and on to Seattle, Washington, on November 1, 1955. All 39 passengers and 5 crew members on board were killed in the explosion and crash.
Investigators determined that Jack Gilbert Graham was responsible for bombing the airplane to kill his mother, a passenger on the flight, and obtain a large life-insurance policy payout on her. He was tried, convicted, and executed for his crime.
Louise Bunch of Forest Grove, Ore., considered herself "lucky" to get a last-minute reservation. She was 61 and a tireless church worker--the daughter of a Methodist minister, widow of a Methodist minister, and mother of a Methodist minister.
Two eleventh-hour changes in plans put her aboard Flight 629. First, her committee for the Women's Society for Christian Service completed its work ahead of schedule at Colorado Springs. She could return home a day early.
When the airport confirmed her last-minute Portland booking, she canceled her overnight reservation at a Colorado Springs hotel.
Over the past nine years, Mrs. Bunch had made flying church work trips throughout the country. She was much too busy ever to think about death, her married daughter, Mrs. Aris Gustafson, said in Forest Grove.
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SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_629
United Airlines Flight 629, registration N37559, was a Douglas DC-6B passenger aircraft, nicknamed "Mainliner Denver," which was blown up with a dynamite bomb placed in the checked luggage. The explosion occurred over Longmont, Colorado, while the airplane was en route from Denver, Colorado, to Portland, Oregon, and on to Seattle, Washington, on November 1, 1955. All 39 passengers and 5 crew members on board were killed in the explosion and crash.
Investigators determined that Jack Gilbert Graham was responsible for bombing the airplane to kill his mother, a passenger on the flight, and obtain a large life-insurance policy payout on her. He was tried, convicted, and executed for his crime.
Excerpt from the Hartford (CT) Courant published 20 Nov 1955, page 25
Louise Bunch of Forest Grove, Ore., considered herself "lucky" to get a last-minute reservation. She was 61 and a tireless church worker--the daughter of a Methodist minister, widow of a Methodist minister, and mother of a Methodist minister.
Two eleventh-hour changes in plans put her aboard Flight 629. First, her committee for the Women's Society for Christian Service completed its work ahead of schedule at Colorado Springs. She could return home a day early.
When the airport confirmed her last-minute Portland booking, she canceled her overnight reservation at a Colorado Springs hotel.
Over the past nine years, Mrs. Bunch had made flying church work trips throughout the country. She was much too busy ever to think about death, her married daughter, Mrs. Aris Gustafson, said in Forest Grove.
____________________
SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_629
United Airlines Flight 629, registration N37559, was a Douglas DC-6B passenger aircraft, nicknamed "Mainliner Denver," which was blown up with a dynamite bomb placed in the checked luggage. The explosion occurred over Longmont, Colorado, while the airplane was en route from Denver, Colorado, to Portland, Oregon, and on to Seattle, Washington, on November 1, 1955. All 39 passengers and 5 crew members on board were killed in the explosion and crash.
Investigators determined that Jack Gilbert Graham was responsible for bombing the airplane to kill his mother, a passenger on the flight, and obtain a large life-insurance policy payout on her. He was tried, convicted, and executed for his crime.
Louise Bunch of Forest Grove, Ore., considered herself "lucky" to get a last-minute reservation. She was 61 and a tireless church worker--the daughter of a Methodist minister, widow of a Methodist minister, and mother of a Methodist minister.
Two eleventh-hour changes in plans put her aboard Flight 629. First, her committee for the Women's Society for Christian Service completed its work ahead of schedule at Colorado Springs. She could return home a day early.
When the airport confirmed her last-minute Portland booking, she canceled her overnight reservation at a Colorado Springs hotel.
Over the past nine years, Mrs. Bunch had made flying church work trips throughout the country. She was much too busy ever to think about death, her married daughter, Mrs. Aris Gustafson, said in Forest Grove.
____________________
SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_629
United Airlines Flight 629, registration N37559, was a Douglas DC-6B passenger aircraft, nicknamed "Mainliner Denver," which was blown up with a dynamite bomb placed in the checked luggage. The explosion occurred over Longmont, Colorado, while the airplane was en route from Denver, Colorado, to Portland, Oregon, and on to Seattle, Washington, on November 1, 1955. All 39 passengers and 5 crew members on board were killed in the explosion and crash.
Investigators determined that Jack Gilbert Graham was responsible for bombing the airplane to kill his mother, a passenger on the flight, and obtain a large life-insurance policy payout on her. He was tried, convicted, and executed for his crime.
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