Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

FILE - In this July 5, 1956 file photo, reporter Al Thrasher inspects the wreckage of a United Airlines UAL DC-7, which collided into a TWA Constellation on June 30, 1956, killing all 128 persons on board both planes, after it was brought out of the Grand Canyon. On Tuesday, July 8, 2014, the Grand Canyon National Park will mark the designation of the crash site as a National Historic Landmark in a ceremony overlooking the gorge where the wreckage was scattered over 1.5 square miles.

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FILE - In this July 5, 1956 file photo, reporter Al Thrasher inspects the wreckage of a United Airlines UAL DC-7, which collided into a TWA Constellation on June 30, 1956, killing all 128 persons on board both planes, after it was brought out of the Grand Canyon. On Tuesday, July 8, 2014, the Grand Canyon National Park will mark the designation of the crash site as a National Historic Landmark in a ceremony overlooking the gorge where the wreckage was scattered over 1.5 square miles.