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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Colleen Slevin

70 years after the first sabotage of a US airliner, the 44 killed are finally being honored

Dynamited Airliner 1955 - (Copyright 1955 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

The windows shook as dynamite aboard an airplane exploded over Conrad Hopp's family farm in northern Colorado 70 years ago.

Hopp, then 18 years old, saw a ball of fire streaking across the night sky and rushed with his brother toward where the burning wreckage came down, dodging objects that turned out to be the bodies of victims of the first confirmed case of sabotage against a commercial U.S. airliner.

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