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The Silent 65 Minutes: How NC13357 Vanished Over Wasatch Peaks
The Silent 65 Minutes: How NC13357 Vanished Over Wasatch Peaks
Two wristwatches stopped at 3:05 PM at the crash site, and eight people had boarded a United Air Lines Boeing 247 in Salt Lake City at 2:00 PM - then 65 minutes of silence. How did a well‑flown pilot with 7,000 hours and a second crewman vanish into the Wasatch in weather described as the worst in the region without leaving a single determinative clue?
In this episode, we tell the documented record of United Air Lines flight NC13357: who was aboard, the mountain and weather the flight encountered, the search that followed, and the…
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