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Medicine Bow Mystery: The Flight That Vanished Into the Peak
Medicine Bow Mystery: The Flight That Vanished Into the Peak
A mountain swallowed a four-engine airliner and left only two dark smears on a cliff face - oil stains pressed side by side fifty to seventy-five feet below Medicine Bow Peak's summit - and sixty-six people were lost. The Civil Aeronautics Board closed the file as "undetermined" after weighing four theories; what happened in the minutes before impact remains unanswered. How did a scheduled flight at ten thousand feet end up embedded in a peak that should not have been on its airway?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events…
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