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- 1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion abstract "On October 10, 1933, a Boeing 247 propliner operated by United Air Lines and registered as NC13304, crashed near Chesterton, Indiana. The transcontinental flight, carrying three crew and four passengers, had originated in Newark, New Jersey, with its final destination in Oakland, California. It had already landed in Cleveland and was headed to its next stop in Chicago when it exploded en route. All aboard died in the crash, which was proven to have been deliberately caused by an on-board explosive device.Eyewitnesses on the ground reported hearing an explosion shortly after 9 p.m., and saw the plane in flames at an altitude of about 1,000 feet (300 m). A second explosion followed after the plane crashed. The crash scene was adjacent to a gravel road about 5 miles (8 km) outside of Chesterton, centered in a wooded area on the Jackson Township farm of James Smiley.Investigators who combed through the debris were confronted with unusual evidence: The toilet and baggage compartment had been smashed into fragments. Shards of metal riddled the inside of the toilet door while the other side was free of the metal fragments. The tail section had been severed just aft of the toilet and was found mostly intact almost a mile away from the main wreckage.Melvin Purvis, head of the Chicago office of the United States Bureau of Investigation described the damage, "Our investigation convinced me that the tragedy resulted from an explosion somewhere in the region of the baggage compartment in the rear of the plane. Everything in front of the compartment was blown forward, everything behind blown backward, and things at the side outward." He also noted: "The gasoline tanks, instead of being blown out, were crushed in, showing there was no explosion in them."An investigator from the Porter County coroner's office, Dr. Carl Davis, and experts from the Crime Detection Laboratory at Northwestern Universityexamined evidence from the crash, and concluded that the crash had been caused by a bomb, with nitroglycerin as the probable explosive agent. One of the passengers was seen carrying a brown package onto the plane in Newark, but investigators who found the package amidst the wreckage ruled it out as being the cause of the explosion. A rifle was found in the wreckage but it was determined to have been carried aboard as baggage for a passenger who was en route to attend a shoot at Chicago's North Shore Gun Club. Despite the efforts of the investigators, no suspect was ever identified or charged in this incident, and it remains unsolved. This is thought to be the first proven act of air sabotage in the history of commercial aviation.Pilot Captain Terrant, his co-pilot, flight attendant Alice Scribner and all four passengers were killed. Scribner was the first United flight attendant to be killed in a plane crash.".
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- 1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion wikiPageWikiLinkText "1933 United Airlines Boeing 247 mid-air explosion".
- 1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion wikiPageWikiLinkText "A bomb destroys".
- 1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion wikiPageWikiLinkText "NC13304".
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- 1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion wikiPageWikiLinkText "United Airlines crash near Chesterton".
- 1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion wikiPageWikiLinkText "exploded in mid-air".
- 1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion wikiPageWikiLinkText "first proven case of sabotage of a commercial airliner".
- 1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion aircraftType Boeing_247.
- 1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion caption "Restored Boeing 247 in United Air Lines livery, similar to the crashed aircraft. This one is on display at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum.".
- 1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion crew "3".
- 1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion date "1933-10-10".
- 1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion destination "Oakland, California".
- 1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion fatalities "7".
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- 1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion lastStopover "Chicago, Illinois".
- 1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion name "United Air Lines Boeing 247, NC13304".
- 1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion operator "United Air Lines".
- 1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion origin "Newark, New Jersey".
- 1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion passengers "4".
- 1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion site "Jackson Township, Porter County, near Chesterton, Indiana, United States".
- 1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion stopover "Cleveland, Ohio".
- 1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion survivors "0".
- 1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion tailNumber "NC13304".
- 1933_United_Airlines_Boeing_247_mid-air_explosion type "Sabotage via probable nitroglycerin bomb".
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