SALT LAKE CITY — On Nov. 11, 1965, a United Airlines plane crashed during an attempted landing at the then-Salt Lake City Municipal Airport, killing over half of its traveling passengers.

On that day, a Boeing 727, operating as Flight 227, departed from the LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York, to its final destination of the San Francisco International Airport.

According to the 1966 accident report by the Civil Aeronautics Board, Flight 227 was scheduled to have several intermediate stops, including at the Denver-Stapleton International Airport.

At 4:54 p.m.. Flight 227 left Denver for its next stop in Salt Lake City. About an hour later, Flight 227 crashed just 335 feet short of the runway of the airport, skidded across the ground, and combusted.

“I was about a mile away and there

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