Aftermath
With a death toll of 134, the accident was the deadliest U.S. commercial aviation disaster at the time, topping the 1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision that killed 128. That collision also involved a TWA Super Constellation and a Douglas aircraft (a DC-7) operated by United. There were 128 people aboard the two planes in both collisions.
Filmmaker and critic Hollis Frampton was scheduled to be on the United flight, but decided to delay his return to New York for one day in order to see a retrospective of the work of Edward Weston in Minneapolis; he said of this decision that he was "never...able to decide whether Weston tried to kill me, or saved my life."
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