![]() ![]() The crew members were identified with fingerprints forwarded to the FBI by United Air Lines officials five passengers were identified with fingerprints taken during their service in the Air Force, Army, and Navy six had been fingerprinted by reason of employment in defense plants during World War II, two had been U.S. A husband and wife from Canada were identified with fingerprints taken when they had applied for U.S. The remaining 35 bodies were fingerprinted and 21, or 60% of those fingerprinted, were positively identified with fingerprints contained in the vast files of the FBI.Īll of the 21 persons thus identified had been fingerprinted for various reasons during their lifetime and their fingerprints filed with the more than 109 million other sets in the civil section of the FBI fingerprint files. Upon the arrival of the FBI fingerprint experts, they learned that nine of the bodies had been identified by relatives and friends or by personal effects and had been removed from the armory. Fingerprint experts were dispatched from Washington, D.C., by plane, arriving at the scene of the crash on November 2.Īs the bodies were recovered, they were taken to Greeley, Colorado and placed in a temporary morgue set up in the National Guard Armory. Upon learning of the disaster, an official of the FBI immediately offered the services of the Bureau’s Identification Division in identifying the victims of the tragedy. Among the deceased was the wife of an aide to President Eisenhower. Eleven minutes later, the 39 passengers, including an infant and five crew members, were dead-killed instantly when the luxurious airliner crashed on a sugar beet farm near Longmont, Colorado. ![]()
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