United Airlines Flight 2860
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United Airlines Flight 2860 was a scheduled domestic cargo flight in the United States from San Francisco, California, to Chicago, Illinois, with an intermediate stop added at Salt Lake City, Utah. On December 18, 1977, operated by one of the airline's Douglas DC-8 Jet Traders, registration N8047U, the flight was in a holding pattern in Utah and crashed into a mountain in the Wasatch Range near Fruit Heights. All three crew members, the only occupants of the plane, were killed in the accident.
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Little Canyon Trail,
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| N 41.028 ° | E -111.875 ° |
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Little Canyon Trail
Little Canyon Trail
84037
Utah, United States
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