Alfredo Gilberto Mitotes
Medicine Bow, Wyoming, United States
Date of Birth: 09/17/1938
Date of Death: 10/06/1955
From: Denver, Colorado
Death Location: Medicine Bow Peak, near Laramie, Wyoming
Find A Grave – Flight 409 Memorial
Boarded at Denver. Destination Oakland, Calif. Home: Denver, Colorado.
United Airlines Flight 409 was a scheduled flight departing from Denver, Colorado to Salt Lake City, Utah on October 6, 1955. The aircraft registration number was N30062, a Douglas DC-4 propliner. The aircraft crashed into Medicine Bow Peak, near Centennial, Wyoming, killing all 66 people on board (63 passengers, 3 crew members). The victims included five female members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and military personnel. At the time, this was the deadliest airline crash in the history of American commercial aviation.