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UAL Flight 610, June 1951, Ghosts Claim Sabotage

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I am Capt. Appleby's daughter. In December, 2011, I received a stunning email from a stranger addressing the issue of  UAL 610 crash on Crystal Mountain, Colorado in June, 1951.  To better understand this email, you could read the brief compilation of my research of the disaster, uploaded in 2005 at  www.coloradowreckchasing.com . Click on Civilian flights, then Crystal Mountain, DC-6B, then look for “Capt. Appleby’s daughter…”  The mystery still hanging over the crash is, was Flight 610 hijacked by an intruder into the cockpit and deliberately flown into Crystal Mountain in the Colorado Rockies? This question is close to my heart since my father was the captain of UAL 610, which killed all aboard, including two military couriers, both carrying important documents pertaining to the war and to atomic secret files. Several important documents (27 out of 40) disappeared from the crash site.   My late aunt and uncle, Mary and Hervey Froelich, told me in June, 1999 that W. A. Patterson,