On the night of 10 October 1933 a United Air Lines Boeing 247 blew up in the air over Chesterton, Indiana. Seven people aboard. All dead.
It is the first proven act of air sabotage in the history of commercial aviation. It has never been solved.
The file sat with the FBI for 84 years. 324 documents were declassified only on 16 November 2017, and no suspect was ever named.
What the wreckage said: nitroglycerin, probably; the tail severed just aft of the toilet and thrown almost a mile, with two bodies beside it. A passenger's brown package and a rifle turned out to be nothing. The man running the inquiry was Melvin Purvis — ten months before Dillinger.
Full piece + sources: https://telegra.ph/The-first-airliner-bombing-in-history-was-on-this-day-in-1933-and-it-was-never-solved-10-10
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