United Airlines, DC-6 (N37559)
The folks in this photo were the lucky ones. Two cards are available. One was mailed in 1954 with stamp and Cleveland postmark, and ink transfer on the front. The other, from North Dakota, with stamp and in the same condition. But … on 1st November 1955, while en route from Denver to Portland (Oregon), with 44 souls on board, a dynamite bomb exploded in the no. 4 baggage compartment and the plane went down over Longmont, Colorado. Nobody survived. Grades: 3 ($9.44 each – it’s to do with Chinese numerology).