A midair collision at the Grand Canyon killed over 100. ... its wreckage strewn over the southern cliff face of Chuar Butte. Flight 2 hit a rock face on the northeast terrace of Temple Butte.

Swiss climbers, brought in by United Airlines to assist with recovery efforts, rig a tramway over a crevasse to reach human remains and airplane parts that tumbled down from the shoulder on Chuar ...

The Chuar Group — a lithified sequence of Neoproterozoic sediments laid down in a shallow ocean in the Grand Canyon area, long before the Grand Canyon existed — contains abundant and ...

The 1956 collision over the Grand Canyon killed more than 100 people. At the time, it was the deadliest civilian plane crash and it remains one of the worst in U.S. history. Start the day smarter.