The region where the United Airlines and Air Force aircraft went down has experienced other major airliner crashes . In 1942 movie star Carole Lombard and 21 others died in the mountainside crash of TWA Flight 3 , about WSW of where United Airlines Flight 736 crashed . In 1964 , 29 people lost their lives when Bonanza Air Lines Flight 114 flew into a hilltop SW of the United Airlines impact site ; the F-100F crashed in the same area of desert hills as the Bonanza Air Lines flight
Bonanza Air Lines Flight 114
Bonanza Air Lines Flight 114
United Airlines Flight 736