| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Date | May 22, 1962 |
| Type | Bombing |
| Site | Unionville, Missouri |
| Passengers | 37 |
| Crew | 8 |
| Injuries | 0 |
| Fatalities | 45 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 707 |
| Operator | Continental Airlines |
| Tail number | N70775 |
| Flight origin | O'Hare International Airport |
| Destination | Kansas City Downtown Airport |
Continental Airlines Flight 11, registration N70775, was a Boeing 707 aircraft which exploded close to Centerville, Iowa while en route from O'Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois, to Kansas City, Missouri on May 22, 1962. Events 334 BC - The Greek army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Unionville is a city in Putnam County, Missouri, United States. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Continental Airlines Inc ( is a United States certificated air carrier. An aircraft registration is a unique Alphanumeric string that identifies an Aircraft, in similar fashion to a licence plate on an automobile Charles B Wheeler Downtown Airport, also known as Kansas City Downtown Airport, is a public Airport located in Kansas City, Clay County Continental Airlines Inc ( is a United States certificated air carrier. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Centerville is a city in Appanoose County, Iowa, United States. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Kansas City Missouri only Items for the metro area Kansas City Kansas or North Kansas City MO should go on their respective pages Events 334 BC - The Greek army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The aircraft crashed in a clover field near Unionville in Putnam County, Missouri, killing all 45 crew and passengers on board. Unionville is a city in Putnam County, Missouri, United States. Putnam County is a County located in the US state of Missouri. This was the first sabotage of a commercial jet aircraft in passenger service. A jet aircraft is an Aircraft propelled by Jet engines Jet aircraft fly much faster than Propeller -powered aircraft and at higher altitudes -- as high as
Flight 11 departed O'Hare at 8:35 PM. The flight was routine until just before the Mississippi River, when it deviated from its filed flight plan to the north to avoid a line of thunderstorms. The Mississippi River is the second longest River in the United States, with a length of from its source in Lake Itasca in Minnesota to In the vicinity of Centerville, Iowa, the radar image of the aircraft disappeared from the scope of the Waverly, Iowa, Flight Following Service. Centerville is a city in Appanoose County, Iowa, United States. Waverly is a city in Bremer County, Iowa, United States. The population was 8968 at the 2000 census At approximately 9:17 p. m. an explosion occurred in the right rear lavatory, resulting in separation of the tail section from the fuselage. The aircraft broke up and the main part of the fuselage struck the ground about 6 miles north-northwest of Unionville, Missouri in Putnam County. Unionville is a city in Putnam County, Missouri, United States. Putnam County is a County located in the US state of Missouri.
Witnesses in and around Cincinnati, Iowa, and Unionville, Missouri, reported hearing loud and unusual noises at around 9:20 p. Cincinnati is a city in Appanoose County, Iowa, United States. Unionville is a city in Putnam County, Missouri, United States. m. , and two more saw a big flash or ball of fire in the sky. A B-47 Stratojet bomber out of Forbes Air Force Base in Topeka, Kansas, was flying at the altitude of 26,500 feet in the vicinity of Kirksville, Missouri. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Forbes Air Force Base, previously Topeka Army Airfield, is a Kansas Air National Guard installation located five miles (8 km south of Topeka Kansas. Topeka ( Kansa: Tó Ppí Kˀé ˌto ˈpːi ˌkˀeɪ Ioway: Dó Pí Kˀé ˌto ˈpʰi ˌkˀeɪ The aircraft commander saw a bright flash in the sky forward of and above his aircraft's position. After referring to his navigation logs he estimated the flash to have occurred at 9:22 p. m. near the location where the last radar target of Flight 11 had been seen. Most of the fuselage was found near Unionville, Missouri, but the engines and parts of the empennage and left wing were found up to six miles away from the main wreckage. Unionville is a city in Putnam County, Missouri, United States. Empennage émpənij is an Aviation term used to describe the Tail portion of an Aircraft.
Of the 45 individuals on board, 44 were dead when rescuers reached the crash site. One passenger, 27-year old Takehiko Nakano of Evanston, Illinois, was alive when rescuers found him in the wreckage, but he died of internal injuries at Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital in Centerville, Iowa an hour and a half after being rescued. Evanston Illinois is an affluent suburban Chicago Municipality on Lake Michigan on the North Shore in Cook County, Illinois directly Centerville is a city in Appanoose County, Iowa, United States. [1] Another of the victims was passenger Fred P. Herman, a recipient of the United States Medal of Freedom. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is a decoration bestowed by the President of the United States and is along with the equivalent Congressional Gold Medal bestowed
FBI agents discovered that one of the passengers, Thomas G. Doty, a married man with a five-year-old daughter, had purchased a life insurance policy from Mutual of Omaha for $150,000, the maximum available; his death would also bring in another $150,000 in additional insurance (some purchased at the airport) and death benefits. Thomas Doty became the first saboteur of a commercial jet airliner when he caused the crash of Continental Airlines Flight 11 from Chicago to Kansas City Mutual of Omaha is a Fortune 1000 Insurance and Financial services company based in Omaha Nebraska. Doty had recently been arrested for armed robbery and was to soon face a preliminary hearing in the matter. Investigators determined that Doty had purchased dynamite shortly before the crash, and were able to deduce that a bomb had been placed in the used towel bin of the right rear lavatory.
Notably, Continental Airlines still uses Flight 11, now on the Paris-Houston route. It is one of the few flight numbers involved in a fatal accident that was not retired after the accident.
References
- ^ "Unraveling the crash of Flight 11. . . ", Sun Herald
See also
External links
- Civil Aeronautics Board Aircraft Accident Report on Flight 11 from the Department of Transport's Special Collections
- Aviation Safety Network report on Flight 11
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