Continental Airlines Flight 11
A Continental Airlines Boeing 707 similar to the aircraft involved in the crash | |
| Bombing | |
|---|---|
| Date | May 22, 1962 |
| Summary | Suicide bombing (suicide committed as an insurance fraud by a passenger) |
| Site | Union Township, Putnam County near Unionville, Missouri, United States 40°32′49.43″N 93°3′28.25″W / 40.5470639°N 93.0578472°W |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 707-124 |
| Operator | Continental Airlines |
| IATA flight No. | CO11 |
| ICAO flight No. | COA11 |
| Call sign | CONTINENTAL 11 |
| Registration | N70775 |
| Flight origin | O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Destination | Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport, Kansas City, Missouri, United States |
| Occupants | 45 |
| Passengers | 37 |
| Crew | 8 |
| Fatalities | 45 |
| Survivors | 0 |
Continental Airlines Flight 11, registration N70775, was a Boeing 707 aircraft which exploded in the vicinity of Centerville, Iowa, United States, while en route from O'Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois, to Kansas City, Missouri, on May 22, 1962. The aircraft crashed in a clover field near Unionville, in Putnam County, Missouri, killing all 45 crew and passengers on board. The investigation determined the cause of the crash was a suicide bombing, committed as insurance fraud.