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Continental Airlines Flight 11 was a Boeing 707 en route from Chicago to Los Angeles on May 22, 1962. A bomb went off in the rear lavatory about 9:30 p.m. local time. As a result, the tail came off and the plane crashed on a farm near Unionville, Missouri. All 45 onboard died. This was the first-ever successful sabotage of a commercial jet. Continental Airlines (IATA: CO, ICAO: COA, and Callsign: Continental) (NYSE: CAL) is an airline of the United States. ...
The Boeing 707 is a four engined commercial passenger jet aircraft developed by Boeing in the early 1950s. ...
May 22 is the 142nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (143rd in leap years). ...
1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ...
Unionville is a city located in Putnam County, Missouri. ...
One passenger, 27-year old Takehiko Nakano of Evanston, Illinois, was alive when rescuers found him, but died from his injuries shortly thereafter. Fred P. Herman, who was previously awarded the United States Medal of Freedom, was among the passengers. Incorporated City in 1872. ...
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award in the United States. ...
The FBI deduced that one of the passengers, Thomas G. Doty, who was 34 at the time, planted the device after buying a life insurance policy from Mutual of Omaha for $150,000, the maximum available. Doty, of Merriam, Kansas, had recently been arrested for armed robbery and was to soon face a preliminary hearing in the matter. He had a wife and a five year-old daughter at the time. Mutual of Omaha is an insurance company based in Omaha, Nebraska. ...
Merriam is a city located in Johnson County, Kansas. ...
This incident could have been the foundation for the novel Airport by Arthur Hailey. The plot featured a passenger who buys the largest amount of insurance using his last few dollars and subsequently blows up the plane with dynamite in the lavatory. However, the novel ends with the safe return of the plane to a snow-covered airport with few casualties. Airport book cover Airport is a 1968 novel by Arthur Hailey about a Chicago airport and the personalities of the people who use, rely and suffer from its operation. ...
Arthur Hailey (April 5, 1920 - November 24, 2004) was a British/Canadian/American/Bahamian novelist. ...
Departing from tradition where the flight number involved in a fatality is retired from use, Flight Number 11 is still used today on its Paris-Houston route and uses Boeing 777 aircraft. The Boeing 777 is a family of long-range wide-body twin-engine airliners built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. ...
See also Citing the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, an aviation accident is defined as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person...
Air safety is a broad term encompassing the theory, investigation and categorisation of flight failures, and the prevention of such failures through appropriate regulation, as well as through education and training. ...
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