Terrorist attack

Continental Airlines Flight 11

22 May 1962 · 40.55° N, 93.06° W

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When
22 May 1962
Kind
Terrorist attack
Killed
45
Coordinates
40.55° N, 93.06° W

Continental Airlines Flight 11

1962 airliner bombing

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.

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