This plane crash takes us to the state of Missouri, which is located next to the following states: Iowa, Illinois, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and Nebraska.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH AND PLANE BOMBING
Pictured above is a similar type of aircraft that was involved in this crash.
Continental Airlines Flight 11, registered as November 70775 (N70775), was a Boeing 707 aircraft which exploded in the vicinity of Centerville, Iowa, while en route from Chicago O'hare International Airport (IATA: ORD, ICAO: KORD), Chicago, Illinois to Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport (IATA: MKC, ICAO: KMKC), Kansas City, Missouri, on the 22nd of May 1962, the aircraft crashed into a clover field near Unionville, in Putnam County, Missouri, the crash killed all 45 people on board the plane, the investigation determined the cause of the crash was a suicide bombing committed as insurance fraud.
At approximately 9:17pm local time, an explosion occurred in the right rear lavatory, resulting in the separation of the tail section from the fuselage, the crew initiated an emergency descent, they also donned their smoke masks, due to the dense fog in the cockpit, following the separation of the tail, the remaining aircraft structure pitched nose down violently, causing the engines to tear off, after which, the plane fell into an uncontrolled gyrations, the fuselage of the Boeing 707, minus the aft 38 feet (12 meters) and with part of the left wing and most of the right wing intact, struck the ground in a westerly direction, the plane hit a 10 degree slope that was located in an alfalfa field.
The summary of the crash was a Suicide bombing, suicide committed as an insurance fraud by a passenger.
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Plane crashes from around the United States
Non-FictionThese are plane crashes from around America, these are for the states that had a true crime case. WARING this book contains plane crashes and videos that explains what happened to the planes.