Boeing 707 crash, May 22, 1962 (45 killed), Unionville Mi...
Boeing 707 accident on May 22, 1962 near Unionville Missouri, United States with 45 fatalities. Cause: An explosion in the right rear lavatory, caused...
- Date: May 22, 1962
- Aircraft: Boeing 707
- Location: Unionville Missouri, United States
- Fatalities: 45
- Phase of flight: En route
- Cause: An explosion in the right rear lavatory, caused by a bomb set off by a passenger, tore the tail section from the fuselage.
Continental Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 707 flying from Chicago to Kansas City, broke up in the air on 22 May 1962 after a dynamite bomb exploded in a rear lavatory. The wreckage fell near Unionville, Missouri, and all 45 people on board died. Investigators concluded that a passenger set off the bomb as a suicide for insurance money.