Statuts: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Date: | mardi 22 mai 1962 |
Heure: | 21:17 |
Type/Sous-type: | Boeing 707-124 |
Compagnie: | Continental Air Lines |
Immatriculation: | N70775 |
Numéro de série: | 17611/49 |
Année de Fabrication: | 1959 |
Heures de vol: | 11946 |
Moteurs: | 4 Pratt & Whitney JT3C-6 |
Equipage: | victimes: 8 / à bord: 8 |
Passagers: | victimes: 37 / à bord: 37 |
Total: | victimes: 45 / à bord: 45 |
Dégats de l'appareil: | Détruit |
Conséquences: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
Lieu de l'accident: | 10 km (6.3 milles) NNW of Unionville, MO ( Etats-Unis d'Amérique)
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Phase de vol: | En vol (ENR) |
Nature: | Transport de Passagers Nat. |
Aéroport de départ: | Chicago-O'Hare International Airport, IL (ORD/KORD), Etats-Unis d'Amérique |
Aéroport de destination: | Kansas City Downtown Municipal Airport, MO (MKC/KMKC), Etats-Unis d'Amérique |
Numéro de vol: | CO11 |
Détails:Continental Flight 11 took off from Chicago-O'Hare (ORD) at 20:35 for a one hour flight to Kansas City (MKC). The airplane climbed to FL390 and was vectored around a storm area. Just before the Waverly controller wanted to hand off Flight 11 Kansas City Center, in the vicinity of Centerville, IA, an explosive decompression occurred. The flight crew initiate the required emergency descent procedures and donned their smoke masks due to the dense fog which formed in the cabin immediately after the decompression. At separation of the tail, the remaining aircraft structure pitched nose down violently, causing the engines to tear off, after which it fell in uncontrolled gyrations. The fuselage of the Boeing 707, minus the aft 38 feet, and with part of the left and most of the right wing intact, struck the ground, headed westerly down a 10-degree slope of an alfalfa field.
Investigation by the FBI revealed that Thomas G. Doty had purchased a life insurance policy for $150,000, the maximum available; his death would also bring in another $150,000 in additional insurance (some purchased at the airport) and death benefits. Doty had recently been arrested for armed robbery and was to soon face a preliminary hearing in the matter. Investigators determined that Doty had purchased dynamite shortly before the crash, and were able to deduce that a bomb had been placed in the used towel bin of the right rear lavatory.
Probable Cause:
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the disintegrating force of a dynamite explosion which occurred in the right rear lavatory resulting in destruction of the aircraft."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | CAB |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | 71 days (2 months) | Accident number: | 1-0003 | Download report: | Final report
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Sources:
» ICAO Accident Digest No.14 Volume I, Circular 71-AN/63
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Fifty years ago this week, Continental Flight 11 fell out of the sky over Unionville
Photos
Plan
Ce plan montre l'aéroport de départ ainsi que la supposée destination du vol. La ligne fixe reliant les deux aéroports n'est pas le plan de vol exact.
La distance entre Chicago-O'Hare International Airport, IL et Kansas City Downtown Municipal Airport, MO est de 643 km (402 miles).
Accident location: Approximate; accuracy within a few kilometers.
Les informations ci-dessus ne représentent pas l'opinion de la 'Flight Safety Foundation' ou de 'Aviation Safety Network' sur les causes de l'accident. Ces informations prélimimaires sont basées sur les faits tel qu'ils sont connus à ce jour.