Chicago – Kansas City – Los Angeles

On May 22, 1962 at 09:17 PM, Chicago – Kansas City – Los Angeles experienced a crash involving Boeing 707, operated by Continental Airlines, with the event recorded near Unionville Missouri.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was flight at a plain, valley crash site.

45 people were known to be on board, 45 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 8, crew fatalities: 8, passengers on board: 37, passenger fatalities: 37, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is terrorism act, hijacking, sabotage. On the night of May 22, 1962, a Continental Air Lines Boeing 707-124, N70775, operating as Flight 11 en route from O’Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois, to Kansas City, Missouri, was flying via Jet Route 26V at an altitude of 39,000 feet. A few minutes after Flight 11 had made a northerly deviation from course to circumnavigate a thunderstorm, in the vicinity of Centerville, Iowa, the radar image of the aircraft disappeared from the scope of the Waverly, Iowa, Flight Following Service. At approximately 2117 an explosion occurred in the right rear lavatory resulting in separation of the tail section from the fuselage. The aircraft broke up and the main part of the fuselage struck the ground about 6 miles north-northwest of Unionville, Missouri. All 37 passengers and crew of 8 sustained fatal injuries. The aircraft was totally destroyed.

Aircraft reference details include registration N70775, MSN 17611, year of manufacture 1959.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 40.4770°, -93.0033°.