I ran across this story and thought it might be interesting to some here. Seeing an old story like this and knowing the things we know now about how the tyrants go about furthering their agenda it makes you question everything and hopefully sparks an interest in finding the truth even if it is not what we want to hear or that it happened many years ago. A few oddities that stick out are the “bomber” purchasing life insurance in the airport before boarding the plane, the lead FBI investigator of the bombing at that time was Mark “Deep Throat” Felt, and of course the designation of the flight being Flight 11. This tragedy is to be marked with a memorial this year on May 22nd 2010.
http://www.heartlandconnection…..?id=228249
Forgotten flight: the heartland's worst tragedy
By Brian Entin
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
NEAR UNIONVILLE, MO — It was one of the worst tragedies in the heartland ever and it changed the way the world travels. Continental Airlines Flight 11 didn’t make it to Kansas City. It crashed just north of Unionville back on May 22, 1962.
Many people seem to not even know the disaster occurred. There is no memorial in the field where the plane crashed, but that could soon change.
Ron Cook, a nearby farmer, was just seventeen years old when the plane crashed. He was one of the first ones to find the wreckage.
“We walked up on the hill and we could see the fuselage of the plane there and the wings…I guess you could just take an airplane and chop off the tail of it and that’s what it looked like,” Cook said.
The Boeing 707 jetliner crashed in a secluded field. “They heard a guy moaning in there. When they brought him out, he was okay. Later he died of shock when he found out what happened. Wasn’t a thing wrong with him…not even a broken bone, “ Cook said.
In the end, all 45 people were killed.
Ilajean Webber lives just up the road from where the plane went down. “The last person they found was a flight attendant and she was in a pasture just south of our house,” she said. A soldier and a man named Thomas Doty were also found on Ilajean’s farm.
This crash was no accident. Later investigation would prove Thomas Doty blew the plane up with 6 sticks of dynamite.
“29 cents a stick. He (Doty) purchased 6 sticks. So he blew up the aircraft, destroyed so many lives, for less than 3 dollars,” Historian Duane Crawford said.
Now a memorial is in the works. Crawford, who has written a series of articles on the attack, donated 1000 dollars to a memorial fund. “I think it’s important to mark what happened here. It was the first domestic terrorist attack. It’s one thing to kill yourself, it’s another thing to kill 44 people and shatter the lives of their families,” Crawford said.
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A Forgotten Tragedy
PUTNAM COUNTY – Residents in a northern Missouri community are still shocked after a tragic plane crash that occured 46 years ago.
Sometimes it takes a disaster for everyone to open their eyes.
Retired farmer Ron Cook has never forgotten May 22, 1962. He was 17 years old.
“The authorities woke us up knocking on the door, honking the horn, what the heck was going on,” Cook said.
The Cooks lived near the Missouri-Iowa border in Putnam County, not far from Unionville where Cook lived.
At 4 a.m. Ron made a startling discovery. Continental Airlines Flight 11 to Kansas City didn't make it.
“It was pretty scary,” Ron Cook said. “The main part of the fuselage was laying right here.”
Ila Jean Webber lived about a mile away.
“We had been to the movie and we heard thunder but there no clouds,” Webber said.
Traces of dynamite were found in the wreckage. The jet exploded over Iowa and crashed in Missouri.
Forty five people died in America's first ever sabotage of a commercial jet airliner.
“I think it has been forgotten because it changed America. People don't understand our security. It got tighter in airports because of what happened here,” Historian Duane Crawford said.
Crawford has written several newspaper articles about the crash. But still, so many people in Putnam County don't know about the crash. There's no monument in Putnam County, and there's no monument where the bodies were taken in Unionville.
Mary Beth Dehaven of the Putnam Historical Society helped. About 10 years ago she started collecting stories and items for the County Historical Society.
“This is an important, newsworthy event that happened in this county that everyone should know about. The generations will never know about it if we don't document it,” Dehaven said.
As it turns out, Flight-11 was brought down by Thomas Doty. He was facing other criminal charges, and bought $150,000 in life insurance before the flight.
The folks at the Putnam County Historical Society have a saved a little money to build a monument, but they need more.
The lead FBI investigator in that jet crash brought down the U.S. President ten years later. His name was Mark Felt. Just a few years ago we learned from the Watergate era that Felt was indeed deepthroat.
Reported by: Jim Riek
Posted by: Jaryd Wilson
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Continental Airlines Flight 11
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Continental Airlines Flight 11, registration N70775, was a Boeing 707 aircraft which exploded close to Centerville, Iowa, 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. This was the first sabotage of a commercial jet aircraft in passenger service.
Flight 11 departed O'Hare at 8:35 PM. The flight was routine until just before the Mississippi River, when it deviated from its filed flight plan to the north to avoid a line of thunderstorms. 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 9:17 p.m. 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.
Witnesses in and around Cincinnati, Iowa, and Unionville reported hearing loud and unusual noises at around 9:20 p.m., and two more saw a big flash or ball of fire in the sky. A B-47 Stratojet bomber out of Forbes Air Force Base in Topeka, Kansas, was flying at the altitude of 26,500 feet in the vicinity of Kirksville, Missouri. The aircraft commander saw a bright flash in the sky forward of and above his aircraft's position. After referring to his navigation logs he estimated the flash to have occurred at 9:22 p.m. near the location where the last radar target of Flight 11 had been seen. Most of the fuselage was found near Unionville, but the engines and parts of the tail section and left wing were found up to six miles away from the main wreckage.
Of the 45 individuals on board, 44 were dead when rescuers reached the crash site. One passenger, 27-year old Takehiko Nakano of Evanston, Illinois, was alive when rescuers found him in the wreckage, but he died of internal injuries at Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital in Centerville, Iowa, an hour and a half after being rescued. Another of the victims was passenger Fred P. Herman, a recipient of the United States Medal of Freedom.
FBI agents discovered that one of the passengers, Thomas G. Doty, a married man with a five-year-old daughter, had purchased a life insurance policy from Mutual of Omaha 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.
Author Arthur Hailey based a subplot of his 1968 novel Airport on the Flight 11 bombing.
Notably, until 2009 Continental Airlines still used Flight 11, on the Paris-Houston route; flight numbers involved in fatal accidents are more commonly retired. Effective October 25, 2009 Flight 11 was replaced on the Paris-Houston route by flight 33.
In 2010, a memorial will be erected near the crash site in Unionville, Missouri on the anniversary of the crash.
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Airplane Crash Starts Family's Ordeal
By Duane Crawford, Correspondent 09 May, 2005
Easygoing and friendly, his employer, colleagues and many friends described him as being “very reliable, a very fine man, a man who could do anything.” For a decade, he worked for Switzer Bros. Inc., of Cleveland, Ohio, where special paints we made.
A color research chemist, he helped develop a special paint, which the Air Force used to mark its planes as a safety factor to reduce mid-air collisions. But his main job was serving as a troubleshooter for the company.
The telephone call from Kansas City, Mo., came about 4 p.m. on May 22, 1962. Owens-Illinois Glass Company in Kansas City needed some professional hands-on advice to solve a technical problem. Someone had to fly to Kansas City. Xenon Kazenas was supposed to make the trip, but a sales meeting prevented him from going.
Switzers' number one troubleshooter, Maurice Hamilton, was told that he'd have to make the overnight flight to Kansas City.
Besides being a diligent and loyal employee for Switzer Bros., Hamilton, 42, was also a devoted and loving husband and a role model father to five adorable children. He was an ideal family man; he would have much preferred not making the trip.
Living in a modest apartment in Euclid, a quiet, working class suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, Maurice hurried home from work to notify his family of the short, unwelcome trip.
To his wife, Rosemary, he was known as “Maury.” The details of those couple of precious hours were etched in Rosemary's mind forever.
“Maury had dinner with us,” she recalls four decades later. “He said he'd be back the next day. Maury always came home as quickly as possible. We counted the hours until we were a family again.”
Throughout his years in high school, military service and college, those who knew Hamilton best called him “Ham.” On that May 22, 1962 evening, Ham finished dinner, gave Rose-mary and the kids a hug and kiss and rushed to the Cleveland Hoskins Airport to catch his short flight to Chicago, Ill.
Born on Feb. 13, 1920, in Youngstown, Ohio, Maurice was the only son of Andrew and Irene (Stark) Hamilton. He had a sister, Mary Jane.
Like the millions of other Americans from his generation, Ham and his family endured the Great Depression. In addition to its steel industry, Youngstown had a national reputation for producing the best college and professional football players. Ham was in integral part of Youngstown football.
From 1935 to 1938, Ham was a standout football and basketball star at Ursuline High School. During 1937, he was a member of the basketball team that had won the school's first Northeast-ern Ohio Basketball Championship. He was selected as the all-tournament center.
Immediately after high school, Ham enrolled at St. Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Ind., where he excelled in athletics. When World War II started, he did not shirk from his patriotic duty. On March 30, 1942, he put his education on hold and marched off to serve his country.
Having trust and confidence in Hamilton's loyalty and abilities, the U.S. Army soon made him a noncommissioned officer. After successfully completing Air-plane Mechanics School at Randolph Field in Texas, he rose quickly through the enlisted ranks. On Nov. 17, 1945, he was honorably discharged.
He soon met and fell in love with Rosemary Bresahan, a lovely and petite young lady from Youngstown. They were a perfect match and were married on June 14, 1949.
Even with new responsibilities, Ham wanted to fulfill his ambition and earn a college education. Using the GI Bill he'd earned from military service, he returned to St. Joseph College.
During the one-and-a-half years Ham had left of school, the Hamiltons' first daughter, Maureen, was born. Ham graduated on June 10, 1951, with a BS degree in chemistry. For awhile, he was an assistant instructor in bacteriology at Western Reserve University and did some post-graduate work.
Sometime in 1960, Ham was diagnosed as having diabetes. Even though the disease was controllable, he wore a diabetic bracelet. And being a devout Catholic who attended church regularly, he always wore his St. Christopher and St. Joseph medals. A close family friend would later write: “Ham was an ideal Christian. Everyone who knew him had great respect for him.”
After Ham's short fight from Cleveland and arrival at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, he waited to board the Continental Airlines Flight 11 for the 70-minute trip to Kansas City. A total of 37 passengers and eight crew members would board the giant Boeing 747 and the passenger manifest looked like a “Who's Who” of the men's business world.
No one knows who Ham associated with on the flight to Chicago or on Flight 11 to Kansas City, but given the congenial nature of the man, he would have struck up a conversation with other passengers. Like Ham, most were dedicated husbands and fathers, successful businessmen and World War II or Korean War veterans. They all had strong American values; they loved their country.
There were executives of several large American corporations, including Lenora Lingerie, Vanilla Laboratories, Futursonic Productions and the superintendent and his assistant of the Michigan Wisconsin Pipeline Company. Two certified accountants and a long-time member of the United States Golf Association were aboard the flight.
The unusually high number of businessmen on the flight included three important members of the Chrysler Dodge automobile division. Fred P. Herman, 46, finance executive, was a native of Czechoslovakia who fled to the U.S. with his family just before World War II.
Within days after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and was promptly sent to the Philippines. He wound up in the Bataan Death March and spent four years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. Takechido Nakano, 27, of Evansville, Ill., was the sole non-American on Flight 11. His occupation was engineer.
Other than the four stewardesses, he only woman on he flight was Geneva Greenwood Fraley, 34, of Kansas City, Kan. As discovered later, Fraley was planning a joint business venture with Thomas G. Doty from Kansas City, Kan., who was also on Flight 11. Doty was married and the father of a 5-year-old daughter. His wife was also pregnant.
The two prospective partners had worked together in a Kansas City cosmetic plant until March 1962, when Doty resigned. She soon quit, and they were planning to open a party goods and home furnishing shop in the area. To finalize their business arrangement, the two traveled on separate planes to Chicago. Both stayed at the Hotel Sherman.
Flight 11 took off at O'Hare Airport at 8:35 p.m. At 9 p.m., Flight 11 contacted the Flight Following Radar site in Waverly, Iowa, and requested information regarding a storm lying across the airplane's flight path. The pilot, Captain Fred Gray, elected to pass north of the storm cell. At 9:14 p.m. the ground controllers in Waverly observed the aircraft's disappearance from the radarscope.
A huge Boeing 747 had vanished. Air controllers in Waverly and Kansas City tried to establish contact with Flight 11 officials at Continental Airlines headquarters in Denver, Colo., and federal aviation officials in Washington, D.C., were also immediately notified.
Before long, word leaked to the national media that a Boeing 747 was missing over the Heartland. Hordes of reporters and television crews would soon flock to the regional for what they believed would be a tragic headline story, causing major problems for law enforcement officials from Iowa and Missouri.
From an area between Ottumwa and Bloomfield, stretching southwest toward Missouri, searchers were soon finding a trail of debris. An eight-foot piece of the tail section of the plane landed near a Cincinnati school; a spoon and knife from the plane was found on a Cincinnati street.
Back in Cleveland, Ohio, Rosemary Hamilton had already tucked her five kids in bed and was relaxing after a long day of being a faithful and loving wife and mother.
Next: Part Two, “Life After Dad.”
©Daily IowegianÊ2005
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NOTE:
I was unable to locate part 2 to the above story written by Duane Crawford.
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PDF of the Aircraft Accident Report.
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Crash Photo Unionville, Missouri Continental Airlines Flight 11
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