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This FBI file concerns the May 22, 1962 crash of Continental Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 707 that went down near Unionville, Missouri. The Bureau investigated the destruction of the aircraft, with particular attention to passengers Thomas Gene Doty and Geneva Opal Fraley. A June 14, 1962 Kansas City report documents interviews, financial and tax-record checks, travel arrangements, insurance purchases, Doty's bankruptcy and criminal case, medical and personal background, and inquiries into explosives. The report states that laboratory residues from aircraft aluminum were consistent with dynamite detonation and records evidence concerning a possible dynamite purchase by Doty.

FBI file number: 149-2144 | Documents span: 1962 | Released in 1 part
Names in this file: Thomas Gene Doty, Geneva Opal Fraley, Naomi G. Doty, James F. Glonek, Clyde R. Albright, Vernon Mitchem
Subjects: aircraft bombing, Continental Airlines Flight 11, FBI investigation, dynamite, insurance, Thomas Gene Doty