Investigation
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 six sticks of dynamite for 29 cents each, 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 in the USA involved in fatal accidents are more commonly retired. Flight 11 was later replaced on the Paris-Houston route by flight 33 until its integration with United Airlines.
In July 2010, a memorial was erected near the crash site in Unionville, Missouri on the anniversary of the crash.
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