UNIONVILLE, Mo. — Maureen Riordan’s family barely spoke about the plane crash that killed her father when she was just 11. Same for Ronnie Cook, a Missouri soybean farmer who as a high college junior was among the first on the scene when Continental Airlines Flight 11 went down 50 years ago just south of the Iowa border.Aviation buffs know Flight 11 as the nation’s first bombing of a commercial jet airliner, an act of sabotage by a passenger that killed all 45 human beings on board. Yet the crash of the plane, which departed Chicago en route to Los Angeles with a Kansas Megalopolis stop, was largely forgotten as age passed, families went on and more horrific airline incidents came to dominate history.Glance at More…
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