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[[條目#*Continental Airlines Flight 11 was a Boeing 707 en route from Chicago to Los Angeles on May 22 1962. A bomb went off in the rear lavatory about 9:30 pm local time. As a result, the tail came off and the plane crashed on a farm near Unionville, Missouri. All 45 onboard died.

• Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 aircraft, crashed on take-off in a snowstorm from the Denver, Colorado Stapleton International Airport on Sunday, November 15 1987. The crash resulted in the deaths of 28 of the aircraft's occupants while 54 survived.
• On 11 September 1991, Continental Express flight 2574 from Laredo, Texas to Houston Intercontinental Airport crashed upon descent near Eagle Lake, Texas, killing all three crew members and all eleven passengers. The crash was attributed to maintenance error in failing to screw in 47 fasteners on the horizontal stabilizer.
• Air France Flight 4590 was a Concorde flight from Charles de Gaulle International Airport near Paris, France to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, New York. A piece of metal from a Continental Airlines DC-10 (N13067) punctured the tires of the Concorde, causing its crash.
• On 2 March 2005, there was an incident at Newark Liberty International Airport with a Continental Airlines Boeing 777-200 aircraft with 14 crew and 198 passengers on board. At rotation the aircraft lifted off the runway and settled back on again before taking off properly. However, the crew were aware that a tail scrape had taken place, so they landed back uneventfully. The rear pressure bulkhead was found to have been damaged (ref: Flight International, July 2005).
• On January 16 2006, at a Continental Airlines contract mechanic was sucked into the engine of a Boeing 737-500 and killed. The incident took place at El Paso International Airport, aboard Continental Airlines flight 1515 with nonstop service to Houston Intercontinental Airport.
• On May 2 2006 Continental Express flight 3161 from Houston to Minneapolis had two tires suffer blowouts on take off. The Embraer ERJ 145 circled the area for nearly two hours to burn fuel off before landing safely again at George Bush Intercontinental Airport. There were no fatalities among the passengers and crew.