right-hand turn. As it descended, it suffered an in-flight disintegration and crashed at 2:38 a.m. The CAB concluded in their final report: No reference is made in this report concerning the placing of the dynamite aboard the aircraft or of the person or persons responsible for its detonation. The malicious destruction of an aircraft is a Federal crime. After the Board's determination that such was involved, the criminal aspects of this accident were referred to the Department of Justice through its Federal Bureau of Investigation ...The Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the detonation of dynamite within the passenger cabin. — Civil Aeronautics Board File No. 1-0002, pp. 1,12 The FBI assumed control of the criminal investigation on January 20, 1960. The case remains open and unsolved. See also Comair Flight 206 Continental Airlines Flight 11 List of accidents and incidents involving airliners in the United States List of unsolved deaths National Airlines Flight 967 References Bibliography (text on Wikisource) External links Accidents and incidents involving the Douglas DC-6 Airliner accidents and incidents in North Carolina Airliner bombings in the United States Brunswick County, North Carolina Crimes in North Carolina Disasters in North Carolina Killings in North Carolina Murder–suicides in the United States 2511 Suicide bombings in the United States Unsolved airliner bombings Unsolved mass murders in the United States 1960 in North Carolina 1960 murders in the United States 20th-century mass murder in the United States Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States in 1960 January 1960 events in the United States Mass murder in 1960