Air Transport today is the fastest of all existing ones, allowing you to cover distances and move with supersonic speed up to 1000 km/h depending on the aircraft model. More than seventy years have passed since airplanes finally replaced airships, and the service offered has evolved markedly. The passenger can travel with the same comfort as, for example, in a train cabin, without feeling any restrictions at all, which in the early days civil aviation was considered fantasy. Unfortunately, the situation with security is not so good.
Despite modern computer technologies used in control and constant control by the dispatcher, plane crashes occur quite often, second only to road transport. Every year, at least two aircraft crash, resulting in numerous casualties, and the only consolation for relatives is the insurance paid.
What do we usually hear from representatives of the government commission created each time to investigate the crash? They often talk about the so-called human factor, implying that the cause is some actions of the maintenance personnel or crew that are beyond their control. The emphasis is always on the fact that modern aviation is absolutely safe thanks to computer control systems, but is this true?
Many people still ask the question: “Why aren’t passengers provided with parachutes in case of an accident?” Everyone involved in this responds that it is unrealistic to do this and it is easier to pay increased attention to preparing the ship for the voyage, but for some reason the crew themselves are always provided with rescue equipment. Of course, few people engage in parachuting, and in the event of a disaster, not everyone will survive, even of those who managed to leave the plane, but on the other hand, this is a greater chance of survival than simply being burned by an explosion.
If you compare the statistics on plane crashes half a century ago and now, you can see that the frequency has increased significantly. If we take the 30s of the last century, then there were practically no disasters. The scale of modern airliners has led to the fact that their design has become significantly more complicated, and a mass of electronic systems have appeared for automatic control of flight parameters. Current passenger aircraft, in fact, are controlled only using a computer and are switched to manual mode only in the most urgent cases, since such control carries a lot of risks. The principle is that the more complex it is, the more unreliably it always works flawlessly, and since for an air carrier an untainted brand is more valuable than anything else, an abstract human factor most advantageous as the culprit.
When a disaster occurs, then everything is even more or less clear, and even if the culprit is not found, they will definitely appoint someone, because someone has to answer. But what to do with those cases when the plane disappears? The strange scenario is repeated in the same details, differing from other cases only in the duration of the time intervals. The plane goes into the sky and after some time, first communication with the crew disappears, and then the display of the ship’s trajectory on the controllers’ radars stops.
Subsequent searches for the missing liner sometimes turn into a terrible discovery, but there are also many cases when traces of the disaster cannot be found. Even a crashed plane still sends radio signals, including while underwater. But it’s as if someone specially turns off all systems and any detection of the aircraft using tracking becomes impossible. It should be noted that modern airliners are equipped with several types of tracking that duplicate each other. During the flight, information about the progress of the flight is constantly sent via satellite communication to the dispatcher's server, so a sudden break in all contacts at once looks more than strange.
One such example is the flight Kuala Lumpur - Beijing, operated by a Malaysian Boeing 777 in March 2014. A few hours after departure, communication with the ship was lost in the territorial waters of Vietnam. The widespread and official version is that the plane fell into the sea, but no remains were found after the most thorough examination of the waters and surrounding areas. The plane was equipped with a high-tech tracking system and in an instant everything went completely offline. Although to date all passengers and crew have been officially declared dead, no one has found evidence of this.
What is kept silent is the fact that, like similar cases, this one also occurred over the sea. Unofficial sources increasingly mention the version of the involvement of aliens. Of course, official authorities completely deny this possibility, although there is more and more evidence of outside interference in the operation of the airliner. Some eyewitnesses living near the coast where the missing Boeing was last seen reported that increased UFO activity had been recorded the day before. Strange luminous objects, according to them, moved through the air, violating all known laws of aerodynamics, either hovering in the air or making sharp turns.
More mundane versions are some kind of military tests, otherwise how can we explain the increased interest of the navy in searching for the remains of the aircraft? UFOs or military are versions that always run parallel to each other, since one does not at all exclude the other. In any case, it is impossible to achieve any clarification, and all found material is immediately classified. The interest of UFOs in terrestrial aircraft began to be recorded in the mid-80s of the last century. Since that time, many pilots admitted in informal conversations that they had seen strange flying objects more than once in the air. Both pilots of civil air transport and combat vehicles encountered such an incomprehensible phenomenon. The most interesting thing is that there are no testimonies from pilots working in the air cargo segment; apparently the aliens are of little interest in containers and goods.
Strange disappearances of planes, if they did not occur due to a natural disaster, are always associated with anomalous zones Lands, one of these is the Bermuda Triangle. All pilots are careful not to cross this territory, since it is common knowledge that no one has ever returned from there. After entering the triangle, radio communication is blocked, and all devices fail.
In December 1945, an Avenger squadron consisting of five aircraft disappeared in this area. As always in such cases, the flight took place in normal weather conditions. An hour and a half later, the pilots began to report strange behavior of the instruments and the inability to determine their coordinates. Despite the dispatcher's best efforts, he was unable to redirect the pilots back to base, and radio communications soon ceased. The rescue plane sent after also stopped communicating, and no traces of the crash were found. Since this incident took place immediately after the war and already at a time when relations between the former allies were strained, the Soviet military was the first to come under suspicion, and the fact of the disappearance was immediately classified.
It should be noted that even a flight in bad weather and turbulence in the vicinity of Bermuda usually ends well, and it cannot be otherwise, since many vacationers come to the resorts located here. Once a pilot or navigator gets into a triangle in clear weather, the consequences are similar to those described above. Oddly enough, the bad reputation of this area is always taught as fiction, as well as versions involving aliens. They constantly try to convince the average person that fantasy and the excited state that arises during experiences are to blame for everything.
Of course, relatives of disappeared people find themselves in a much worse situation than those who were at least able to bury their loved ones. The feeling of uncertainty and hopelessness can, of course, play tricks on the human consciousness, but when there is a constant feeling of understatement, you can believe any assumptions.
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Operating the flight Malaysia Airlines MH370, attracted the attention of millions of people from all over the world.
The search for the plane and passengers is still ongoing.
what happened with 293 passengers and crew, after the plane took off from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to Beijing on March 8, 2014?
No one can answer this yet.
The plane disappeared from radar about an hour after takeoff, being 220 km off the coast of Malaysia.
However, this is not the first case of a mysterious disappearance of this kind. Although it is quite rare for an aircraft to disappear without a trace, there have been several such examples in the history of aviation.
Here are some half-solved or unsolved mysteries.
Amelia Earhart
One of the most famous incidents in aviation history is the disappearance of an American female pilot. Amelia Earhart. Amelia disappeared in her twin-engine monoplana "Electra" near Howland Island over the Pacific Ocean in 1937in an attempt to fly around the world.
Earhart became known as the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean by herself.
Theories concerning her fate, still worries researchers. Some say that she simply fell into the ocean, others that she was captured, others that she changed her name and is still alive, and others that she was abducted by aliens.
No trace of her plane was ever found, despite numerous attempts, and Amelia Earhart was officially declared dead in 1939.
Bermuda Triangle
A number of disappearances have been linked to the so-called Bermuda Triangle, a huge area of ocean between Florida, Puerto Rico and Bermuda.
On December 5, 1945, five planes disappeared without a trace, where the legend of the Bermuda Triangle began. The training mission of five torpedo bombers, led by an experienced instructor, took off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
An hour and a half after the start of the mission, the pilots reported that they had lost direction and can't recognize landmarks.
In radio communications, Instructor Taylor reported that both of his compasses were out of order. P favorable conditionsworse, they could not find the shore and tried to land on the water.
Even stranger, one of the planes sent to find the lost training mission had also disappeared.
More two passenger aircraft disappeared from this area in 1948 and 1949 year and more than 51 people disappeared.
Star Dust and the mysterious Morse code
August 2, 1947 aircraft B.S.A.A. Star Dust, flew from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile disappeared, leaving behind several unanswered questions.
Airplane owned by the company British South American Airways(BSAA), was heading towards the Andam Mountains. He never reached his destination, but the radio operator managed to send the last mysterious message using Morse code "STENDEC", after which he disappeared.
There have been several theories regarding what happened to the plane and the meaning of the latest message, including alien attacks, sabotage, and deliberately blowing up the plane to destroy diplomatic documents.
Most likely, the plane crashed into a nearly vertical wall of snow, causing an avalanche that buried the wreckage.
The Star Dust plane was found only 50 years later, when two Argentine climbers found fragments of an engine and scraps of clothing.
The fate of the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared in March 2014 still worries not only the relatives of its passengers. But this flight was not the only missing flight in aviation history. Unfortunately, not all planes arrive at their destination on time, and some of them do not even leave traces of the crash. Their mysterious fate is still shrouded in darkness.
The Mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
Numerous theories about the causes of the disaster only confuse the investigation.Pilot suicide? Technical problem? Hijacking? To this day, different versions of what actually happened to Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on March 8, 2014 continue to emerge.
The Boeing 777, with 227 passengers on board and 12 crew members, disappeared from radar approximately an hour after taking off from international airport Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. The liner was heading to Beijing. Five hours after the loss of contact, the Malaysian government announced the disappearance of the plane. Its last location was at an altitude of about 11,000 meters, approximately 300 km southwest of southern province Vietnam. Four days after the flight disappeared, Malaysian investigators presented evidence that the plane deviated significantly from its intended course and flew towards the Strait of Malacca.
Experts believe that a catastrophic fall of the Boeing is unlikely, since the plane repeatedly changed altitude, first rising to 13,700 meters, and then smoothly descending to 7,000, after which it flew for about six more hours. Most likely, the change in echelon was intentional.
The search for missing flight MH370 is still ongoing. At the moment, only a fragment of the plane has been found in the area of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean. The reasons that led to the disaster and its development on board are still unknown, just as the exact location of the Boeing crash has not been discovered.
This plane was actually stolen in Angola On May 25, 2003, a Boeing 727-223 was stolen from Cuatro de Fevereiro Airport in Luganda, Angola.
At the time of its disappearance, the former American Airlines flight was owned by Miami-based Aerospace Sales & Leasing and leased to TAAG Angola Airlines. Investigators were able to find out that at that time the plane was undergoing repairs, which were carried out by flight engineer Ben Charles Padilla and his assistant John Mikel Mutantu together with Angolan mechanics. None of them knew how to fly such an aircraft: Mutantu was not a pilot at all, and Padilla only had a private pilot's license. To fly a Boeing 727, a crew of three is required.
However, after the repairs were completed, Padilla and Mutantu boarded the plane and the plane began to move chaotically around the airfield without any communication with air traffic controllers. As soon as the 727 took off, its transponder was turned off and the plane disappeared forever.
It is believed that it was Padilla who was at the helm, since only he had at least some idea of \u200b\u200bcontrol of an aircraft. Some members of his family believe he was simply on a mission for Aerospace Sales & Leasing to repossess the plane from Air Angola for non-payment, while others speculate that Padilla may have been forced into stealing the Boeing against his will.
Disappearance of Flight 739 over the Pacific Ocean
Journalistic investigation did not help get to the truth March 16, 1962 chartered flight The 739 Super Constellation with 96 U.S. troops on board and 11 crew members took off from Travis Air Force Base in California for Vietnam. After refueling in Guam, the plane headed for Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, but never arrived at its destination. Presumably, the plane crashed somewhere in the western Pacific Ocean. An hour after the last communication session with the ship, the Standard Oil tanker reported an explosion in the sky.
Was it sabotage? Rocket? Engine problems? Today it is no longer possible to establish the truth. In its investigation report, the US Civil Aeronautics Administration concluded that "the crash of Flight 739 occurred suddenly and in a matter of seconds."
Death of Glenn Miller
The tragic disappearance of Glen Miller deals a blow to the famous orchestra On December 15, 1944, the leader of the famous jazz orchestra, Glenn Miller, flew from the RAF airbase to Paris to prepare for the performance. His Norseman C-64 plane disappeared over the English Channel and was never found.
Miller applied for military service in 1942, at the height of his orchestra's popularity. At 38, he was already too old for military service, but he was allowed to create a military band. In 1944, he even received the rank of major.
The official report into Miller's disappearance stated that the musician's plane encountered poor weather conditions over the English Channel, but rumors continued to multiply. Some believed that the plane was shot down by German fighters, others argued that Miller finally reached Paris, but was killed by German saboteurs. The most incredible version of the musician’s death was invented already in the 90s by tabloid journalists who claimed that Miller died of a heart attack in bed with a French prostitute, and the American military simply hid such a shameful death of the legend.
However, the most likely explanation for the tragedy is completely different, given by British Air Force navigator Fred Shaw. According to Shaw, Miller's plane was bombed by British bombers, which were forced to dump their deadly payload into the sea after an unsuccessful mission to targets in the Belgium area.
The disappearance of Amelia Earhart
Brave Amelia Earhart The disappearance of aviation pioneer and writer Amelia Earhart is one of the most famous in aviation history. Earhart was the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. On June 2, 1937, her Lockheed Electra disappeared while attempting to circle the globe. She and her navigator Fred Noonan went missing near Howland Island in Pacific Ocean.
The US Navy immediately began searching for Amelia, but found no trace of the plane or bodies. The US government has concluded that Earhart and Noonan were unable to find Howland when the plane ran out of fuel, but, as with MH370, new versions of the disaster continue to emerge. According to one of them, Amelia was a secret British agent who was forced to make an emergency landing on an island occupied by Japan and was captured. According to another version, Amelia was able to reach the US coast, changed her name and lived a quiet life.
There is also evidence of an emergency landing of Earhart and Noonan in the Nikumaroro Atoll area. Perhaps Amelia attempted to splash down when she ran out of fuel, but was unable to cope with the waves. The international investigation team TIGHAR in 1989 discovered the remains of human bones, a woman's cosmetic bag, pieces of shoes and a jar of sunscreen on this coral island. The investigation is ongoing.
Missing in the Bermuda Triangle
Five Avengers missing in the Bermuda Triangle On December 5, 1945, five US Navy bombers took off from Lauderleil Army Airfield on a scheduled training flight. All five planes and 14 pilots disappeared without a trace in the Bermuda Triangle.
For the entire two hours of the flight before losing contact, the squadron leader reported that all his compasses were not working and he could not determine his location. Other planes also transmitted messages about a similar malfunction, the latest of which was the command of the presenter to land the planes on the water, as fuel was running out.
An hour later, Mariner with 13 rescuers on board went after the missing pilots. And he also disappeared. A tanker passing along the Florida coast reported that Mariner exploded in mid-air twenty minutes after takeoff.
Every meter of the Gulf of Mexico was combed by hundreds of ships and aircraft, but no trace of the squadron or Mariner was found.
Lost plane with paintings
The same Varig Boeing 707-379C disappeared in the sky over the Pacific Ocean In 1979, a Varig Brazilian Airlines cargo plane disappeared half an hour after taking off from Narita International Airport in Tokyo. The 707 was carrying 153 paintings by artist Manubu Mabe with a total value of more than $1.2 million. The plane, paintings and six crew members are still considered missing. Was it a mid-air robbery or just a control failure? No one can say for sure.
DC-4 with US military disappeared near Anchorage
The Curious Case of the Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-4 A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-4 disappeared en route from Vancouver to Tokyo on July 21, 1951. The plane made a scheduled landing in Anchorage, Alaska, but then encountered bad weather. There was heavy rain, icing and visibility of only about 500 feet. The weather report was the last one received from the plane, and even intensive searches yielded no results.
There were 6 crew members and 31 passengers on board - soldiers and officers armed forces USA.
Airplane with engine failure
The disappearance of the DC-4 over the Pacific Ocean has worried all Americans In 1964, a DC-4 with 9 passengers on its way to Los Angeles disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. 500 miles from the coast, the crew sent a message about problems with the engine and never made contact again.
Navy search forces found an oil slick on the water, and there were even witnesses who saw the plane's tail sinking, but no real traces of the DC-4 or its passengers were found.
58 people disappeared in the waters of Lake Michigan
58 missing people in Lake Michigan have never been found. In June 1950, Northwest Airlines Flight 2501 disappeared over the waters of Lake Michigan with 58 passengers on board. For a week, rescuers on boats and planes searched for the missing flight, but other than a small amount of debris and fragments of bodies, no other traces of the accident were found, and the causes of the disaster remained unclear.
Planes sometimes crash and disasters occur. It's always unexpected and unpredictable. We can only hope that scientific and technological progress in the near future will reveal the secrets of at least some incomprehensible disasters and help find airliners that once took off but never landed.
Our world is filled with a variety of secrets and mysteries that no science can yet explain. Despite the development of civilization, in many ways we still do not understand all the laws of the Universe and therefore we are often faced with inexplicable and sometimes even mystical facts of the existence of otherworldly forces. And some anomalies began to occur precisely when a person learned to fly, or, to be more precise, launched into the sky. There are many mysterious facts associated with these miracles of technology, and some cases in which missing planes appear are presented in this article.
Malaysia Airlines MH370
The plane that disappeared while flying flight MH370 attracted a lot of attention at the time. Millions of people from all over the world watched this event. On March 8, 2014, the flight took off from the Malaysian airport located in Kuala Lumpur and was supposed to head to Beijing. There were about 300 passengers and crew members on board, and to this day no one is able to answer what happened to this flight.
Having flown approximately 220 kilometers from the country's coast, the plane disappeared from radar. This happened about an hour later, when the car took off. The missing Malaysia-Beijing plane is still being searched for, but so far no wreckage or traces of passengers or crew have been found.
Amelia Earhart
One of the most famous events in the world is considered to be one that occurred in 1937. Then an American woman named Amelia Earhart set off in her two-seater monoplane, called the Electra, on a journey over the Pacific Ocean. She took off in the area of Howland Island with the goal of flying around the world and disappeared. This woman was very famous because she was the first of the fair sex to decide to overcome the distance over the Atlantic Ocean.
Many researchers are still trying to find out the fate of the girl. There are a lot of theories about this, and not all of them look plausible. For many years, people have been trying to find evidence of her crash or cunning, but so far, neither the wreckage of her aircraft nor she herself have been found. Today, this case is one of the mysteries called “Secrets of the missing planes.”
Authorities declared her dead two years after the incident. But some historians still believe that she is alive.
The mystery of the Bermuda Triangle
The most mysterious and mysterious place on the planet, there is a territory called This is a rather large space between Florida and Puerto Rico. It was in this area that most of the mysterious disappearances occurred, not only of planes, but also of ships. One of the most sensational cases involving missing planes occurred on December 5, 1945. It is believed that it was from this moment that the whole mystification of this place began. Then there was a training mission for torpedo bombers. The five planes took off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with an experienced instructor in tow.
An hour and a half after the start of the mission, the pilots contacted the dispatcher, reporting the loss of a landmark. They couldn't figure out where they were, and the terrain they saw didn't look like what they were supposed to be seeing. The pilots also mentioned that their compasses did not work and were completely out of order. There was a noticeable deterioration in the weather, and since the shore was not visible, the pilots decided to land on the water surface. After this, neither the missing planes nor their crews were found. Even more mystical was the fact that one of the planes that was sent to find the five torpedo bombers also disappeared without a trace.
Star Dust and the mysterious Morse code
Back in August 1947, British South American Airways flew its Star Dust aircraft from Argentina to Chile. The flight took place from Buenos Aires and the plane was supposed to land in the city of Santiago. But the flight never reached its destination. Before the plane disappeared into the Andes Mountains, the pilot managed to send a message that later raised more questions than could have been the case. Using Morse code, the radio operator sent a strange message "STENDEC", which is still not solved.
The attention to this aircraft was special, because after its disappearance it was possible to find out more about the passengers. There were six of them and four crew members. But who they were is worthy of a real conspiracy theory. On board were:
- two businessmen who decided to go on a tour and find new clients;
- a stern-looking Englishman, a courier at the British embassy, there is a theory that he was transporting secret documents;
- a German woman who decided to return to her homeland after losing her husband, and most likely she was a criminal during the war;
- a Palestinian who reportedly carries a diamond in the lining of his jacket;
- a representative of a tire company, its sales agent, a former mentor to one of the European monarchs.
These citizens and the strange, mysterious message caused a real storm in the press, because taking this into account, many theories and hoaxes can be created.
The solution to the disappearance of Star Dust
The mystery of this event was revealed only in 2000, when several climbers accidentally found a piece of an airplane engine. And when the expedition went there, they were able to establish the reason for the disappearance of the plane. Apparently, the pilot, making his calculations, made a mistake with their position and, deciding that they had already flown over the mountains, began to descend. The skin of the aircraft is not able to withstand long periods of time at high altitude, so due to the pressure, the radio operator's attention could be confused, and his message could mean a "descent" command. And when the plane crashed into the mountains, it provoked an avalanche, which hid the aircraft from prying eyes for half a century.
The Mystery of Flight 191
Here we are talking not about one, but about several incidents, the connecting link of which is the flight number. The crash of American Airlines Flight 191 is considered one of the worst accidents in US aviation history. Just a couple of minutes after takeoff, the plane carrying just under 300 people crashed at the Chicago airfield.
Also in 1967, in another incident, an experimental aircraft carrying Flight 191 crashed, killing the pilot. And in 2012, the crew of JetBlue Airways Flight 191 had a real panic attack that the passengers had to contain. Based on this data, many airlines have decided to exclude this flight number from their flight schedules.
The Mystery of Flight 914
Probably one of the most controversial legends in aviation is the unidentified mystery - flight 914. Many skeptics argue that this is a canard, an invention of the yellow press. But in fact, there is neither confirmation nor worthy refutation of this story.
In 1955, a DC-4 flew from New York to Miami. There were 57 passengers and a crew of pilots on board. There is evidence that the same plane appeared on the runway of one of the airports in Venezuela. According to some reports, there is information that the pilot of the ghost flight contacted airport employees and there is a recording of their conversation.
A sign that something was wrong was that a fairly old plane began to land on the runway, which was not visible on the radar. After establishing communication between the pilot and the airport, it was possible to find out what kind of flight it was and how many passengers were on board. The pilot's voice was quite confused and frightened. The controller said where the plane was, and after that there was silence. And it’s not surprising, because the distance between the original destination and this airport is very large. When they reported over the communications what the time difference was, the pilots got scared and flew away. As the ground crew approached, one of the pilots waved a folder at them, from which a small 1955 calendar flew out. It is believed that information on the Flight 914 case is partially classified.
Missing planes (according to military testimony)
- The first case recorded by the military occurred in 1945. Then the young sergeant was supposed to transfer the plane from Kansas to Puerto Rico, but did not land at its destination. The search for the guy and the plane was unsuccessful.
- In 1947, a US Marine military transport plane disappeared. There were 32 passengers on board. The wreckage of the plane was found, but the bodies of the passengers and crew were not.
- In 1965, a military transport plane with spare parts for equipment on board disappeared. He disappeared a hundred miles before landing.
- In 1972, a twin-engine private plane carrying several politicians disappeared. The last time the pilot made contact was 12 minutes after the start of the flight. Despite the extensive searches that were carried out, no information could be found.
- In 1978, a carrier-based attack aircraft disappeared without a trace in the Gulf of Mexico.
Conclusion
These are not all cases of missing planes. Many countries appear in materials marked “airplane missing.” Indonesia is among them. In fact, anything can happen in the sky. You can find stories that include the plane that disappeared on March 8, and many others. Scientists have been developing theories for years regarding the influence of the earth's magnetic field and space-time discontinuities. Only one thing is clear, as soon as the first aircraft took off into the air, not at all small objects began to disappear. And many of them are under very strange circumstances.
Do not think that stories about missing planes are just myths and fiction. Such cases still occur regularly, despite the fact that, as it seems, every piece of the sky is covered by radar networks. However, planes sometimes still do not reach their destination, and some of them are never found.
Strange disappearances
Cases of missing planes are some of the most mysterious and mysterious in the history of aviation. For example, in 1947, a transport plane flying from Argentina to Chile disappeared without a trace. The Star Dust board, immediately before its disappearance, transmitted a very strange message to the ground, the meaning of which is still unclear.
For half a century nothing was known about his fate. Search teams managed to discover it only in the late 90s. The wreckage of the plane ended up in the Argentine Andes, in the area of Tupungato Peak. A thorough investigation showed that the cause of his death was a collision with the ground.
Ghost plane
Even more frightening are the stories when missing aircraft began to appear from time to time in the places where they disappeared. For example, in 1955, a plane with 57 passengers on board, flying from New York to Miami, disappeared without a trace. After a long and fruitless search, everyone on board was officially declared dead.
Almost 40 years after this tragedy, a ghost plane landed in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas as if nothing had happened. Eyewitnesses claim that the plane did not spend long on the runway. The pilot of the plane talked to the dispatchers, was surprised at the date they told him, and then lifted the aircraft with passengers into the air and this time disappeared forever. There is still no rational explanation for this mysterious story.
Pilot suicide
The subtitle contains only one version of what happened to the missing Malaysian airline plane, which disappeared in 2014. Until now, nothing is known about the fate of the 239 passengers and crew members.
Today, the following versions are also considered: capture by terrorists, technical malfunction; new theories still appear regularly.
It is reliably known that the plane disappeared from radar approximately an hour after it left Kuala Lumpur. He was flying to China, but five hours after takeoff he was declared missing. The last time it appeared on radars was over the territory of southern Vietnam. It soon became clear that for unknown reasons, 4 hours after departure, he found himself hundreds of kilometers from the intended route. At the same time, he significantly changed the height to a lower one. All this indicated that it was most likely impossible to talk about equipment failure, and the deviation from the route was deliberate.
Later information appeared that the plane crashed in the southern Indian Ocean off the coast of Australia. But so far it has not been possible to officially identify the wreckage.
Hijacking in Uganda
Another case of a missing plane occurred in Uganda. The Boeing was stolen from the international airport in the capital Luanda. And this happened under very strange circumstances.
Flight engineer Padilla and private pilot Mutantu were on board at the time. None of them knew how to fly such an aircraft. However, when they boarded the aircraft, the plane began to move chaotically along the runway. It then took off with the lights off. Neither the plane nor the two men were seen again.
Incident in Vietnam
Often mysterious disappearances aircraft occur during hostilities. Many people attribute this to the machinations of enemy aircraft, but some details cannot be explained.
At the very beginning of the Vietnam War, an American plane carrying soldiers and officers disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. At the time of the mysterious incident, there were 107 passengers and crew members on board.
The plane was refueled in Guam and flew to the Philippines, but never reached its destination. It disappeared over the Pacific Ocean, but no bodies or wreckage were ever found.
An hour after the plane last made contact, an explosion was spotted in the sky. The message came from an American tanker. It has not yet been possible to find out whether it was sabotage, an enemy missile or a technical malfunction.
Glenn Miller's last flight
The question of where planes disappear has long been of concern to many who are interested in this topic. No less mysteriously, passengers who flew on them often disappear. And sometimes they become world famous people.
The most famous and misterious story This kind of thing happened to American jazzman Glenn Miller. In December 1944, he was on a British plane from England to Paris to give another concert. The crew of the aircraft were called legends of aviation, only the best at that time served in the British Air Force. Therefore, there was no doubt about their professionalism. However, the plane in which Miller was flying never arrived at its destination.
The jazzman, who joined the army at 38, was already too old to be drafted but was at the height of his popularity. Therefore, he was willingly accepted as a musician who supported the spirit of the soldiers, and was even given the rank of major.
By official version, the plane disappeared from radar in bad weather while flying over the English Channel. However, there were many other versions.
Some claimed that it was shot down by the German Air Force, others that the plane did land in Paris, and Miller became a victim of the Parisian traitors. Already in the 90s, one German journalist put forward a completely fantastic version. As if Miller died in the arms of a French prostitute, and the Americans thus decided to hide the truth.
Perhaps the most plausible explanation for what happened was given by British Air Force navigator Fred Shaw. According to him, Miller's death was a fatal accident. Most likely, his plane was hit by bombs dropped by British aircraft after an unsuccessful raid on Germany.
Trip around the world
Going around the world is always a dangerous and risky activity. This is confirmed by the story of the first female pilot, Amelia Earhart. She was the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean alone, and in 1937 she went around the world.
She was assisted in this by navigator Fred Noonan. Contact with them was lost in the area of Howland Island, located above the Pacific Ocean. Their searches yielded no results. According to the official version set forth by the American government, they ran out of fuel. But there are other opinions.
There is a version that Earhart was a secret agent, so she made an emergency landing on an island occupied by the Japanese. There she was taken prisoner. Some believe that she returned to the United States alive and well and changed her name.
However, there is credible evidence that indicates that Earhart's plane made an emergency landing on desert island in the Pacific Ocean. There they found themselves isolated. The International Historic Aircraft Restoration Task Force has been investigating since 1989. They managed to find many finds that could belong to Earhart and her navigator. Some members of the group are convinced that this is precisely the case of a missing plane that was found many years later.
The investigation is still not completed.
Bermuda Triangle
Many mysterious stories are associated with the mysterious Bermuda Triangle. In 1945, an entire squadron of American bombers disappeared over this place, which many consider paranormal.
They took off from the air base to learn how to navigate over water. As a result, the planes disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle, and with them 14 men who were on board at that time.
Events developed rapidly. Just two hours after departure from the base, the squadron commander transmitted information that the compasses had failed and they were unable to accurately determine their location. Such malfunctions affected all aircraft. Attempts to get out of this situation continued for two hours. After this, the squadron commander ordered all crew members to jump out of their aircraft because they were running out of fuel.
The plane that went to search for them also disappeared. There were 13 other people on board. A tanker located off the coast of Florida reported an explosion, which was noticed 20 minutes later when a rescue plane went to the rescue.
Over the next few days, the square in which the aircraft disappeared was examined far and wide, but no traces of the missing aircraft could be found.
Lost art
In 1979, a misfortune befell a Brazilian plane transporting works of art. Their value was so high that they are valued at approximately one million dollars. The Boeing took off from Tokyo and was heading to Rio de Janeiro.
On board were one and a half hundred paintings by the famous Brazilian painter Manubo Mabe. What happened to the plane remains unclear. They are even considering an air robbery.
Rain and frost
Heavy rain and frost are cited as the reasons for the loss of another airliner. In 1951, a Canadian airline plane transported American soldiers and officers from Vancouver to Tokyo. He disappeared without a trace somewhere in the Alaska region.
Along the way, the plane encountered bad weather conditions. Freezing cold and heavy rain, very low visibility - no more than 150 meters. This data turned out to be the last that the pilots managed to transmit to air traffic controllers on the ground. After that they no longer contacted each other.
Six crew members, all Canadians, and 31 passengers were missing. These included both military and American civilian government employees.
Engine problems
Technical malfunctions are often reported shortly before planes go missing, but these versions are not always confirmed. In 1964, a DC-4 plane disappeared off Wake Island in the central Pacific Ocean.
The last time the pilot made contact, he reported engine problems. At this time, he was 800 kilometers from Los Angeles, from where he took off. Searchers who went to help found only a suspicious oil slick. There were no further traces of the plane or crew members.
As you can see, usually the disappearance of aircraft without a trace can be explained by technical malfunctions and bad weather conditions. But sometimes something happens that defies any reasonable explanation.
