The most mysterious plane disappearances
Today we have an interesting topic, namely the disappearance of planes (which still can not be found). We have compiled a list of the most high-profile cases and hope you will be interested.
✈️ Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
One of the greatest aviation mysteries is the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, with 239 people on board.
The plane disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. Rescuers spent months combing the seabed and the southern Indian Ocean, but eventually the efforts were stopped.
Amelia Earhart is the first female pilot to fly over the Atlantic Ocean.
On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan took off from New Guinea in a Lockheed Electra 10E on one of the last stages of their round-the-world flight. However, the Lockheed Electra disappeared over the Pacific Ocean, and nothing more was heard about the pilot-innovator.
At the height of World War II, the U.S. Navy sent five torpedo bombers on a routine training flight over the Bermuda Triangle. No one else saw or heard from all 14 crew members on board the five military aircraft.
A few hours later, the Navy sent 13 more people to a search and rescue operation on a Marine flying boat. No one else saw them either.
In 1962, during the preliminary stages of the Vietnam War, US Army Flight 739 Flying Tiger disappeared over the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean en route to the Philippines from Guam.
There were no distress signals. Despite an exhaustive search team consisting of 1,300 people, 48 aircraft and eight surface ships, all of which covered approximately 144,000 square miles, nothing was ever found.
✈️ Uruguay Air Force Flight 571.
A Uruguayan Air Force plane with 40 passengers, including members of the Uruguay national rugby team, as well as five crew members went missing while crossing the Andes on October 13, 1972.
Seventy-two days later, after all those on board were declared dead, 16 survivors surfaced. The story of how, due to hunger, they ate the flesh of some dead passengers was filmed in the 1993 film "The Living".
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