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Flight MH370 Mystery

So far, no one has been able to find the Malaysia Airlines Boeing-777 and the 239 passengers on board, who disappeared without a trace on March 8 this year. Marc Dugain, an avid aviation enthusiast and author of novels such as Officers' Room and Edgar's Curse, is investigating.

“We are all lying. Mutual responsibility reigns in this case, there are too many inconsistencies. I don't trust anyone anymore." Ghyslain Wattrelos says these words with a smile to emphasize his unwavering determination, and then plunges into thought for a long time. Losing a wife and two children in one day is not just a tragedy. This is an incredibly heavy blow, which is completely impossible to prepare for. And to survive it requires tremendous efforts that this person has been making every day for the past nine months. Not losing your mind at the sight of this is very difficult. And it becomes even more difficult if those tasked with shedding light on what happened carefully dodge the answer, as if the accident of flight MH370, on which 239 people were missing, was only the result of tragic accident V safe world.

disappearance aircraft Air Malaysia, which was en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014, is unlike any of the accidents recorded so far. Added to his disappearance without a trace is the appearance in record time of a real wall of silence, which resembles the one that the US authorities created during the explosion of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of New England. In the case of MH370, after the initial storm of passion, silence came with such a speed that suggests that transparency in this case is not among the priorities. Of course, all this would be just speculation, if it were not for the threats cleverly formulated by an agent of Western intelligence services. Many spies are failed writers. Hence the fondness for the well-known metaphors by which they try to dissuade us from pursuing an investigation and make it clear that “this is an extremely sensitive and extremely difficult case” and that “it’s better to let time do its work rather than rush things with everyone.” possible risks in such a case. In the technological universe to which you and I belong, and in particular the American army, it cannot but be surprising that a 63-meter-long liner could just disappear without a trace. The disdainful attitude towards the families of the victims, who are treated extremely scornfully, is also surprising ... Francois Hollande has always been extremely active in all incidents with hostages, but he never found time to meet with the husband and father of the French passengers, who are still considered missing without lead.

The missing plane left no official trace either on land or at sea. Active searches on the site in the southwestern part indian ocean, which could be outlined using more than approximate data from an English geolocation satellite, did not give any results. Not a single piece of debris, not to mention the black boxes that would allow the circumstances of the drama to be reconstructed. By declaring the plane missing without a trace, the Malaysian authorities turned the families of the victims into passive witnesses. Almost nine months after the tragedy, they consider the case unsolvable. We are absolutely certain that it is not. On March 8 of this year, the commander of the Boeing 777-200, as usual, was preparing for the evening flight. On the way to the airport, he decided to attend the trial of the main Malaysian opposition leader, who was put on trial for "sodomy". Such a medieval accusation has much to say about the modernity of the local regime. For 57 years now, power in the country has been in the hands of a caste of corrupt politicians who are only concerned about personal gain and do not want to share anything. Zaharie Bin Ahmad Shah, 54, was an experienced pilot and part of the very elite that would like the country to enter a democratic era. The five-year sentence to the leader of the opposition was in his eyes proof that that time had not yet come, and, some say, deeply upset him. As for his personal life, he just went through a divorce. In addition, the commander of the ship could not have been unaware that a cargo of flammable lithium batteries was on board, which had already caused serious accidents.

Co-pilot Fariq Bin Ab Hamid was much younger (27 years old) and inexperienced, although he began his career at 20 years old. He was about to get married and was known for his love of reckless antics: for example, he once let two pilots into the cockpit foreign tourists breaking all the rules. The commander of the ship, of course, was aware of the cargo on board. Even a liner filled with passengers and luggage has a significant margin of carrying capacity. The invoice mentions a shipment of lithium batteries, which power most of the devices of our technological era. He could not help but know about their high flammability, which has already caused a number of serious accidents. This applies, for example, to the Boeing-747 UPS, which caught fire and then crashed near Dubai Airport. Did he somehow express his disapproval? We don't know. With the rest of the cargo, things are much more nebulous. The documents mention fresh fruits, although the season casts doubt on the reality of their existence. The company responsible for the cargo, NNR Global Logistics, has been repeatedly approached with inquiries, but it clearly follows the requirement not to open its mouth and maintains deathly silence. The commander of the ship could not help but familiarize himself with the list of passengers. It consisted mainly of Chinese, but there was also room for Malaysians and representatives of other nationalities, in particular two Americans and four French. He was unaware that two Iranians with stolen European passports were on board, and that several people worked in the air traffic control service. One of the passengers, Australian Paul Wicks, had a premonition of the coming drama. Prior to that, he survived the earthquake in New Zealand and a serious car accident. He was convinced that his hour had come, and he gave his wife a ring and a watch to pass on to his two children. His wife persuaded him to take them back, but he left her with the certainty that he was seeing her for the last time.

Kuala Lumpur Airport has long had a reputation for being a real sieve. Could other passengers not included in the list have been on board the aircraft? Such a possibility cannot be ruled out. But one thing can be said with complete certainty. The pilots knew very well that their aircraft was one of the best-selling models in the world and true pride Boeing, which turned this liner into one of the most reliable cars on our planet, even if there are signs of wear on the hull of the oldest examples.

Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur at 00:41 local time. At 01:01, the crew reported that the liner had reached a cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. The ACARS system, which transmits technical flight data to the technical service, was operating normally. The plane was moving north towards Beijing. The flight schedule was supposed to fly over the territory of Vietnam. Last time the conversation between the pilots and the control room took place when the liner was leaving Malaysian airspace. The co-pilot said goodbye to his interlocutors: “Good night! Malaysia 370". Subsequently, references began to appear to a certain story of the controller that the words of the co-pilot sounded in a sardonic tone, that there was some kind of challenge in them, and that this allegedly could be a harbinger further developments. Be that as it may, there is no reason to believe that these words or their intonation were different from the usual ones. At 01:19, when the plane left Malaysian airspace, no oddities were observed in flight. But then everything abruptly went downhill. Just three minutes later, at 01:22, the transponder (this device is responsible for determining the location of the liner from the ground and other aircraft) suddenly turned off. It represents the last means of communication with the outside world and is only deactivated by the crew in case of serious power problems.

Another three minutes later, the plane suddenly deviated from its intended course and, apparently, moved into reverse direction. At 01:30, Vietnamese controllers from Ho Chi Minh City were unable to establish contact with MH370 and asked the liner, which was supposedly closest to it, to do so. Its pilot heard only an unintelligible murmur over the background noises. At 01:37, the ACARS system, which was supposed to transmit new information, did not send updated data. At 01:38, the Ho Chi Minh air traffic control service turned to colleagues from Kuala Lumpur to inquire about the MH370: the aircraft did not get in touch, as required by the schedule, and disappeared from the radar at the BITOD point. Kuala Lumpur responded that MH370 had not been contacted since crossing IGARI, the last one under their observation. At 02:03, Malaysia Airlines, which was notified of the disappearance of the liner, sent a message to the crew demanding to immediately contact the Vietnamese air traffic controllers. There was no answer. At 02:15, Kuala Lumpur dispatchers contacted the Malaysia Airlines Control Center. There they were told that Flight 370 was still receiving signals and that it was in Cambodian airspace. Three minutes later, at 02:18, Kuala Lumpur air traffic controllers contacted colleagues from Ho Chi Minh City to find out if the MH370 was supposed to enter Cambodian airspace. The answer came right away.

The intended course did not include the territory of Cambodia, and responsible persons confirmed that the plane was not moving in that direction. At 02:22, the last contact was made between the Malaysian military radar and the liner, which, according to its testimony, was located 370 kilometers northwest of Penang. At 02:25 a technical request was sent to the aircraft via Inmarsat satellite. It was about the transfer of information about the operation of Rolls-Royce engines. On all modern aircraft, they regularly communicate with the manufacturer at a given time via satellite. The aircraft accepted the request, but there was no response. This happened every hour until the supposed final disappearance of the liner. At 02:24 a.m., the Malaysia Airlines control center dropped the previous claim regarding the connection to the flight. However, just a minute later, Kuala Lumpur controllers were informed from there about the location of the aircraft in the air over northern Vietnam. This information was transferred to Ho Chi Minh City. At 02:39 an attempt was made to contact the cockpit via the satellite phone installed in the liner: unsuccessfully. At 03:30, the Malaysia Airlines control center informed Kuala Lumpur that the aircraft's position was reported based on forecasts and not real facts. At 05:30, the Kuala Lumpur Air Rescue Coordination Center was activated. At 06:30, when flight MH370 was due to arrive in Beijing, the missing plane was reported to the families of the passengers, who were shocked by the news. At 07:13, another unsuccessful attempt was made to contact the liner by phone. 07:24 the press was officially informed about the disappearance of the liner. At 08:19, the last, apparently very weak satellite signal was received from it.

After the loss of the aircraft, there was no talk of any exchange of information, and all satellite communications were limited only to the detection of signals. On their basis, the British company involved in the operation of the satellite could, using extremely complex formulas, determine the trajectory of the aircraft, which, after the disappearance of the liner from the radar, served as the basis for the search. If you believe the arch drawn by specialists, the plane could go both north to Kazakhstan and south to Australia. And since the movement to the north would take place over land, the liner would have to be detected by military or civilian radars. From this it was concluded that the flight could only have been heading south on a trajectory across the Indian Ocean to the west of Australia. It was there that the search began, which nevertheless did not yield any results.

Even if everyone on board died due to lack of oxygen, the liner can move for several more hours on autopilot.

To be continued...

Authorities in Australia, China and Malaysia announced the end of the search Boeing liner 777-200 Malaysia Airlines. The plane was flying MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and disappeared from radar screens on the night of March 8, 2014. On board were 227 passengers and 12 crew members. 26 states tried to unravel the mystery of the crash. The total cost of investigating the crash approached $200 million. Fragments found did not help shed light on the reasons for the disappearance of the aircraft. About the main versions of the tragedy, including mystical ones, and why none of them received confirmation, in the RT material.

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Chronicle of tragedy

On March 8, 2014 at 00:42 Malaysian time, the Boeing MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing. The flight took place in the normal mode. The last time the crew got in touch was at 01:19, during the transition from the zone of responsibility of the Malaysian controllers to the Vietnamese ones. The pilots wished their Malaysian colleagues "Good night". At 01:21 there was a shutdown of transponders transmitting information about the location of the aircraft and its identification data. At 01:22 a.m., the Boeing disappeared from the radar screens of the air traffic control services. After that, he was in the air for about seven more hours, but drastically deviated from planned route. At 08:11, the aircraft received the last signal to the Inmarsat satellite, through which the Boeing 777 transmitted technical information about the operation of its Rolls-Royce engines to ground services. At 09:15, the airliner no longer responded to a communication request from Inmarsat.

The liner was searched in the South China and Andaman Seas, in the Strait of Malacca and in the Indian Ocean. The area of the studied territories is 7.7 million km². Deep-sea searches were also carried out over an area of 60,000 km².

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Restore by fragments

The first fragment of the airliner was discovered only a year after the disappearance of MH370 - in July 2015, a wing part and a door were found on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean. The rest of the finds came in 2016: in March, the wreckage of the aircraft was found on the shore of the strait between Madagascar and Mozambique, in May, a fragment of the wing was found on the island of Mauritius, and in June, another part of the wing was found off the coast of Tanzania. However, all this did not help to narrow the search area for the airliner and determine its location.

uncontrolled fall

One of the versions put forward by experts is the fall of the plane. According to this hypothesis, the liner was not controlled by the pilot at the fatal moment. This, according to the representative of the Australian Transportation Safety Authority Greg Hood, is indicated by the analysis of Boeing signals. Presumably the liner crashed on March 9, 2014 at 08:19. At that point, it ran out of fuel and two engines caught fire. According to experts, the plane crashed into the Indian Ocean at a tremendous speed - up to 20 thousand feet (6096 m) per minute. The board, most likely, collided with the surface of the ocean almost at a right angle. This explains his disappearance without a trace.

Human factor

Many call the commander of the crew, Zachary Ahmad Shah, the culprit of the tragedy. The FBI searched his home and found a simulator simulating the cockpit of an airliner. Decryption of hard drives showed that about a month before the crash, the pilot worked out a route that would lead to the crash of the ship into the Indian Ocean. This is what investigators believe Ahmad Shah did in reality. The alleged reason for this act is depression due to the upcoming divorce from his wife.

Boeing crew commander Zachary Ahmad Shah (right) with friend Peter Chong (left).
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Information or life

Among the scenarios for the disappearance of Boeing, there are truly detective ones - the plane was hijacked and landed at one of the military airfields. The target of the hijacking was on board 20 leading scientists (12 Chinese and 8 Malaysians) from Freescale Semiconductor, who were developing state-of-the-art technologies for aircraft, making them invisible to radar, and camouflage devices.

This version is supported by the fact that Zachary Ahmad Shah used his home flight simulator to practice landing at five airfields in the Indian Ocean, including runway airfield military base United States Diego Garcia. Shortly before the fatal flight, for some reason he erased this data, as well as all his work and social plans in his diary.

An even more twisted version of the hijacking for the sake of obtaining invaluable information on stealth technology belongs to former pilot Delta airlines Field McConnell. He claims that the crew of the aircraft was eliminated, after which MH370 was intercepted by the US military and landed remotely on the island of Diego Garcia on secret base US Air Force. Then the liner was allegedly lifted into the air again by the same remote method and sunk in the Indian Ocean.

The alleged fragment of the aircraft was found at east coast Africa.

mysterious cargo

The conspiracy theories don't end there. The reason for the disappearance of Boeing is also called a certain mysterious cargo who was on board. In addition to luggage, the plane allegedly carried about 4 tons of exotic mangosteen fruit, 220 kg of lithium batteries for phones and computers, as well as 2 tons of some kind of electronic equipment, the sender of which is "classified by agreement with the airline."

Operation antiterror

Another version says that Boeing was captured by terrorists and shot down. According to the former head of French airlines Proteus Airlines, Marc Dugen, the plane was destroyed by the US military, who suspected that the airliner had been hijacked by terrorists. So the Americans played it safe to prevent a repetition of the events of September 11, 2001. This option is supported by the fact that there were two passengers on board on false passports - the Iranians Puria Nur Mohammad Merdad and Delaware Seyyed-Mohammadreza.

Just fantastic

There are absolutely fantastic versions of the disappearance of the Malaysian Boeing. In two years, a lot of them have accumulated: the plane became invisible, fell into a black hole or into the new Bermuda Triangle. However, no one has yet been able to test either these or more realistic hypotheses.

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 often encounter 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 marvels of technology, and some cases in which missing aircraft appear are presented in this article.

Malaysia Airlines MH370

A lot of attention at one time was attracted by a plane that disappeared on flight MH370. Millions of people from all over the world followed this event. On March 8, 2014, the flight took off from the Malaysian airport located in Kuala Lumpur, and was supposed to go to Beijing. There were about 300 passengers and crew members on it, and to this day no one is able to answer what happened to this flight.

Having flown about 220 kilometers from the coast of the country, the plane disappeared from the radar. This happened about an hour later, as the car took off. The missing Malaysia-Beijing plane is still being searched, but no wreckage, no traces of passengers or crew have been found yet.

Amelia Earhart

One of the most famous in the event is considered to have occurred in 1937. Then an American woman named Amelia Earhart set off in her two-seat monoplane, which was called the Elektra, on a journey over the Pacific Ocean. She took off in the area of Howland Island with the aim 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 tried to find evidence of her crash or cunning, but so far, neither the wreckage of her aircraft nor herself has been found. To date, this case is one of the mysteries called "Secrets of the missing planes."

Authorities declared her dead two years after the incident. But until now, some historians believe that she is alive.

Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle

most mysterious and mysterious place on the planet, it is considered the territory that is called This is a fairly large space between Florida and Puerto Rico. It was in this area that the most happened mysterious disappearances, and not only aircraft, but also ships. One of the most notorious cases where there are missing aircraft occurred on December 5, 1945. It is believed that it was from this moment that the whole hoax of this place began. Then there was a training mission of torpedo bombers. Five planes took off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with an experienced instructor with them.

An hour and a half after the start of the mission, the pilots contacted the controller, 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 see. The pilots also mentioned that their compasses were not working and were completely out of order. There were noticeable deteriorations in the weather, and since the coast was not visible, the pilots decided to land on the water surface. After that, neither the missing aircraft nor their crews were found. Even more mystical was the fact that one of the planes that was sent to find five torpedo bombers also disappeared without a trace.

Star Dust and the mysterious Morse code

As early as August 1947, British South American Airways flew its Star Dust aircraft from Argentina to Chile. The departure took place from Buenos Aires and the plane was supposed to land in the city of Santiago. But the flight never made it to its destination. Before the plane disappeared into the Andes Mountains, the pilot managed to send a message that later caused more questions than it could have been. Using Morse code, the radio operator sent a strange message "STENDEC", which has not yet been deciphered.

The attention to this aircraft was special, because after its loss it was possible to learn 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 decide to 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 she lost her husband, and most likely she was a criminal during the war;
a Palestinian, reportedly carrying a diamond in the lining of his jacket;
representative of a tire company, its sales agent, former mentor of one of the European monarchs.

These citizens and a strange, cryptic message caused a real storm in the press, because with this in mind, you can create many theories and hoaxes.

The solution to the missing Star Dust

The mystery of this event was only solved in 2000, when several climbers accidentally found a piece of an aircraft engine. And when the expedition went there, they were able to establish the reason for the loss of the aircraft. 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 aircraft skin is unable to withstand long time on high altitude, so due to the pressure, the radio operator could have confused attention, and his message could mean the command "descend". And when the plane crashed into the mountains, it provoked an avalanche, which hid aircraft from prying eyes for half a century.

Flight 191 Mystery

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 to be one of the worst accidents in US aviation history. Just a couple of minutes after takeoff, the plane, which was carrying a little less than 300 people, crashed at the Chicago airfield.

Also in 1967, another incident occurred, an experimental aircraft with Flight 191 crashed, taking the life of the pilot with it. And in 2012, the crew of JetBlue Airways Flight 191 had a real panic attack that passengers had to contain. Based on this data, many airlines have decided to exclude this flight number from their flight schedules.

Flight 914 Mystery

Probably one of the most controversial legends in aviation is the unidentified riddle - Flight 914. Many skeptics claim that this is a duck, an invention of the yellow press. But in fact, there is neither confirmation nor a 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 workers and there is a recording of their conversation.

The sign that something was wrong was that on runway a plane of rather old type began to land, which was not visible on the radars. After establishing a connection between the pilot and the airport, we managed 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 no wonder, because the distance between the original destination and this airport is very long. When they reported on the link 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. Flight 914 is believed to be partially classified.

Missing planes (according to the military)

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 the destination. The search for the guy and the plane was unsuccessful.
In 1947, a US Marine Corps military transport plane went missing. 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 went missing, carrying spare parts for equipment. He disappeared a hundred miles before landing.
In 1972, a twin-engine private jet with several politicians went missing. The last time the pilot contacted was 12 minutes after the start of the flight. Despite extensive searches, no information was ever found.
In 1978, the carrier-based attack aircraft disappeared without a trace in the Gulf of Mexico.

Conclusion

These are not all cases of missing aircraft. Many countries appear in the materials marked "missing plane." Indonesia is among them. In fact, anything can happen in the sky. You can find stories in which there is a plane that went missing on March 8, and many others. scientists for years develop theories regarding the influence of the earth's magnetic field and space-time gaps. 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.

IN different years planes disappeared without a trace in different parts of the world. Some have found. The mystery of the disappearance of some has not been solved so far ...

The plane that was found half a century later

On April 3, 1961, a Lan Chile plane disappeared in the Andes. There were 24 people on board, including 8 football players and two coaches from the Chilean football club Green Cross. The tail of the plane and part of the remains of people were found a week later. The plane crash was a big shock for Chile and for fans of professional football. There would be nothing mysterious in history if this plane had not been found again almost half a century later. In February 2015, Chilean climbers discovered the fuselage of an aircraft near the country's capital, Santiago. In addition to the wreckage, the remains of the dead were found at the crash site.

The Disappearance of Antoine de Saint-Exupery

On July 31, 1944, Antoine de Saint-Exupery went on a reconnaissance flight from an airfield on the island of Corsica in a Lockheed P38 Lightning fighter. The plane did not return to base, the writer disappeared. It was assumed that the writer could have deserted, had an accident or committed suicide (he suffered from depression). In 1998, a Corsican fisherman fished out a silver bracelet engraved with the name of the writer and his wife, the address of the publisher of The Little Prince. In 2003, after an underwater expedition, the wreckage of the aircraft was found near the island. Remains of a writer sea water rapidly dissolves bones) were not found. In 2008, the book "Saint-Exupery: The last secret by French journalist Jacques Pradel. In the book, 88-year-old German journalist and fighter pilot during the Second World War, Horst Rippert admitted that he shot down the same plane. In an interview, Rippert also said that he was a fan of Exupery, and if he had known that he was at the helm, he would never have started shooting. The wreckage of Exupery's plane is now in the Air and Space Museum at Le Bourget.

10 Missing Bermuda Triangle Planes

This is the story of how the Bermuda Triangle gained its infamous glory. On December 5, 1945, five torpedo bombers disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle, along with 14 crew members. A rescue seaplane went in search, which also disappeared. There were 13 people on board. Neither the wreckage nor the bodies of the crew were ever found. The reason for the disappearance is unknown: supposedly experienced military pilots who repeatedly flew in the area lost their orientation in space and crashed when they ran out of fuel. As for the seaplane, it most likely exploded due to a fuel leak (a technical flaw in this model). Traces of the accident were hidden by a hurricane - the area is considered meteorologically difficult.
After this incident, four more planes and 92 people disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle from 1948 to 1965. There were no more air crashes in the area.

Become a cannibal to survive

On October 13, 1972, a plane crashed in the Andes, carrying a team of Uruguayan rugby players and their relatives. 12 people died in a collision with the ground, some of the passengers died from severe injuries. On the tenth day after the accident, 28 people survived. The fuselage was at an altitude of 3600 meters, there were almost no food and water supplies, as well as medicines. The survivors heard on the radio that the search for the missing flight had ceased. Desperate people decided to eat the bodies of their dead comrades. Water was extracted from snow, which was drowned on metal fragments exposed to the sun. By the end of October, eight more people had died due to the avalanche. Wounded and weak people continued to die.
The two survivors decided to go for help. After twelve days of travel, they met a shepherd in the mountains, who reported the accident. 16 miraculously surviving passengers were found 72 days after the crash.

Malaysian Boeing

March 8, 2014 in the sky above South China Sea Missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777. The plane was flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. There were 239 people on board. During the investigation, it was found out that someone turned off the communication systems, then the plane changed course and circled in the sky for about 7 hours. In January 2015, the flight was officially recognized as missing, and the passengers and crew members were dead in order to start paying compensation to relatives. On March 8, 2015, on the anniversary of the tragedy, a report on the progress of the investigation was published - there was nothing new in it.
On July 29, a fragment of an aircraft wing was found on one of the beaches of Reunion Island to the east. The fragment was covered with sea shells, indicating that it had been in the water for a long time. The fragment was sent for examination. The assumptions were confirmed.

Today, many people prefer to get to a particular city or country by plane, because it is very convenient and fast. Modern liners have supersonic speed they are comfortable and spacious. Moreover, airfare prices are getting cheaper every year. Comfort in them is comparable to traveling in a train compartment. However, in terms of security technical progress did not achieve great results. Unfortunately, on the contrary, modern liners crash much more often than older models. This is not always due to the human factor or weather conditions. Aircraft crashes are often caused by malfunctioning aircraft. Before departure, they are not adequately checked, which leads to tragedy.

History knows a lot of sad cases when planes went missing. Some were found and others were not. Even the technology of tracking the liners did not help to find some of the missing vehicles. Once a plane has gone off the radar, finding it is next to impossible. Alas, there have been many such lost liners in the history of aviation. Let's consider some of them.

History of famous planes that went missing:

The plane disappeared in 1937 "Lockheed Electra". It belonged to a writer from the United States of America - Amelia Earhart. In the summer of that year, she was going to commit on it trip around the world. During the flight, the liner was spotted near the Pacific Ocean. Then he suddenly disappeared from sight, after which he was never found. It is still unclear whether he fell into Pacific Ocean or not, or the plane crash happened far from the water. In general, neither the remains nor the aircraft were ever found.
1943 is the year when passenger airlinerDC-3 was fired upon by a Luftwaffe interceptor, after which no one could find him. It is noteworthy that the famous actor Leslie Howard was on board this plane.
In 1944, a plane disappeared over the English Channel without a trace. UC-64, which flew the American musician Glenn Miller. Presumably, the liner fell into the British Channel.
In Argentina in 1947, a passenger airliner StarDust, flying from Buenos Aires, went missing. His search lasted until 2000, when experts concluded that he had collided with the ground in controlled flight. The remains were never found.
1951 - military transport aircraft Douglas C-124A disappeared near Ireland. There is information that despite the fire on board, he managed to land successfully, however, when rescuers arrived, he disappeared without a trace. No one was able to figure out where the airliner could have gone.
The plane went missing in 1952 C-124 Globemaster, the crew of which consisted of 52 people. After 60 years, its fragments were found in the ice. Presumably, he had an accident due to poor visibility.
In 1962, another plane went missing - Flying Tiger Flight. The best search groups were engaged in the search for this liner, but, alas, no remains or wreckage were found. The circumstances of this tragedy have not yet been clarified, since the weather was then clear, the plane was prepared for departure very carefully, and an experienced pilot controlled it.
In 1965 the plane C-119 disappeared on Bahamas under unclear circumstances. Even the approximate place where he could disappear has not been established. Interestingly, some associate this case with alien abduction.
In 1972, an airliner that flew from Santiago went missing in Chile. There is information that he collided with a rock, as a result of which half of the people on board died.
1978 - the liner disappeared Cessna 182L, which was driven by a 20-year-old pilot.

Missing planes don't end there. In more modern times there were also incidents related to the disappearance of aircraft without a trace. It is impossible not to remember these liners:

1979 - half an hour before departure, a Boeing 707-323C cargo aircraft suddenly disappeared along with 6 crew members. Extensive searches were carried out, but they did not yield any results. It is still not clear where this aircraft could have gone.
1989 - regional aircraft Fokker F27, which carried out domestic flight, disappeared without a trace. Even the most experienced search expeditions could not find it. There are several versions of what happened and even unidentified remains, but there is still no official confirmation that this is the Fokker F27.
1996 - in America, due to difficult weather conditions, the Learjet 35A business class liner disappeared. He tried several times to sit down, but then suddenly disappeared and no one saw him again. The crew consisted of only two people. For about three years they were looking for this flying machine, but the search did not bring results.

Many have heard of the incident, called the "Bermuda Triangle". Let's consider in more detail.

Missing planes in the Bermuda Triangle

The excitement around the ill-fated Bermuda Triangle began in 1945. Then in December, 5 bombers disappeared in the Atlantic region. In addition, under unclear circumstances, a rescue liner disappeared, which went in search of military vehicles. Then several training planes took off from the American airfield in order to conduct training, check flight, etc. Their flight was supposed to last for three hours. The crew consisted of a pilot, navigator and radio operator. The training proceeded as usual, no emergency situations occurred until the pilot noticed that visibility had deteriorated significantly and the aircraft had gone off course. He was constantly in touch, but at some point it broke off and no one else saw these planes. The search yielded no results, despite the fact that the best rescue teams were involved. Moreover, the flying boat that first went to the rescue was also not found.

It is noteworthy that during the flight, the pilot pointed out to dispatchers places that were not even nearby in that area. It is not at all clear how he could see them, and why the remains of the aircraft were not found. There are many versions regarding this disaster. Some associate it with the abduction by aliens, while others, on the contrary, strongly refute this version. Skeptics believed that the incident was related to weather conditions, which are unforeseen in that area. They also flew jet liners, because of which plane crashes often occur to this day. As we can see, opinions are completely different.

Many newspapers, books and even films were made about this incident. The public was shocked after this news. Many could not understand how experienced pilots on aircraft that had endured the most difficult military tests could disappear without a trace during a training flight. In addition, the area in which they were, was painfully familiar to them, since during the Second World War they flew over it many times. In general, the story of the Bermuda Triangle is very mysterious and incomprehensible. There are still no exact versions of what happened, only assumptions. It is naive to associate them with UFO because various unforeseen circumstances could serve as the reasons. Air travel is always a big risk. Anything can happen in the air emergency situations, so only big dreamers can believe that the lost ships are somehow connected with aliens.

One of the most "convincing" versions of the missing planes

Modern Missing Aircraft That Have Never Been Found

The 21st century, unfortunately, is also rich in tragedies, as a result of which planes went missing. Here are the most famous:

In 2007, a single-engine aircraft crashed in the United States of America, resulting in the disappearance of the famous pilot who flew it. The pilot had a lot of successful flights on his account, so what happened shocked the whole of America. The search went on for a very long time. Only in 2008 were the wreckage of a similar aircraft found. It was not possible to prove exactly that it was Belanka Super Decathlon.
In May 2009, a new mysterious incident happened. Airliner A330 flew from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. During the flight, the pilots informed the controllers about poor visibility, after which communication with him was permanently lost. Later, the remains of a similar liner were found, but again, it was not possible to prove that it was the A330. Nobody could survive that catastrophe.
2012 is a catastrophe in the Russian Federation. An An-2 aircraft with 12 passengers on board took off without permission in an unknown direction. The reasons for this behavior of the pilots have not yet been clarified. The plane got lost en route and was never seen again.

Many people know the story about the Boeing 737, which was flying from Greece and suddenly disappeared from sight. Let's find out in more detail what kind of disaster it was and what is the result of those events.