Missing plane flights. Missing planes. Mysterious cases. Modern Missing Aircraft That Have Never Been Found
Travel by plane to modern world this is undoubtedly convenient and fast - the latest liners have supersonic speed. In an hour, they are able to cover a distance of 1000 km. And the comfort of travel is comparable to traveling in a comfortable train compartment. But with the safety of flights, progress cannot boast of great achievements. Despite the fact that there are technologies behind the control of the flight by air traffic controllers, and the equipping of aircraft with advanced means of controlling all systems, the flight often ends in an unpredictable plane crash. And it is quite difficult to understand the reasons for the crash or disappearance of an aircraft from radar screens. And for the relatives of the dead, the only consolation will be paid insurance.
The history of aeronautics has many very mysterious events. For example, the disappearance in the famous bermuda triangle five military aircraft at once in 1945.
December 1945, Bermuda Triangle
Most of the strange disappearances of aircraft and ships are almost always associated with anomalous zones Earth. The Bermuda Triangle zone has long been associated with mysterious disappearances, in which radio communication is lost, and orientation devices either show incomprehensible data or completely fail.
The same thing happened to a squadron of five Evager military aircraft that went missing in December 1945 over the Bermuda Triangle. The last communication session was after an hour and a half of flight. Pilots reported incomprehensible behavior of the instruments by which they determine their coordinates. Also, via radio channels, pilots reported that the surface of the ocean looked unusual, and they were descending into white waters.
From the radio exchange between the ground and the squadron in the air, it was obvious that experienced military pilots encountered something completely unusual and incomprehensible.
The report of the pilots in the air looks like this:
1. A strange view of the ocean;
2. The color of the water has changed to white;
3. Failure of navigation instruments on board all aircraft!
The squadron tried for hours to find land, but to no avail. The ground controller wanted to redirect the squadron to the base, but communication with the pilots of the aircraft stopped for unknown reasons - the radio connection was cut off. Moreover, one of the pair of planes sent to search also disappeared, and no traces of the crash of the entire group of planes were found.
It must be understood that the events took place at the end of the war, just when relations between the former allies were rather complicated. There was a version about the “hand of the Kremlin”. The US military could not explain the loss of a squadron of aircraft, and the very fact of the loss was classified for many years.
Amelia Earhart
An earlier mysterious missing plane was in 1937, flown by renowned female pilot Amelia Earhart.
Amelia became a world celebrity after she independently flew through Atlantic Ocean.
The plane, a twin-engine monoplane "Electra", on board of which was the navigator Captain Fred Noonan, disappeared in the area of the Howland Islands in pacific ocean.
The unsuccessful search for the aircraft continued for two years.
What representatives of the commission, which are created every time during the investigation, say to the public similar cases or the loss of the plane, or the crash of the plane? The version about the human factor comes to the fore. This is how these commissions most often explain to the general public the behavior of an aircraft that defies reasonable explanation. At the same time, do not forget to mention that modern aircraft absolutely safe. But is it?
Boeing 707-323C over the Pacific
The Boeing 707-323C cargo aircraft of the commercial company Varig on January 30, 1979 performed cargo flight No. 967. The plane's route was Tokyo - Rio de Janeiro with waypoint In Los Angeles.
The plane took off from Tokyo at 22:45 and after 22 minutes a report on a normal flight followed from the crew commander to the ground. After this communication session, there were no signals from the liner. The dispatcher raised the alarm. The search for the aircraft, which lasted several days, was fruitless. The jet plane disappeared without a trace.
No fragments or fragments of the fuselage have been found so far. Despite the fact that the main version is the depressurization of the aircraft, the loss of a modern airliner remains one of the most mysterious and difficult to explain in the history of air travel. It is assumed that the crew lost consciousness, and the aircraft continued flying in autopilot mode until it ran out of fuel and managed to fly away from the search area.
Boeing 737 crash in Greece
But in the history of air transportation there are also cases of the death of a vessel for quite understandable reasons.
Thus, the Helios Airways Boeing 737 began flying along the regular Larnaca-Athens-Prague route. The plane took off in standard mode, but after that it did not respond to calls from the airport dispatcher. F-16s of the Greek Air Force were sent into the air to search. Military interceptor pilots caught up with the civilian aircraft and reported to the ground that the Boeing 737 pilots were unconscious.
The military clearly saw how a flight attendant and a steward appeared in the cockpit. Despite the fact that they had oxygen tanks, and the steward Andreas Prodromou had a pilot's diploma, he could not cope with the control of the aircraft. The airliner, after running out of fuel, collided with a mountain near Athens.
The investigation, which was opened after the crash, was able to establish that the cause of the crash was the depressurization of the cabin. The culprits were found. They turned out to be ground services, which, after a set of ground tests, forgot to turn on the auto-sealing of the cabin. This forgetfulness came at a cost. There were 121 people on that plane.
Every year, thousands of flights operate around the world. Including in the area of the Bermuda Triangle. And despite mysterious disappearances aircraft, air travel today, according to statistics, is the most reliable appearance transport. And the chance of dying in a car accident is much higher than in an aircraft flight.
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On October 1, 1974, from the airfield of the city of Monchegorsk to Kola Peninsula fighter-interceptor Yak-28P took off for the next combat mission. Some time after takeoff, he disappeared from the locator screens.
In July 2011, Aleksey Chebotok and his friend Timofey Khokhlov went in search of the wreckage of Henkel 111,
but they found this missing plane and its crew at an altitude of 1000 meters in the Khibiny mountains ...
In a detailed study of the wreckage, they were helped by comrades Dmitry Timofeev and Alexander Skotarenko (all of them have been walking in the mountains together for a long time and are engaged in paragliding) ...
Plane crash site:
View of the crash site towards Monchegorsk:
The group of the TV channel "Zvezda" - very courageous guys, went to the mountains for the first time, even survived the night descent with ropes.
The main thing is that you return to your airfield ...
February 6, 2012. Monchegorsky Rabochiy newspaper
"... Lyuda and Yura lived in the same district of Armavir. As it turned out, her way to work ran past the windows of his house, and the young man literally could not take his eyes off the beautiful stranger, not daring to approach for a long time. Then, according to Lyudmila, he was the stage of "great courtship", which must be seen and heard. Girlfriends, looking at the couple in love, were only touched. And when the young man proposed to Lyudmila to become his wife, she agreed without hesitation. for the industry of a vast country, an ordinary Soviet family.
In order to keep up with his young wife in education, fortunately, there was a head on his shoulders, Yura entered the Armavir Higher Military Aviation Command Pilot School. Blue epaulettes, with his first wings, were personally presented to junior lieutenant Yuri Saenko by a fighter pilot, three times a Hero Soviet Union Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin. Yuri was in seventh heaven with happiness.
Lyudmila had already graduated from the institute, she was left at the department in graduate school, but her husband received her first appointment - the village of Krymskaya, near Novorossiysk. As an indisputable plus in favor of the relocation, Yura gives two ironclad arguments for his wife: the village will soon be given the status of a city, and besides, as many as a hundred meters of asphalt have already been laid in its center! What is postgraduate school? Having collected their simple belongings, the young Saenko family moved to their destination.
In those distant times, the military had an unwritten law: five years of service - and you change the garrison. Therefore, it was not necessary to stay in one place. Moving from one military camp to another, Saenko made it a rule: wherever they went, do not remove the chandeliers, do not unscrew the light bulbs, do not touch the toilets, and leave everything that has accumulated in the kitchen. With me only a small rug that my parents gave me, a TV with legs and a refrigerator "Dnepr". That's all. Yes, another child would not be forgotten on the move! Charming daughter Inna. And so they lived. We lived wonderfully!
Arriving at the next duty station, the Nasosnaya station of the Baku Air Defense District, Yuri, who has shown himself to be a talented thinking officer, receives a tempting offer to enter the Yu.A. Gagarin Air Force Academy. Gathering and arranging everything Required documents, one day he came home and said to Lyudmila: “I'm sorry, but I'm not going anywhere. I don't want to be on staff. I'd rather fly!" The sky became his element and the meaning of existence!
The Saenko couple arrived in Monchegorsk in July 1972. Here, in the village Zhdanov (as it was then called
27 km), the second squadron of fighters was formed from the new arrivals. Captain Yuri Saenko began to fly in conjunction with Senior Lieutenant Alexander Ledyaev.
On October 1, 1974, final inspections were carried out in the military units on the Kola Peninsula. This time, the pilots of the 174th Guards Red Banner Pechenga Fighter Aviation Regiment named after B.F. Safonov, based with us, were tasked with becoming “targets” for southern parts Air defense from Afrikanda. However, we are getting ahead of ourselves. The task is still in secret packages, which the crews are ordered to open in the air. Eyewitnesses of those years note bad weather conditions, low clouds, but an order is an order. Eight combat vehicles - Yak-28P fighters, among which one is under the control of pilot Alexander Ledyaev and operator Yuri Saenko, one after another soar into the sky, leaving to the left over Imandra, climbing along the route. Khibiny ahead. mountain range insidious. Illuminations from the mountains to the Monchegorsk dispatcher leading the planes often give out failures. The targets disappear from the radar screen, and therefore they try to quickly transfer those leaving to the south under the control of Afrikanda - those controllers can see better. So it was this time. True, in a group closely following each other on the ground, it was not immediately determined that only seven aircraft passed the Khibiny ...
The crew of Ledyaev and Saenko did not get in touch.
Lyudmila Saenko found the news of the missing plane at work. A friend called on the 27th: “You, most importantly, don’t worry!”. Luda was shackled with deadly cold. Legs buckled. She, wife combat pilot, who replaced two garrisons, perfectly understood what such words meant ... They say that the Yurkin plane disappeared, ”the end of the monstrous phrase echoed in her head, and her eyes were already covered with a veil of tears. There was no longer even the slightest hope that the crew of the missing plane would be found safe and sound. Lyudmila had no doubt: if it happened an emergency situation, there will be no ejection, Yura and Sasha will try to save the plane to the end - this is the property of the country! They were brought up that way...
On alarm, immediately, rescue helicopters were raised into the sky. Square by square, the pilots combed the area. All to no avail. Surveys of local fishermen and hunters, whether they even heard the explosion, also came to nothing. In those places, in the mountains, in the development of deposits, the rock is often blown up, and therefore, if someone suddenly heard something, they did not attach any importance to this fact. Intensive searches continued until October 15, but the late first snowfall reduced all chances of finding the wreckage of the aircraft to zero. Searches this year, it was decided to stop. In the spring, search work resumed, but they were also unsuccessful. The crew was declared missing. Alexander Ledyaev was 24, Yuri Saenko - 28. Each house left a wife and a child ...
Lyudmila remained to live on the 27th, raising her daughter alone. Once she put Inna in front of her and literally on her knees asked: “Daughter, my dear sunshine, let’s never leave here?”
For ten years she could not eat fish and local game. The feeling that the guys are somewhere here, nearby ... Either in the water, or on the ground ... I could not.
She has no relatives and friends in the North, who can she turn to for help? Frightened by the fear of the unknown: what lies ahead and how to live on? But the people surrounding the young widow turned out to be people with a capital letter! In the city military registration and enlistment office, as soon as the order from the Ministry of Defense came from Moscow to “consider the pilots Saenko and Ledyaev dead during the performance of a combat mission,” without delay, they quickly and efficiently processed all the papers for receiving a widow's pension and child benefits. By education, a teacher, Lyudmila got a job in the 18th school. Here Galina Mikhailovna Medynskaya helped her a lot: “Lyuda, don’t give up, but we will help!”. In the city committee of the party, a young and energetic girl was also supported by putting her in a queue for an apartment. Four years later, in 1978, Lyudmila and Inna received their real first home on Leningradskaya Embankment in the thirtieth building. It would seem, what do people care about someone else's grief, someone else's misfortune? But they helped with the whole world, and Lyudmila felt this powerful support!
Six years after the tragedy, Lyudmila got married again. Mom convinced me not to withdraw into myself. There was a second family. husband, very good man, Igor Egorov worked at the Kola MMC. The second girl, Yulia, was born in the family. Unfortunately, a year ago Igor Alekseevich passed away. The children have grown up a long time ago, they have their own strong families. They live in St. Petersburg, and Lyudmila Vasilyevna is still here, teaching history at the Monchegorsk Polytechnic College for future metallurgists."
Lyudmila Vasilievna Saenko with veterans of the 174th IAP and the guys who found her husband:
Forty years later...
11/01/2012. Newspaper "Northern Star"
One of the cadets of the Armavir pilot school was a simple village boy Sasha Ledyaev from the small village of Malinovka, as if hidden among the forests.
During the cadet vacation, Alexander with joyful excitement told his relatives how one summer morning, with the first rays of the sun, he set off on his first flight in a jet training aircraft. He recalled how an interview was conducted with him before enrolling in the school to determine the seriousness of the intention to connect his life with military aviation how, with the help of special techniques, its qualities necessary for an air fighter were tested.
Examinations and the commission were not terrible for him. He was a strong-willed, erudite, physically healthy guy. All these qualities, necessary for a pilot, he developed during his three years of service in the navy. Alexander was well aware that the work of a pilot is a difficult and very responsible job. To be a pilot, especially a military one, means to be always disciplined, to have high professional skills and moral qualities. Our compatriot went to such difficult conditions consciously, and the runway of the school became a real road of life for him.
When the time came for the release, the choice was made - to fly in the sky of the Arctic. One of the first young pilots, A. N. Ledyaev, received permission to retrain for a modern interceptor aircraft and was sent to military unit 49207, based on the Kola Peninsula.
According to the command, during the service, our fellow countryman has proven himself to be an exceptionally disciplined, hardworking officer and a competent pilot. He flew boldly, confidently and with great desire. In a difficult situation, he always acted competently.
In his certification it says: he likes to fly, he transfers the load well. Flying in new conditions assimilates firmly. Confidently pilots the entrusted aircraft, in the air he is cold-blooded, self-possessed ...
There are also lines from the answer of the command of the unit: "... The aircraft piloted by Ledyaev was lost at a distance of 25 km from the airfield and was not detected by radar stations." On the same day, i.e. October 1, searches were organized, which continued with high intensity until October 20. In the early days, the task was to scan the flight area in order to find the crash site and get in touch with the pilots in the event of their ejection. In the following days, we proceeded to a detailed survey of the area in the aircraft flight path, taking into account all the above deviations.
The search involved simultaneously 4 helicopters and 3 aircraft. We used materials from a survey of people who at that time were in the forest, in the mountains and could become eyewitnesses of the incident. The weather until mid-October favored the conduct of search operations, and if there was at least the simplest signal from the pilots, they would have been found in the very first days. Based on the search results, we can assume that the plane fell into the deep part of Lake Imandra and sank. A storm wind blew away the traces of his fall. The search was stopped until spring, due to the fall of deep snow and the formation of freeze-up ...
According to the memoirs of the unit commander N. L. Kremenchuk, Alexander was a good pilot, before that he coped with more difficult and complex tasks than the one that had to be completed on October 1. He did everything he could to save his life and the navigator. But, obviously, circumstances were stronger.
This is practically all that was known about the fate of A. N. Ledyaev, and then almost forty years of uncertainty ...
L. V. Chichagin learned about the events with the plane of A. N. Ledyaev at the Ministry of the Navy, while on a business trip in Moscow. Having done his business in a hurry, he immediately left for Chirchik, where, after the departure of a friend, his parents lived in the school. Having received terrible news about his son, the father could not stand it, took to his bed and did not get up again. Then brother Ivan fell ill.
Unfortunately, Leonid Viktorovich could only see their monuments in the cemetery. Before him, the wife of Alexander Nikolaevich, Lyudmila Vasilievna, came there with her son Oleg to get acquainted with the parents of her husband and father, since before the tragic incident they did not know them.
The place of the crash and the remains of the Yak-28P aircraft in Murmansk region accidentally discovered by the surgeon of the Apatity City Hospital Alexei Chebotok. He reported this to the military registration and enlistment office, sent photographs of the wreckage of the aircraft and the remnants of the pilots' uniforms. The photo showed the numbers by which they identified the fighter, which disappeared without a trace almost forty years ago. There are suggestions that on the day of departure, due to adverse weather conditions, the plane crashed into a sheer cliff, causing a rockfall. Part of its fragments fell under the ledges of the rock, under the "cornices", and part - into the lake, so it was impossible to detect it from the air.
According to the materials of Internet sites.
Tatiana MIKHAILOVA
On November 3, 2012, 38 years after the disaster, the burial ceremony of the remains of Alexander Ledyaev and Yuri Saenko, the crew of the Yak-28P, took place at the Monchegorsk airfield.
Blessed memory to our guys who did not return from the flight ....
On behalf of all the ABBACUL members, many thanks to Alexei Chebotok and his friends....
The recent story of a Boeing flying from Malaysia has shaken everyone's imagination. How could an airplane, an iron bulk with 227 passengers on board, disappear without a trace? Until recently, the search teams could not find any traces of the crash, no bodies, no black boxes - the fate of the aircraft was a real mystery. Recently it was found that the missing Boeing 777 crashed in the south indian ocean. However, planes disappeared even before him - he is not the first and certainly not the last.
1 Boeing 727 stolen from airport in Luanda, Angola
On May 25, 2003, a Boeing 727-223 was stolen from Quatro de Fevereiro Airport. It belonged to the American airline Aerospace Sales & Leasing and was leased from Angolan Airlines at the time of its disappearance. The plane was out of order, and two people had to work on fixing it - Ben Charles Padilla, a certified flight engineer and aircraft mechanic with a private pilot's license, and his assistant John Mikel Mutantu. None of them could steal the plane: the assistant could not lift it into the sky, and the law-abiding Padilla had only a private pilot's license. After they boarded the plane, it began to move randomly along runway. The crew of the ship did not contact the controllers and took off without turning on the transponders. Since then, neither the plane nor the people have been seen.
Theoretically, Padilla could have been at the helm. It is believed that Angola did not pay the lease installments and he was hired to return the aircraft to the US. Another opinion says that both citizens were kept on board against their will.
2. At the beginning of the Vietnam War, the plane with the US military disappears in the sky over the Pacific Ocean
On March 6, 1962, US Air Force Flight 739 departed California for Vietnam, carrying 96 passengers and 11 crew members. Having sat down for refueling in Guam, the plane went to military base in the Philippines, but never reached it. He disappeared somewhere in the Western Pacific. Could not find any traces of the crash, no bodies. After communication with the aircraft was lost, information was received from a nearby tanker that an explosion had occurred in the sky.
Sabotage? Problem? Engine problems? No one knows.
3. A popular musician disappeared on a plane over the English Channel
On December 15, 1944, Glenn Miller, leader of one of the finest swing bands of all time, boarded a plane in England to take him to Paris. This never happened.
The American musician went to war in 1942, at the height of his popularity. At the age of 38, it was too late for him to become a soldier, but an army band played under his leadership.
The official version of his death is as follows. The plane flew over the English Channel bad weather and crashed. However, this is not the only opinion. Someone believes that the plane was shot down by enemy forces, and someone - that Glenn Miller did fly to Paris and was captured by a German detachment.
4. Amelia Earhart went missing while trying to fly around the globe.
The first female pilot to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an airplane. She went missing while flying over the Pacific Ocean, near Howland Island.
Earhart was searched, but no trace was found. It is believed that she failed to land on Howland Island and ran out of fuel. There are even crazier theories: allegedly she was a secret agent, flew on a mission to Japan, where she was discovered and imprisoned. The most pleasant version: Earhart returned home, changed her name and began to live a quiet, ordinary life.
There are witnesses (I wonder how they could see this?) who claim to have seen her plane land on the uninhabited island of Nikumaroro. In 1989, this version was tested, human bones, women's cosmetics, shoes and a jar of freckle cream were found on the island. Who to believe?
5. A squadron of five planes disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle
On December 5, 1945, these aircraft were on a navigational exercise and disappeared while flying over the Bermuda Triangle. There were 14 people in the squadron in total.
Two hours after the start of the flight, the squadron commander reported that his compass had broken and he could not determine his location. The same thing happened with other planes. After another two hours, incomprehensible confusing messages began to arrive. The last was the squadron commander's call to leave the planes as they were running out of fuel.
An hour later, a US Navy plane went to search and rescue the squadron, but the planes and people were gone. A nearby tanker reported seeing an explosion 20 minutes before the departure of the search engines. Hundreds of ships and planes searched for the missing squadron, they combed thousands of miles, but found nothing.
Source 6Brazilian Cargo Plane Carrying $1 Million Artwork
In 1979, a Brazilian airline Varig plane disappeared half an hour after taking off from Narita Airport in Tokyo. On board were 153 drawings by Brazilian-Japanese artist Manabu Mabe, valued at $1.2 million. The plane, the drawings and six crew members disappeared without a trace. Robbery or technical malfunction? No one knows.
SourcePhoto 7The plane vanished en route from a Pacific atoll to Los Angeles
In 1964, a plane with nine passengers on board disappeared en route from Wake Island to Los Angeles. When he was 500 miles northeast of Los Angeles, the pilot reported engine problems. Searchers found an oil slick on the surface of the water, and some even claimed to have seen the plane's tail plunge into the ocean, but no trace of the plane or passengers was ever found.
It was the usual planned passenger flight on the route Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) - Beijing (PRC). On March 8, 2014, a Boeing jet skidded off the runway and disappeared into the sky above South China Sea 40 minutes after takeoff.
There were 239 people on board. In January 2015, everyone was declared dead as a result of an "accident". The circumstances of the crash remain unclear. The aircraft gained altitude, took the flight level set by the dispatcher, and then followed the route. No reports of problems on board, suspicious passengers or other irregularities. All systems worked normally, there were no reasons for alarms.
At 1 am, the flight was supposed to enter Vietnamese airspace. The controller instructed the Boeing to switch to a new frequency, the pilot acknowledged the information, and the operator said goodbye to him: "Good night, Malaysian three seven zero."
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A few minutes later, the devices on the plane turned off, which transmit information about the location of the aircraft. The Boeing disappeared from the locators of dispatch services. Being at an altitude of more than 10 thousand meters, the plane disappeared.
The situation "distress" was announced 6.5 hours after the loss of the aircraft. One of the reasons for the delay was information from the airline, which continued to reassure everyone that the plane was moving according to plan. 1.5 years after the disappearance of the aircraft, at distances of more than 4,000 kilometers from the alleged place of its fall into the ocean, 6 fragments of the hull were accidentally discovered.
Paintings by Manabu Mabe and pilot of two disasters: Boeing 707
The 1969 Boeing 707 incident is considered one of the most mysterious in the history of world aviation. On board a cargo airliner flying from Tokyo to Los Angeles, there were only 6 people and 153 paintings by the famous Japanese-Brazilian artist Manabu Mabe, their cost was $1,240,000.
The plane's commander was Gilbert Araujo da Silva, known as one of the few survivors of the plane crash near Paris. The Tokyo sky that day was cloudy, but the crew decided to start. After 20 minutes, a message came from the board that the flight was proceeding normally. The next time the plane was supposed to get in touch after forty minutes, but after the specified time, the plane did not get in touch. They tried to contact him, but to no avail.
Despite extensive searches, no trace of the aircraft or signs of its crash could be found. One of the versions says that the plane was attacked by art collectors, but none of the artist's works have surfaced in the information space even after so many years.
This is one of the few incidents in which one person was involved in two plane crashes.
"This is not a plane": "abduction" of Frederic Valentich
Pilot Frederik Valentich was only 19 years old. Born in Melbourne, he was always interested in aviation and believed in UFOs. His abilities as a pilot were repeatedly questioned: he twice failed all five pilot's license exams and repeatedly got into dangerous situations.
The latter cost him his life.
The case was really strange, and incomprehensible details around it are more than enough. To begin with, Valentich was going to fly to King Island to pick up a load of lobsters and passengers there and return with them to Murrabin. After the disappearance, it turned out that there was no cargo or passengers on the island.
Valentich had to fly 235 kilometers from Murrabin Airport. The weather was fine, all the equipment was on board, and the plane could stay afloat even if the ship crashed for at least a few minutes.
But then something strange happened. During the flight, Valentich contacted the Office several times air traffic in Melbourne and reported on an unusual aircraft that followed him. Valentich could not determine either the type of aircraft or its speed, he assumed that it was a military ship. “I think he is playing some kind of game [with me],” Valentich told the dispatcher. “He flew over me two… three times at speeds I can’t determine.”
His last message read: “This strange plane hovered above me again. It hangs... and it's not a plane."
These words were followed by 17 seconds of noise, described as "metallic, grinding sounds", after which the connection was cut off. Neither Valentich himself nor his aircraft were ever found.
The disappearance of the "flying tiger": L-1049 over the Pacific Ocean
The plane crash of the L-1049H aircraft of the American airline Flying Tiger Lineruen is considered the largest disappearance of an aircraft by the number of people in the 20th century. There were 107 people on board, the flight was flying from Mariana Islands to Philippine.
During the flight, the pilot contacted the International Flight Center and, without explanation, requested an increase in cruising altitude. After some time, interference was heard on the air, as if someone was trying to get in touch, but the dispatcher could not make out a word. After that, the connection was lost.
On board the aircraft were life jackets and an emergency radio transmitter, as well as a flare gun with 25 rounds of ammunition. That is, if you had to make emergency landing on the water, emergency means would allow the evacuation of all people on board.
To search for the missing aircraft involved 1300 people, 48 aircraft and 8 surface ships. All efforts to find the aircraft failed. The board disappeared without a trace.
Commission from the Council civil aviation came to the conclusion that she could not find the cause of the incident.
Amelia Earhart's last flight
The first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, dreaming of world tour and child. Amelia went missing while flying over the Pacific Ocean near Howland Island.
Amelia was forty, she spent 16 years of her life in the air: she flew over the very crests of the waves, got into a storm, repeatedly flew over the Atlantic and performed feats that cost the lives of many experienced pilots, but luck did not spare her.
In 1936, Amelia was given a twin-engine Lockheed Electra monoplane for her birthday, a small aircraft with which Earhart decided to fulfill her old dream. She planned to fly around the world on the longest route, as close to the equator as possible. Amelia convinced the press and friends that this would be her last flight. And so it happened.
She said: "Soon records will no longer be the main engine of progress in the aviation industry, and the main person in aviation is no longer a dashing daredevil pilot, but a well-trained aeronautical engineer."
The first attempt to take off was unsuccessful - the landing gear could not withstand the weight of the aircraft, the tire burst. The plane miraculously did not explode. But that didn't stop Amelia.
In May 1937, together with navigator Fred Noonan, she took off from Lae, a town on the coast of New Guinea. The flight was long and very dangerous - the pilots had to find a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean after 18 hours of non-stop flight. The press and officials of the country were already waiting on Earhart Island. The plane was supposed to appear over Howland any minute ... But this never happened.
A search and rescue expedition was immediately organized, and it was the largest and most expensive in the history of the American Navy. In January 1939, Amelia and her navigator were declared dead.
In 1940, a skeleton was discovered on the uninhabited Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro. It was considered to belong to a man, but in 2016, scientists conducted an anthropological examination, and it showed that the remains could also belong to a woman - the same height and ethnicity as Amelia Earhart. They also found things that may have belonged to Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan: the remains of a flight jacket, a mirror, fragments of aluminum sheets and freckle cosmetic cream.
Do not think that stories about missing planes are just myths and fiction. Such cases regularly occur and still do, 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 today, and some of them are never found.
Strange Disappearances
Missing aircraft cases are some of the most enigmatic 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 aircraft, just before its disappearance, transmitted a very strange message to the ground, the meaning of which is still not clear.
For half a century, nothing was known about his fate. It was only in the late 1990s that search parties managed to find it. The wreckage of the plane ended up in the Argentine Andes, near the peak of Tupungato. 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 the disappeared aircraft began to appear from time to time in those 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 liner did not stay long on runway. The pilot of the plane spoke to the controllers, was surprised at the date they gave him, and then lifted the aircraft with passengers 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 airliner that disappeared in 2014. Until now, nothing is known about the fate of 239 passengers and crew members.
Today, among the versions are also considered: capture by terrorists, technical malfunction, new theories regularly appear until now.
It is authentically known that the plane disappeared from the radar about an hour after it left Kuala Lumpur. He flew to China, but five hours after takeoff he was declared missing. IN last time on the locators, he was marked over the territory South Vietnam. It soon became clear that for unknown reasons, 4 hours after departure, he was hundreds of kilometers from the intended route. At the same time, he significantly changed the height to a lower one. All this indicated that, most likely, it was impossible to talk about the failure of the equipment, and the deviation from the route was deliberate.
Later it was reported that the plane crashed in the southern Indian Ocean off the coast of Australia. But so far, the wreckage has not been officially identified.
Theft in Uganda
Another case of a missing plane occurred in Uganda. Boeing was hijacked international airport in the country's capital, Luanda. And it happened under very strange circumstances.
On board at that time were flight engineer Padilla and private pilot Mutantu. None of them knew how to fly such an aircraft. However, when they boarded the aircraft, the aircraft began to move erratically along the runway. It then took off with its lights off. No one else saw either the plane or the two men.
Incident in Vietnam
Quite often, mysterious disappearances of aircraft occur during hostilities. Many associate this with the intrigues of enemy aircraft, but some details cannot be explained by anything.
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, 107 passengers and crew members were on board.
In Guam, the plane was refueled and flew to the Philippines, but never reached its destination. He disappeared over the Pacific Ocean, but neither the bodies nor the wreckage were ever found.
An hour after the plane last made contact, an explosion was seen in the sky. The message came from an American tanker. So far, it has not been possible to find out whether it was a sabotage, an enemy missile or a technical malfunction.
Last flight of Glenn Miller
The question of where the planes disappear has long been of concern to many who are interested in this topic. In no less mysterious way, passengers who flew on them often disappear. And they sometimes become world famous people.
most famous and misterious story this kind of thing happened to the 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 aviation legends, only the best at that time served in the British Air Force. Therefore, there was no reason to doubt their professionalism. However, the plane in which Miller flew never arrived at his destination.
Jazzman, who joined the army at 38, was already too old to be drafted, but at the same time he was at the peak of his popularity. Therefore, he was willingly accepted as a musician who supported the spirit of the fighters, 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 the German Air Force shot him down, others that the plane did land in Paris, and Miller became a victim of Parisian traitors. One German journalist already in the 90s 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 the navigator of the British Air Force Fred Shaw. According to him, Miller's death was a fatal accident. Most likely, his plane fell under the dropped bombs of British aircraft after an unsuccessful raid on Germany.
Trip around the world
Traveling around the world is always dangerous and risky. This is confirmed by the story of the first woman 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. Communication with them was lost in the area of Howland Island, located above the Pacific Ocean. Their search yielded no results. According to the official version given by the US government, they ran out of fuel. But there are other opinions as well.
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 alive and well to the United States and changed her name.
At the same time, there is credible evidence that indicates that the Earhart aircraft made an emergency landing on desert island in the Pacific Ocean. There they were isolated. A special international group for the restoration of historic aircraft 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 just the case of the missing plane, which was found many years later.
The investigation has not yet been completed.
Bermuda Triangle
A bunch of mysterious stories associated with the mysterious Bermuda Triangle. In 1945, over this place, which many consider paranormal, an entire squadron of American bombers disappeared at once.
They flew from the air base to learn how to navigate over water. As a result, the planes in the Bermuda Triangle disappeared, and with them 14 men who were on board at that time.
Events developed rapidly. Already two hours after departure from the base, the squadron commander transmitted information that the compasses had failed, and they were not able to accurately determine their location. Such malfunctions affected all aircraft. Attempts to get out of this situation continued for two hours. After that, the squadron commander gave the order to all crew members to jump out of their planes, because they were running out of fuel.
The plane that went looking for them also disappeared. There were 13 other people on board. The tanker, located off the coast of Florida, transmitted a message about the explosion, which was noticeable after 20 minutes, as the rescue plane went to the rescue.
In the next few days, the square in which the aircraft disappeared was examined up and down, but no trace of the missing aircraft could be found.
Lost Art
In 1979, misfortune befell a Brazilian plane carrying 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 Manubu Mabe. What happened to the plane remains unclear. Consider even the version of the air robbery.
Rain and frost
Heavy rain and frost are called the reasons for the loss of another liner. In 1951 the plane Canadian airline transported American soldiers and officers from Vancouver to Tokyo. He disappeared without a trace somewhere in the state of Alaska.
On the way, the plane found itself in bad weather conditions. freezing cold and heavy rain, very low visibility - no more than 150 meters. This data was the last that the pilots managed to transmit to air traffic controllers on the ground. After that, they no longer contacted.
Missing were six crew members, all Canadians, and 31 passengers. Among them were both military and US civilian government employees.
Engine problems
Technical malfunctions are often reported shortly before the loss of aircraft, but these versions are not always confirmed. In 1964, a DC-4 disappeared off Wake Island in the central Pacific Ocean.
The last time the pilot got in touch, he reported problems with the engine. At this time, he was 800 kilometers from Los Angeles, from where he flew. The search engines who went to the rescue found only a suspicious oil slick. There were no other traces of either the aircraft or the crew members.
As you can see, usually the disappearance of aircraft without a trace can be explained by technical malfunctions and poor weather conditions. But sometimes things happen that defy any reasonable explanation.
