Mysterious plane crashes. Unexplained mass mystical phenomena associated with disasters and tragedies (10 photos)

Perhaps the most mysterious case in the history of aviation happened to the American writer and aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart.

The history of aviation knows cases when the planes also did not give a distress signal, and after the disappearance they did not leave any traces and debris.

Here are just some of the most high-profile and mysterious plane crashes, which could not do without mysticism:

Amelia Earhart (1937)

The mystery of the last flight of Amelia Earhart, the first female pilot, is still unsolved. In 1937, while attempting to fly around the world in a twin-engine Model 10 Electra, Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan went missing in the central Pacific. According to one version, the plane simply ran out of fuel, according to another, Amelia Earhart and Frederick Noonan were captured by the Japanese, who were building their military bases on the islands located in this part of the Pacific Ocean.

Cessna aircraft (1972)

On October 16, 1972, Democratic Congressman Thomas Hale Boggs and politician Nick Begich boarded a twin-engine Cessna bound for Alaska's capital, Juneau. However, the plane was never destined to deliver passengers to their destination - it disappeared without a trace. Even the 39-day search, which was called "the largest in the history of Alaska", because. 70 aircraft were involved in them, they did not give any results.

Various theories have been put forward as to the cause of the plane crash. It was rumored that the plane was shot down by the Serbs because of Begich's Croatian roots. Another version pointed to the political background of Boggs, who was a member of the Warren Commission.

TWA Flight 800 (1996)

A Boeing 747 flying from New York to Rome exploded mid-air and crashed into Atlantic Ocean. All 230 passengers on board died. Experts from the National Transportation Safety Board determined that an explosion was the likely cause of the plane crash. fuel tank due to faulty electrical wiring.

However, conspiracy theorists believe that the cause of the explosion was a bomb planted on board the aircraft or a collision with a US Navy missile.

In a briefing last summer, the National Safety Board confirmed that neither the testimony, nor the debris found, nor the records from the flight recorders support the assumption of a collision between an aircraft and a missile.

EgyptAir Flight 990 (1999)

Boeing 767 aircraft regular flights between Los Angeles and Cairo, crashed and fell into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff. The disaster claimed the lives of 200 people. After a 2-year investigation, it was found that the plane crash was caused by the wrong actions of the crew commander.

All collected National Council evidence, including the aircraft's flight path and data from flight recorders, indicated that the commander and chief officer in the last minutes of their lives tried to take control of the aircraft into their own hands. The senior officer repeatedly repeated: "I rely on God." This version did not suit the Egyptian side, and she put forward her own - the cause of the disaster was a malfunction of the aircraft control system.

Air France flight 447 (2009)

This fatal aerial incident occurred in 2009 involving an Airbus A 330 flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. The plane with 228 passengers on board crashed into the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. As in the case of the missing Malaysian aircraft, the Air France pilots did not issue a distress signal. A full-scale search and rescue operation for five days did not produce any results. Then some fragments of the tail section of the aircraft were found.

The search for the plane that crashed to the bottom of the ocean dragged on for two years. And a year later, as a result of the investigation, it was found that ice crystals blocked the sensors. airspeed aircraft - this is what led to the tragedy.

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The aircraft is considered safe transport. However, air crashes are not uncommon. Each one is followed by an investigation. However, some plane crashes still no one can explain.

Squadron Avenger

The most famous of its mysteries occurred over the infamous Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945. The so-called Departure 19 was a training flight of five Avenger torpedo bombers led by experienced flight instructor Charles Taylor.

Avenger aircraft took off from Fort Lauderdale on December 5, 1945 at 14:10. was clear, the flight was normal. But already at 15:40 the squadron deviated from the course, the pilots stopped recognizing the area. According to radio communications, Taylor's compass was out of order, appearing to be confusing the Florida Keys with the Bahamas. The control center tried to redirect Taylor back to Fort Lauderdale, but Charles continued to lead them in a chaotic direction, deeper into the ocean: “I hear you very faintly. Now we are flying on a course of two hundred and seventy degrees.

Soon the controller lost contact with five aircraft and since then no one has seen or heard from them. The most interesting thing is that Taylor ordered: "All aircraft stay close ... if the coast does not appear, we will have to splash down ... When anyone has less than 10 gallons left, we all descend together." That is, the version that the lack of fuel is to blame for the crash of the planes disappears. More frighteningly, the rescue plane sent to rescue Taylor's team went missing that same night. Many believe that it exploded in flight, as the car simply disappeared from the radar.

Interestingly, Taylor had tried to cancel the flight the day before. He was denied. The inexplicable circumstances surrounding the disaster gave reason to prescribe the death of the squadron to paranormal properties.

"Star dust"

Another mysterious disappearance in the history of aviation happened over the Andes. A civilian Star Dast aircraft owned by British South American flew from Buenos Aires to Santiago in 1947, but suddenly disappeared somewhere in the mountains just a couple of minutes before landing.

In the last moments of the flight, the radio operator transmitted the cryptic message "STENDEC". More from the missing plane was not a rumor or a spirit. The wreckage, despite a long search, was also not found. Most notably, the Star Dust airliner was a converted Avro Lancastrian military transport aircraft and could climb to over 6 km and reach speeds of up to 500 km / h, overcoming mountain peaks should not have been a problem for him.

In 1998, a group of climbers accidentally stumbled upon a fragment of the engine cover with the inscription "OLLS-ROYCE". The search for the liner in the specified area resumed. The aircraft was soon discovered. The new official version was: Star Dast veered off course and crashed into cloud-covered mountains in poor visibility. However, the secret of the word "Stendec" remained unsolved.

"Flying Tiger"

In 1962, Flying Tiger Flight 739 was commissioned by the US Army to transport soldiers and supplies from California to Saigon, Vietnam. After refueling in Guam, the plane took off and soon literally disappeared over the Philippine Sea. The weather was clear and there were no reports of help, as was the case with the Malaysian Boeing.

Search activities, in which four types of military forces participated, were unsuccessful, all 107 people on the plane were declared dead. The wreckage of the "tiger" was never found. The missing facts were replaced by rumors and conjectures. Some eyewitnesses claimed to have seen a bright flash of light near the supposed location of the aircraft. In the context cold war and conflicts in Vietnam, versions of sabotage appeared. Another explanation was considered a malfunction of the engine, which allegedly lost power three days before the last flight.

Aborted takeoff

Sabotage is seen in death civil aircraft operating Trans World Airlines Flight 800 in 1996. The airliner exploded and crashed 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy Airport, taking the lives of 230 people with it.

The investigation of the disaster took 4 years, after which it was determined that a fault in the electrical wiring caused a spark that ignited the fuel. It would seem that everything is clear, but the eyewitnesses of the event, who gave their testimony to the FBI, unanimously claim that they saw a beam of light rise to the plane, after which a fireball appeared.

This evidence is believed by some to prove that the plane was shot down by a missile during a fleet exercise that was taking place at the same time near Long Island. There are also versions that the US intelligence agencies deliberately hid traces of explosives on the remains of the liner.

Air "Titanic"

Like the infamous , which was considered unsinkable, the Airbus A330 operating Air France Flight 447 on 1 June 2009 was to be one of the most safe aircraft throughout history. However, for inexplicable reasons, during the flight Rio de Janeiro - Paris, the liner fell into the Atlantic Ocean.

There were no signals for help, no one knew what had happened until the pilots got in touch with the control room at the appointed time. As a result of the disaster, 228 people died, and three days of mourning were declared in France.

The cause of the crash remained unclear. The investigation into the causes of the tragedy seemed impossible for a long time - the wreckage scattered for kilometers along the ocean floor. Only in 2011, a specially hired private company was able to collect all the remains.

The French fleet pulled out black boxes and hundreds of dead bodies from the bottom.
According to the records, the aircraft was lost due to a technical malfunction (frost on the pitot tubes), as a result of which the autopilot had to be turned off; and due to the subsequent inconsistency of the actions of the crew. One thing that remains unclear is how the three experienced pilots lost control in a standard turbulence situation, and why they kept the nose of the aircraft in an elevated position during the “stall”, although in such cases it is lowered down.

Let's start with a case that can even be called almost hilarious. Unfortunately, this cannot be said about many of the other stories on our list.

Company airliner british airways was heading from English Birmingham to Spanish Malaga, taking on board 87 passengers and crew. He did not manage to soar in peace for a long time. Already 13 minutes after takeoff, the glass of the cockpit was torn off by a stream of air, and the crew commander was literally sucked into the window opening. A man is stuck in the windshield, half leaning out of a flying jet!

Then something incredible happened. The crew members, who reacted in time, grabbed the captain by the legs, preventing him from falling overboard. It is clear that no one will survive in such conditions, but, firstly, this would not allow the liner to completely depressurize, and most importantly, if they released the pilot, the body could ram the vital elements of the aircraft at full speed. Then things would have turned out quite horribly. But everything was going so lousy, especially since the cockpit door was blown off and the pieces fell on the console.

The crew began to calm the passengers and request an emergency landing from the ground services. The plane landed at Southampton 25 minutes after the start of the flight. All this time, the flight attendant held his icy comrade.

Immediately after landing, it turned out that the captain had a pulse, and he was urgently hospitalized. And, as the song says, they brought him home, he turned out to be alive! The team not only landed the plane, but also saved everyone on board! The co-pilot, the stewardess and all their colleagues immediately became national heroes. Almost all of them returned back to civil aviation.

The cause of the incident turned out to be the gouging of a mechanic, who, when replacing glass, took bolts of the wrong size from the warehouse.

Boeing 737, April 28, 1988

Imagine a banal small-town flight Hilo - Honolulu with 89 relaxed passengers and six crew members (where without them!). At the 23rd minute of flight at a speed of 500 kilometers per hour, a colossal piece of skin passenger cabin tore off and carried away to the beautiful far away. Everyone who was in the liner found himself face to face with a riot of air flow and a temperature of minus 45 degrees. But this is Hawaii, the passengers are dressed in a tropical way!

The team was not at a loss and immediately began to descend for emergency landing. The most terrible thing was that the instruments showed: the chassis was also faulty! Fortunately, the airport controllers saw that the landing gear actually came out of its niche safely, and transmitted good news to the ship. Everyone survived, except for a single unfortunate stewardess, who was blown away by a stream of air.

Cause of the accident: metal fatigue and corrosion. Ride, they say, in a convertible ...

A310, March 23, 1994

One of the most terrible chapters in the history of Russian civil aviation. Aeroflot operated flight number SU593 from Moscow to Hong Kong. After four hours of flight, the plane disappeared from radar over Mezhdurechensk, that is, in the Kemerovo region.

Air crashes are always a nightmare, but when the reasons for this were revealed, even the hairs of the world-wise forensic experts and aviation experts stood on end. The liner was in perfect order. Weather conditions too. Just in the midst of the flight, the pilots let their children and friends into the cockpit, and not only let them in, but also let them steer. 39-year-old pilot Yaroslav Kudrinsky, violating all possible instructions and simply the requirements of common sense, first put his daughter at the helm, and then his son.

The relaxed crew was fully confident that the plane was controlled by an autopilot, but the automatics turned off due to too sharp play with the helm of fifteen-year-old Eldar, the son of Kudrinsky. Moreover, it took too long for the small brains of the pilots to understand what was happening an emergency situation. Further, trying to fix it, they panicked and behaved as irrationally as possible. Tumbling in the air (imagine what it's like for unbelted passengers!), The liner crashed to the ground. All 63 passengers and 12 crew members died.

The subsequent investigation showed that if the pilots had not panicked, but had let the liner's automation work according to the prescribed algorithm, the plane would have leveled itself and calmly continued the flight!

There is a phenomenon in our world worse than driving minibuses.

Boeing 747, August 12, 1985

The largest single-aircraft crash in terms of the number of victims occurred, oddly enough, in a country whose workers are famous for their meticulousness, pedantry and professionalism - in Japan. And it's an incredibly sad story.

A JAL Boeing 747 was making a short domestic flight JAL from Tokyo to Osaka city. The flight there is only 500 kilometers, that is, less than an hour, but this is an incredibly popular route during the holidays, which is why the Boeing 747. 12 minutes after the liner left the airport, almost all key flight control and stabilization systems failed. Even duplicates! The pilots could not understand what was happening, they kept the plane in the air with superhuman skill, using only maneuvering engines and flaps. The liner constantly tossed, dropped and shook. 32 minutes of such a flight seemed to passengers worse than hell. If the pilots knew what the problem was, they would have become even worse: the Boeing's tail stabilizer was completely torn off, the plane was doomed. It is enough to look at a photo taken from the ground so that even a layman who is far from aviation understands this.

The plane crashed into a mountain 112 kilometers from Tokyo, some of the passengers miraculously survived, but rescue operations were organized truly ugly, help came late, and only four managed to be saved. A total of 520 people died.

The cause of the disaster was called the careless repair of the tail section by ground services with a deviation from the instructions.

A330, August 24, 2001

Now about the good. Record-breaking planning of an airliner with idle engines was demonstrated during this incident.

An Airbus A330-243 was heading from Toronto to Lisbon with three hundred people on board ( airline Air Transat), at the sixth hour of the flight, the crew suddenly encountered a fantastic fact: the Atlantic Ocean is below them, and they have not an ounce of fuel!

Everything that followed would have been considered an invention of Hollywood screenwriters if it were not true. One of the pilots remembered that 320 kilometers away from them, a military air base had spread its hangars on Azores where they turned. For 217 kilometers to the target, one of the engines had to be turned off. A few minutes later - the second. Unfortunately, there were no other engines, as well as sources of fuel, in this aircraft.

By the way, so that when the engines are inactive, instruments and radio communications do not turn off, the aircraft are provided with an ingenious emergency power supply system: something like a dynamo-weather vane, which is released from the body and spins under the pressure of the oncoming air flow.

Everyone was saved by the phenomenally rich experience, training and ingenuity of the crew commander. On the fly, he was able to calculate with the highest accuracy the gliding coefficients of an aircraft without thrust, in order not only to reach runway, but also so that its speed allows it to land safely. Moreover, no one, for obvious reasons, would have presented them with a second landing attempt.

Despite the calculations and maneuvers, the landing speed was still slightly higher than the recommended one, the plane slipped an extra kilometer behind the runway, and almost all of its tires burst. Of the 306 people, no one was hurt! The pilots were awarded and bear the title of record holders who kept a passenger aircraft in the air on a glider force for 120 kilometers!

The culprits of the accident are, as in most similar stories, ground technicians who messed up during the installation of the hydraulic system and provoked a leak.

Since ancient times, man has dreamed of conquering air space. Many in their dreams flew on fabulous flying carpets, or became riders of unusual birds with huge wings. And it took many centuries for mankind to fulfill its dream...

Leonardo da Vinci was the first to create the theory of flight: he depicted the design of an aircraft on paper. This miracle machine was powered by the muscular strength of a person. But the great Leonardo did not go beyond theoretical developments: people did not possess the necessary knowledge and skills for the actual construction of this aircraft.

Scientists different countries tried to build aircrafts. Russian scientists also made their contribution: M.V. Lomonosov, E.S. Fedorov, M.A. Rykachev and, especially, D.I. Mendeleev. They managed to create a deeply grounded theory to solve this problem. And the Russian inventor and outstanding designer A.F. Mozhaisky built the first Russian aircraft.

Centuries have passed. Today, flying by plane has become commonplace for each of us, like the use of any other mode of transport. But at the same time, flights have always been convenient, but enough dangerous view movement. After all, machines, as well as people, are not perfect. And any, even minor oversights in the operation of equipment can lead to the death of people. Each aviation accident is a warning and a lesson for the creators of aircraft. As a rule, it is very difficult to find the causes of air crashes - for objective and subjective reasons.

Thus, there is a strong opinion that the high accident rate of aircraft is associated with an unsuccessful design. And in this regard, the history of the An-10 aircraft is often recalled. Exploitation passenger airbus An-10 (developer - design department O.K.Antonov) began in 1971. Over the entire period of operation of this aircraft on Soviet airlines, more than 35 million passengers and about 1.2 million tons of various cargoes were transported. But on account of this aircraft and 12 accidents in which 370 people died. According to the pilots, the An-10 was operated by them in the most difficult conditions. They told the designers: “Machines of the same class, IL-18, land on good airfields and they are less likely to have any troubles, and if necessary, you can somehow help. And we drive your “top ten” through all sorts of holes and are always afraid: how will it end? After biggest plane crash with the An-10 near Kharkov, in 1973 it was decided to stop the operation of this aircraft.

But if, in this case, the expert identified a design error in the creation of the An-10, then many aircraft crashes remained mysterious and inexplicable from the point of view of the knowledge that we now possess.

On December 5, 1945, five US Air Force aircraft took off from Fort Lauterdale. The flight was led by Ch. Taylor. The flight passed without complications, the weather was clear, the team had an experienced instructor. Nothing foreshadowed trouble. But after 90 minutes of flight, the pilots fell into a state of disorientation - they did not recognize the area over which their path lay. The compasses are out of order. Mission control urged Taylor to return to base, but the flight director stubbornly continued flying farther out to sea. Soon contact with the aircraft was lost. And still no one knows anything about them. The rescue plane sent to the rescue also disappeared from the radar and finally disappeared. Interesting fact: Taylor tried very hard to get off the flight that day, but he was denied.

On December 31, 1999, an EgyptAir plane crashed into the water during a flight across the Atlantic Ocean. The accident was investigated by specialists from the US National Transportation Safety Administration and the Egyptians. Both commissions gave different conclusions on the reasons for the death of the liner. The Americans were sure that the co-pilot deliberately caused the plane to crash, since he had pronounced suicidal tendencies. The Egyptians believed that technical breakdowns were the cause of the crash. And although the cause of the tragedy remained unclear, there is a record of the pilots' conversations: one asked, “What is it? What's happened? Did you stop the engines?", to which the second replied: "I hope in God."

The Star Dust aircraft were passenger version military bomber Lancaster. In 1947, such an aircraft made regular flight from Buenos Aires to Santiago. He disappeared, flying over the Andes, when there were no more than two minutes left before landing. But the plane's radio operator, a moment before the disappearance, managed to transmit a very cryptic message - "STENDEC". Only 50 years later it was possible to discover the wreckage of this aircraft, frozen into a huge glacier. It was assumed that Star Dust veered off course and crashed into the mountains covered with clouds. But the discovery still did not reveal the secret of the word "STENDEC", which means that the mystery of the plane crash has not been solved.

For some reason, many people are afraid of the number 13. In some hotels there is no 13th floor, there is no number in the wardrobes with this number, etc. In aviation, the number 191 has become such an “unlucky” number. There was a whole series of crashes of flight 191. Many airlines no longer assign this number to flights.

One of the biggest crashes of Flight 191 is considered to be a flight operated by American Airlines. As a result, 273 passengers died.

In 2012, on JetBlue Airways Flight 191, the pilot started whispering loudly about terrorists, 9/11, and Jesus. The co-pilot had to take him out of the cockpit into the cabin, where the passengers tried to calm him down. Subsequently, the pilot was treated in a psychiatric hospital.

Since there is no acceptable explanation for the bad luck of flights with this number, one can only assume that this is a mere coincidence. Although numerologists are still trying to understand the "true essence" of this number.

During the years of military confrontation between the United States and Vietnam, an equally strange incident occurred with the Super Constellation L-1049 aircraft. His task was to transport ammunition and soldiers from California to Saigon. The plane disappeared without a trace while flying over the Philippine Sea. Many units of the US Army participated in the search, but no traces of the disaster were found. Due to the lack of any information about this flight, a lot of assumptions were made. However, eyewitnesses claim that they saw a bright flash of light in the area over which the plane was supposed to fly.

In 1996 there was major disaster with TWA Flight 800 - the plane crashed into the ground 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy Airport. As a result, 230 people died. And although the commission found that the cause of the disaster was a faulty electrical wiring, hundreds of eyewitnesses claim to have seen a bright beam of light approach the plane, and then a fireball appeared. Perhaps the answer lies in the fact that at that time military exercises were taking place nearby, and the plane could have been shot down by mistake by a missile. Most likely, the FBI knows the truth, because only the special services had full access to radar data, information from military bases and other sources that could help solve this difficult task.

Aviation accidents are tragedies that claim hundreds and hundreds of lives. The reasons are different: technical malfunctions, errors of pilots and dispatchers, malicious intent, etc. But, unfortunately, there are also cases when the cause of the disaster remains unknown, and this gives rise to fear of flying and distrust of the crews of the airliners, to the airfield technical services and, finally, to the aircraft designers.

By the way, the expert who found a technical flaw in the An-10 aircraft and, thanks to whose conclusion, this type of aircraft was decommissioned by passenger airlines, was a pariah among the Soviet aviation elite for a long time. But he did not regret his act - he believed that the saved human lives were much more expensive than his personal well-being.

1. 1937 Amelia Earhart- American journalist, pilot, feminist. Faded over Pacific Ocean along with his navigator Fred Noonan, making a round-the-world flight. Amelia did not find the island on which she had prepared a runway for an intermediate landing. Even though it was nearby. Her Lockheed plane is believed to have run out of fuel and crashed into the water. Before the crash, Amelia completed 80 percent of the route.

2. 1944 Glenn Miller- the legendary American jazzman, trombonist - disappeared during a flight from England to France. He had to prepare the performance of his orchestra in the liberated Paris. The plane disappeared somewhere over the English Channel. Wreckage and remains were not found. Experts suggest that Major Glenn Miller's small single-engine Norsman S-64 was shot down by mistake by the Allies.

3. 1945 Unit No. 19: Five US Air Force torpedo bombers disappeared without a trace in the area bermuda triangle. What marked the beginning of countless stories about mystical events in this anomalous zone. No trace of the bombers was found. The plane that was sent in search of them also disappeared.

4. 1947 Star Dust: An Avro Lancastrian transport aircraft belonging to British South American Airways went missing en route from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. Before disappearing, he sent a strange message that was never deciphered.

Star Dust, an Avro Lancastrian transport aircraft, crashed in the Andes with 6 passengers and 5 crew members.
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For more than 50 years, the fate of the flight remained unknown until the wreckage of the aircraft was found in 1998 by climbers on Mount Tupungato in the Argentine Andes. He seemed to have crashed into her at full speed.

5. 1962 Flying Tiger Line Flight 739: a Lockheed Super Constellation plane with 107 passengers on board was scheduled to land in the Philippines on its way to Vietnam. But he disappeared. The search yielded no results.

This is what the missing Lockheed Super Constellation aircraft looked like.
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6. 1944 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry- French pilot, writer and poet, author of The Little Prince, while performing a reconnaissance flight, disappeared over mediterranean sea. The wreckage of his Lockheed R-38 aircraft was not discovered until 2000. In 2008, the memoirs of a German pilot appeared, who assured that it was he who shot down Antoine on his Messerschmitt. But there were no witnesses to the clash, the Germans were not credited with the victory. And no holes were found on the wreckage of Lockheed.

7. 2003 Boeing 727-223 No. 844AA: the plane took off without permission from Luanda airport in Angola. Dispatchers tried to establish contact with him, but no one answered. The transpoder responding to radar signals was also silent.

Aircraft #844AA 14 years before its mysterious disappearance.
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The CIA and FBI searched the plane around the world, describing it as silver with blue, white, and red stripes on the board. By official version, a plane converted to carry diesel fuel, was hijacked by flight engineer Ben Charles Padilla. He disappeared at the same time as the plane. Where did he take it? And for what?

8. 2007 Steve Fossett famous American businessman and traveler balloons, airplanes, airships and sailboats - crashed on a single-engine aircraft while flying over the Nevada desert. Nothing was known about his fate for a year. Internet users joined the search, looking at images from satellites. But tourists found Fossett - in the rugged mountains of Minarets, about 9 kilometers west of the ski resort area Mammoth. Why the traveler crashed is unknown.

Steve Fossett became famous for making the first non-stop solo flight on hot-air balloon around the world.
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9. 2009 Air France Flight 447: An Airbus A330 went missing over the Atlantic en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. And his traces were searched for a long time and unsuccessfully. The main remains were found on great depth one year later. All 228 people on board were killed. The plane, for some mysterious reason, having gained a height of almost 12 thousand meters, crashed down.

It is believed that the crew made a mistake, not understanding the readings of the instruments that record speed and altitude.

10. 2014 Boeing 777-200: the liner, heading from the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappeared on March 8, while over South China Sea. No traces of the 239 passengers and crew have been found, and no debris has been found, although dozens of countries are involved in the search operation. Every day the situation only gets confused: the version of the catastrophe a week later was replaced by the abduction hypothesis. But there are more and more - contradictory - data about which way the liner could go. The range is from Afghanistan to Australia.

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