Most mysterious disappearance of planes

The shocking disappearance of aircraft flying from Malaysia Airlines MH370, has attracted the attention of millions of people from around the world. The search for the aircraft and the passengers are still ongoing. What happened to the 293 passengers and crew, after the aircraft took off from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia in Beijing March 8, 2014?
To this no one can give an answer. The plane disappeared from radar about an hour after departure, is 220 km off the coast of Malaysia. The shocking disappearance of aircraft flying from Malaysia Airlines MH370, has attracted the attention of millions of people from around the world. The search for the aircraft and the passengers are still ongoing. What happened to the 293 passengers and crew, after the aircraft took off from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia in Beijing March 8, 2014?
To this no one can give an answer. The plane disappeared from radar about an hour after departure, is 220 km from the coast of Malaysia.





Amelia Earhart
One of the most famous incidents in the history of aviation is the disappearance of the American female pilot Amelia Earhart. Amelia disappeared in his twin-engine monoplane "Electra" near Howland Island in the Pacific in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
Earhart became known as the first woman who flew over the Atlantic Ocean itself. Theories concerning its fate still excite researchers. Some say that it is simply dropped into the ocean, the other that it took, and still others that it changed name and is still alive, the fourth, that she was abducted by aliens.
Traces of its aircraft was never found, despite numerous attempts, and Amelia Earhart officially declared dead in 1939.



Bermuda Triangle
A number of disappearances has been associated with the so-called "Bermuda Triangle" - a vast area of ​​the ocean between Florida, Puerto Rico and Bermuda.
December 5, 1945 five planes disappeared without a trace, with which began the legend of the Bermuda Triangle. Training Mission-five torpedo bombers led by an experienced instructor flew from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. Half an hour after the start of the mission, the pilots reported that they lost direction and could not find reference points. In radio communications instructor Taylor said that both his compass out of order. The weather conditions worsened, they could not find the beach and tried to land on the water. Even more strange was the fact that one of the planes, sent in search of the lost training mission, also disappeared.
Two passenger planes have disappeared in that area in 1948 and 1949 and more than 51 people missing.



Star Dust and mysterious Morse code
August 2, 1947 the plane BSAA Star Dust, off from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile disappeared, leaving several questions unanswered. The aircraft, owned by British South American Airways (BSAA), heading to the mountains of the Andes. He did not get to the destination, but the radio operator managed to send the last cryptic message using Morse code «STENDEC», then disappeared.
There have been several theories about what happened to the plane and the value of the last message, including the attack of aliens, sabotage and deliberate explosion of the aircraft for the destruction of diplomatic documents. Most likely, the plane crashed into a nearly vertical wall of snow that caused the avalanche debris blockages.
Aircraft Star Dust was found only after 50 years when the two Argentinean climber found fragments and pieces of clothing of the engine.



Mystery of Flight 191
This puzzle refers not to one but to a series of incidents that occurred more than 40 years with the aircraft with this number.
One of the worst air crashes in the history of American aviation occurred during the crash Flight 191 American Airlines, which crashed a few minutes after takeoff in Chicago, killing 258 passengers and 13 crew members. Another accident occurred with Flight 191 experimental aircraft X-15 flight 191, which crashed in 1967, killing the pilot and aircraft JetBlue Airways Flight 191 in 2012, when the commander there was panic, and tried to restrain the passengers.
Some airlines even superstitious decided to abandon the flight number 191.



Miracle in the Andes: a plane crash in the Andes in 1972
Uruguayan Air charter plane with 45 passengers and crew members, including the rugby team from Montevideo, crashed in the Andes, October 13, 1972. Of the 45 people on the plane, 12 died. The authorities did not know about surviving for 72 days. Meanwhile, another 6 passengers were killed in an avalanche, which covered the wreckage of the plane, where they took refuge. The remaining 16 passengers survived only by resorting to cannibalism. They found more than two months after the disappearance of the aircraft.
According to the story for the film "Alive" in 1993.



Source: p-i-f.livejournal.com

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