9 Mysterious Flights Disappearances

Some of these flight disappearances have been discussed but no trace of these flights has been found to know what exactly happened to them and where these flights disappeared even after hundreds of search attempts for any survivors.

Mysterious Flight Disappearances In The World

1. Malaysia Airlines MH370

The carrier had 239 passengers on board and the last communication was 38 minutes after take off, when the plane was on the South China Sea, after which it disappeared from the radar, never to be found again. 

The rescue operation of this mysterious plane went on for months but all the missions failed because there was no trace of anything, making MH370 one of the most mysterious flight disappearances in the world.

There is a T.V. series on Netflix featuring the story of MH370, however, movies mould scenes accordingly to keep the audiences hooked, so don’t believe everything you see in this TV Series.

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2. Amelia Earheart

However, Amelia met a tragic and mysterious end, when she was on a trip to fly around the world, her plane twin-engine Lockheed Electra disappeared from the radar near the International Date Line in the Central Pacific Ocean. 

There have been a lot of speculations and discussions regarding one of these mysterious flights that disappeared, specifically the one in which Amelia was flying. Some people are of the view that she must have been stranded on an island, while some scholars say that her plane met a tragic end, but nothing can be said with certainty.

3. Flying Tiger Flight 739

One hour after the last communication with the plane, the members of the Standard Oil tanker reported a luminous explosion in the sky, which they linked to the Flying Tiger Plane.

Since there were no distress calls reported by the air traffic control, it is difficult to pin down the exact reason for what went wrong and exactly when it went wrong. 

An exclusive search was made by 1300 people, 48 aircraft, and 8 surface vessels who searched rigorously for 144,000 square miles, all of which proved to be unsuccessful, making it one of the most mysterious flights in the world.

4. Indian Air Force Plane Crash

The aircraft was flying from Tambaram Air Force station to Port Blair, however, it never reached its final destination.

The search and rescue operations that took place for this mysterious plane became the largest search operation in history, which involved surface vessels, submarines and several aircraft, sadly no traces were found.

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5. Lady Be Good

An extensive search was done but no trace was found, however, when the crew of an oil survey exploration was taking aerial photographs, the plane was found in the Libyan desert. In 1960, the corpses of the crew members were found, and among their things, there was a diary of a pilot which stated how there were eight survivors after the crash. These survivors walked some 85 miles out of which 5 gave up and 3 of them continued walking till they died. It is one of the mysterious and one of the oldest mysterious flights in the world.

6. Vancouver Douglas DC-4

7. Flight 19 Torpedo Bombers

There was a search party of 13 men in a Marine flying boat, they too were never seen again, making it one of the spookiest aviation mysteries.

8. Stardust in 1947

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9. Uruguayan Airforce Flight 571

Several searches took place but it bore no results, however, 72 days later, 16 survivors emerged who were presumed dead. The story of how starvation led them to eat the flesh of their fellow passengers who died in the crash has been shown in the movies Alive and the Society of Snow.