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A Missing Plane From 1955 Landed After 37 Years
On September 9th, 1992 a Pan Am flight, designated 914, departed from New York City to Florida. Shortly after takeoff, the plane disappeared without any warning or indication of distress, and has never been found. Immediately following the disappearance, large-scale search operations were launched in an attempt to find the aircraft, but communication with the plane was later lost. 37 years later, on September 22nd, 1992, a carachuan airport in Venezuela received a distress signal from an unidentified aircraft approaching their tower. The crew of the plane was immediately suspicious because there were no scheduled flights that time and the plane was landing - something not typically seen. Upon landing, the pilot contacted the airport and asked how they were doing. The dispatcher replied that they didn't know what to do next: it was clearly an old Pan Am plane with propellers instead of turbines. After hearing this, the panicked pilot took off towards South America - but it was too late. The crew of 914 died when their airplane crashed into the ocean just twelve miles away from the airport it had been intending to reach.The text is accompanied by a video that claims Pan Am Flight 914 took off from New York in 1955, slipped from radar and then vanished, until its unexplained return 37 years later when it landed in Miami, Florida.The story originated in an article published in May 1985 in the Weekly World News, an American print-based tabloid that was in circulation between 1979 and 2007. It relaunched online in 2009.However, the story of Pan Am Flight 914, much like other tales published by The Weekly World News, is bogus.Snopes previously debunked the story in 2019, the same year that a YouTube page called “Bright Side” breathed new life into the myth when it published a viral video that has been viewed more than 19.2 million times.Even the video itself casts doubt, with the narrator noting after seven minutes of rehashing the claim that “the story just seems to be an elaborate fabrication”.A reverse image search shows that the picture of the plane used by the Weekly World News is actually a stock photograph on Alamy of a DC-4 sporting the livery of rival airline TWA in about 1935. And not only are there no credible news reports to support the claim, but there is also no mention of the flight in the US department of transport’s records of investigations into aircraft accidents from 1934 to 1965.Is it fact or fiction? This in-depth investigation delves into the murky depths of this legend, separating truth from rumor and exploring the scientific, historical, and cultural implications of such an extraordinary event.The disappearance of Pan Am Flight 914 in 1955 spawned widespread theories and conjectures when no wreckage was ever found. With 103 passengers vanishing mid-flight between New York and Miami, the shocking lack of clues ignited public interest.Different opinions on different sites.Pan Am Flight 914 is a hoax which claims that a Douglas DC-4 disappeared after takeoff in 1955 and only landed again three decades later. The story has remained popular on the internet, featured on channels like Bright Side.(These few sentences above is what wiki said).Somones opinion on Quora was this:no, this is fake. because there is no possible way to fly airplane till 37 years. it could be possible using time travel. time travel is only possible if an object goes faster than speed of light. but that airplane could generate thrust lower than jets. so, this way its not possible. and if this was real, the air crash investigators would have been informed about this. you can also check on wikipedia that there is no missing plane in 1955. this fake news was published just to earn money.
By Renu Yadav2 years ago in History