A Missing Plane Landed After 37 Years In Incredible Conditions

A Missing Plane Landed After 37 Years In Incredible Conditions

The discovery of the missing plane is a remarkable story that has captured the attention of many around the world. The plane was found in incredible condition, despite being missing for 37 years. The fact that it was found intact and in good condition is truly remarkable, and it has led many to wonder about the circumstances surrounding its disappearance.

The discovery of the plane has given hope to many who have lost loved ones in similar incidents, and it has also sparked a renewed interest in aviation safety. The investigation into the disappearance of the plane is ongoing, and many are hoping that it will lead to answers about what happened all those years ago.

Despite the incredible condition of the plane, there are still many unanswered questions. What caused the plane to go missing in the first place? Was there foul play involved? These are just some of the questions that investigators are working to answer.

For the families of those who were on board the missing plane, the discovery has brought a mix of emotions. While they are relieved to finally have some answers, they are also grieving the loss of their loved ones all over again. Many are hoping that the investigation will provide them with some closure and help them to move forward.

Overall, the discovery of the missing plane is a remarkable story that has touched the hearts of many around the world. It is a reminder of the importance of aviation safety and the need to continue to work towards preventing similar tragedies from happening in the future.

[Narrator] In July 1955, Pan Am Flight 914

left New York City Airport en route to Miami.

However, the flight never made it to sunny Florida.

Without sending out a distress signal,

or leaving behind even the smallest piece of wreckage,

the plane and its 57 passengers

seemingly vanished into thin air.

As the years passed without any sign of the missing plane,

most people assumed the mystery would never be solved.

But then, 37 years later, the impossible happened.

Grab your popcorn and stay tuned to find out

exactly what that impossible occurrence was,

alongside a whole host of other eerie, mysterious voyages.

One morning in 1992, at an airport in Caracas, Venezuela,

air traffic controllers were going about their business

when they noticed something very strange.

Even though their radars showed an empty sky,

they could clearly see a plane

hurtling in the direction of the runway.

As it got nearer, they noticed that this plane

was old-fashioned and propeller-driven,

a model that hadn't been used in years.

Air traffic controller, Juan de la Corte,

immediately made radio contact with the pilot

and asked him to identify the mystery plane.

The pilot replied that this was Flight 914,

ready to touch down in Miami.

When Juan told informed him

this was an airport in Venezuela,

the pilot was horrified.

He'd somehow traveled 1,200 miles

away from his destination.

And things were about to get even weirder.

When the plane landed,

witnesses could see passengers

pressed up against the windows,

wearing strangely old-fashioned clothing

and staring in confusion

at the modern aircrafts on the tarmac.

After a long silence, Juan's radio crackled.

In a hoarse voice, the pilot of the mystery plane

asked him to confirm the date.

Juan told him it was May 21st, 1992.

As he spoke, he could hear the pilot breathing fast,

clearly distressed.

Moments later, the pilot flung open the cockpit window

and began frantically waving away the ground crew,

screaming that he needed to leave.

As he waved his arms, something fluttered down

from the clipboard he clutched in one hand.

But before anyone could react, the plane was in motion.

The airport crew watched in shock,

as mere minutes after it had had happened,

the mystery aircraft sped off down the runway

before climbing away into the clouds.

Juan ran down to the tarmac and picked up the document

that had fallen from the pilot's clipboard.

To his shock, he saw that it was a calendar

dating from 1955.

In the aftermath, aviation officers were able to surmise

that this unexpected runway visitor

was indeed the mysterious Flight 914

that had disappeared back in the '50s.

But even after a thorough investigation,

they couldn't make any sense

of the plane's sudden reappearance.

And as for the plane itself, it was never seen again.

So, how can we explain the time-traveling plane?

The most popular theory among fans of this tantalizing tale

is that the plane accidentally entered a wormhole

through time and space, transporting it somewhere else

37 years into the future.

If you think that sounds crazy,

it's worth noting that the scientific theories

of scientists like Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking

mathematically support the idea

that wormholes could potentially exist.

But how?

Well, imagine space and time as a sheet of paper,

with a point marked at either end.

Usually, you'd only be able to travel through those points

by moving along the paper.

But if you fold the paper in half,

bringing the points together,

that's a much quicker way to travel between them.

This is how a wormhole theoretically works,

a spacetime-bending shortcut through the cosmos

that connects two distant moments points of space

and/or time together.

While no one's really sure how a wormhole

could come into existence,

nor has anyone ever actually observed one,

could this theory explain the mystery

of the time-traveling plane?

Before I reveal the truth,

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Now, let's find out the truth.

As it turns out, the real explanation

doesn't require complicated physics to work out.

That's because, unfortunately, the tale of Pan Am Flight 914

is actually a vintage piece of fake news,

first circulated by the Weekly World News in 1985.

This tabloid was notorious for inventing

mind-boggling stories in order to sell papers,

including the story of a baby born with a wooden leg,

and the tall tale of a man who sued himself

after he was hit by his own boomerang.

In fact, the story of Flight 914

made such a splash in the eighties

that the tabloid actually ran it twice more

in 1993 and in 1999.

It soon became an urban legend,

circulated online by conspiracy theorists

as evidence of time travel.

But, of course, I wouldn't bring you here

with the promise of genuine mystery and not deliver.

While the case of Flight 914 turned out to be a hoax,

that's not to say our world hasn't seen

its fair share of voyages

that took a turn toward the unexplainably bizarre.

Stay tuned to find out just how peculiar some real examples

of this type of thing are,

because sometimes, truth is even stranger than fiction.

Bizarre Bermuda.

Would you take a trip over the Bermuda Triangle?

Over the years, this portion of the North Atlantic Ocean

between Bermuda, Miami, and Puerto Rico

has seen a number of planes and ships

disappear in mysterious-seeming circumstances.

None of these disappearances are stranger

or more perplexing than the vanishing of Flight 19.

In December 1945, a squadron of five torpedo bombers

and their 14 crew took off from Fort Lauderdale in Florida,

ready to tackle a three-hour training exercise.

Not far into their journey,

Flight 19 began to run into problems.

The flight leader, Lieutenant Charles Taylor,

began to radio in distress messages,

claiming that the squadron had become lost

after Taylor's plane's compasses malfunctioned.

As dusk began to set in and weather conditions turned nasty,

the radio messages became increasingly confused,

until eventually, they stopped altogether.

As it became apparent, the squadron was in trouble.

Two planes were dispatched on a search and rescue mission,

heading for Flight 19's last known location,

a point over the Bermuda Triangle.

Only one rescue plane made it back.

The other plane, which was carrying 13 men,

disappeared from radars within 20 minutes of takeoff

and, along with the original Flight 19 crew,

was never seen again.

An extensive search found no wreckage

from any of the missing aircrafts,

and investigations were unable

to explain the mysterious disappearances.

To this day, the planes have never been recovered.

So, what is it with stuff like this

happening over the Bermuda Triangle?

Well, conspiracy theorists argue that the Triangle

could be a hunting ground for UFOs,

or the site of an all-consuming whirlpool.

There's even a theory that ancient technology

from the lost city of Atlantis

scrambles the navigation equipment of vehicles in the area.

On the other more rational hand,

in the case of Flight 19,

it's possible that the planes really did lose their way

after their leader's compasses malfunctioned,

leading them all to run out of gas and crash into the ocean.

After all, compasses in the 1940s

weren't invulnerable to errors,

especially considering the significant

electromagnetic fields that can build up

around planes in stormy weather.

Some also theorize that in the low visibility,

Taylor may have mistaken the Bahama islands

with the Florida Keys,

causing him to accidentally direct the flight

further out to sea rather than back towards land.

And as for the rescue mission,

the planes were Martin PBM Mariners,

which had a known tendency to build up

flammable fuel vapors.

A nearby tanker reported seeing flames near the spot

where the rescue plane vanished from radars,

suggesting that it may have exploded

due to these flammable vapor build-ups.

What's more, scientists have long disputed the idea

that the Bermuda Triangle is really

the mysterious vanishing vortex that it's cracked up to be.

Despite its reputation, actual accident statistics

suggest that disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle

don't happen more often than in any other comparable region

of the Atlantic Ocean.

But even with all that considered,

with no wreckage ever found,

the true fate of Flight 19 remains unconfirmed.

What do you think happened?

Let me know in the comments below.

Mystery Man.

Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts,

and get ready to hear about one of the most mystifying

unsolved cases in FBI history.

In November 1971, a man in his mid-40s

boarded a plane traveling from Portland, Oregon

to Seattle, Washington.

He gave his name as Dan Cooper, took his seat,

and ordered a bourbon and soda.

Shortly after takeoff, he informed the stewardess

that he had a bomb in his briefcase,

opening the case to reveal tangled red wires,

cylinders, and batteries to prove it.

He stated everyone would be safe as long as his demands

for four parachutes and $200,000 in cash were met.

The authorities were quickly notified,

and the FBI ensured the ransom money

and parachute were ready when the plane landed in Seattle.

Upon landing, Cooper allowed all 36 passengers

to walk free in exchange for the money and equipment.

He kept the flight crew on board, though,

and calmly told them to set a new course for Mexico City.

Once they were back in the air,

Cooper told the crew to wait in the cockpit.

He then walked to the back of the plane,

took off his tie, opened the rear door,

and parachuted away with his ransom money.

The plane went on to land safely at Reno Airport,

but Dan Cooper was never seen again.

For 49 years after that night,

the FBI maintained an open investigation

into the daring mid-air crime.

Their prime suspect was Richard Floyd McCoy,

who was arrested for a similar airplane robbery

a few weeks later.

But he was eventually eliminated from the investigation

as there was evidence

that he spent the day of the hijacking in Las Vegas.

Despite compiling a list of more than 800 suspects,

the FBI were unable to crack the case.

There's another bizarre twist to this tale.

In 1980, nine years after the crime took place,

a young boy discovered $6,000 in tattered notes

along the banks of the Columbia River in Vancouver.

The FBI soon confirmed that these notes

came from the ransom paid to Dan Cooper,

though investigators couldn't agree on whether the notes

had been deliberately buried

or drifted there from somewhere upstream.

With no official conclusion even to this day,

it seems we'll never know

what really happened to Dan Cooper.

Some officials share the opinion

that Cooper couldn't possibly have survived his daring jump.

But since no body was ever found,

many believe he got away scot-free.

Whatever happened, Dan Cooper's crime

remains the only unsolved act

of air piracy in aviation history.

Up, Up, And Away.

Hitching a ride like Dan Cooper is one thing,

but imagine trying to steal an entire plane

and hide it away somewhere.

That's exactly what two men attempted in 2003,

when they stole a Boeing 727 straight from the runway

of Quatro de Fevereiro Airport in Angola.

Amazingly, despite extensive investigations

by the FBI and CIA, it was never recovered.

So how did it happen?

Well, in May 2003, two airport employees

boarded the plane and began to taxi it along the runway.

Of the two, Ben Padilla was an American pilot,

while John Mutantu was a hired mechanic

from the Republic of Congo.

Both men had access to the plane

in order to carry out repairs,

but neither of them were certified to fly it.

The control tower team observed the plane

making its erratic way down the runway

and tried to make contact, but received no response.

Before anyone could do anything about it,

the plane took off into the sunset,

and hasn't been seen since.

So what happened to the plane?

Currently, it's all theoretical.

Padilla and Mutantu may have stolen it for personal gain,

hoping to sell parts,

or they may have stolen it on behalf of its owner

for insurance purposes.

The plane's owner, Maury Joseph,

had previously been charged

with falsifying financial statements

and defrauding investments,

leading many to suspect that he paid Padilla and Mutantu

to carry out the daring theft.

But it's equally unclear whether the plane even made it

to its unknown destination,

or whether it crash-landed in the ocean.

Neither the plane, its parts, nor a wreckage

have ever been recovered,

leaving this expert theft a truly head-scratching mystery.

The Lady Vanishes.

Whatever happened to Amelia Earhart?

She was a record-breaking pioneer,

a best-selling author and the first female aviator

to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

However, in July 1937,

Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan,

set off from New Guinea on one of the last legs

of her historic attempt to circumnavigate the globe.

Despite a promising start,

their plane never made it to its destination,

and given that she never reappeared,

Earhart was declared legally dead in 1939.

So, what actually happened?

Nobody knows for sure, but one popular explanation

is that Earhart made an emergency landing on or near

the deserted Gardner Island in the West Pacific Ocean.

Without a functioning plane,

she and Noonan may have been forced

to spend the rest of their days as castaways.

Various expeditions to the island

have found strange artifacts,

including a woman's shoe dating from the 1930s

and some improvised tools.

In 1940, British officials found a skeleton

on a remote part of the island,

and analysis suggests that it may have belonged

to a woman of European ancestry.

However, no plane or wreckage has been found

on or near the island,

casting some doubts on the castaway theory.

Others argue that Earhart was captured

and executed by Japanese soldiers after crash-landing

in the Japanese-controlled Marshall Islands,

while some even speculate that she faked her own death

and moved to New Jersey.

But given the lack of any substantial evidence

for those wilder ideas,

the idea that Earhart crashed into the sea

after radio failures and bad weather

is the most likely theory.

It's worth noting, though, that since 2002,

deep-sea exploration company Nautilus

has scanned nearly 2,000 square nautical miles using sonar

around the area Earhart may have crashed,

and has found no trace of wreckage.

Until that elusive plane is found,

it's likely that the fate of this iconic aviator

will remain an enigma.

Free Falling.

In 1972, one woman experienced an extreme amount

of both good and bad luck simultaneously

while flying over Czechoslovakia.

Vesna Vulovic was her name, and to this date,

she holds the Guinness World Record

for surviving the highest fall without a parachute.

The Serbian flight attendant fell a whopping 33,330 feet

after a briefcase bomb exploded

in the baggage compartment of her plane.

Not only did she live to tell the tale,

but she also made a full recovery from her injuries

and even asked for her old job as a flight attendant back.

Now that's commitment.

So what allowed her to survive?

Well, aside from a heaping portion of good luck,

Vesna was trapped behind a food cart

in the rear part of the aircraft when it exploded.

While most of the other passengers were sucked out

of the plane immediately after the explosion,

Vesna remained wedged in place.

The tail section of the plane then plummeted to earth

and landed on a wooded mountainside in Czechoslovakia,

where the trees and thick blanket of snow

cushioned its fall.

This slowed the rate of deceleration on impact,

slightly lessening the forces acting on Vesna's body.

What's more, doctors believe Vesna's history

of low blood pressure may have prevented

her heart from exploding on impact.

Think of how a fully-inflated balloon could easily pop

under a little added force,

whereas a half-inflated balloon has some room to compress.

Because Vesna's heart and arteries were under less pressure,

it reduced the chances

of her heart rupturing during the impact.

Pretty crazy, right?

Soon after the crash,

a nearby villager heard Vesna's cries for help,

and she was taken to a hospital.

She spent days in a coma, suffering from broken bones

and temporary paralysis from the waist down.

But miraculously, Vesna soon made a full recovery,

and became a national hero and celebrity,

although she never recovered her memories of the crash.

Perhaps that's for the best.

Secret stowaway.

In April 2014, 15-year-old Yahya Abdi

embarked on a truly bizarre journey

which stumped air travel officials and doctors alike.

He'd run away from his California home

in order to board a plane to Ethiopia,

where he hoped to visit his mother.

Without a ticket, the daring teen climbed over the fence

at San Jose Airport, chose a plane,

and clambered into the wheel well.

What happened next was terrifying.

The plane, which was bound for Hawaii, took off,

traveling for five and a half hours,

and ascending to an eye-watering height of 38,000 feet.

Abdi had to contend with extremely low oxygen levels,

below-freezing temperatures

and the eardrum-shattering boom of the engine.

He stayed conscious for long enough

to watch the plane climb over the clouds,

before passing out for long sections of the journey.

When the plane arrived in Hawaii,

onlookers were shocked to see a young man

stumble out of the wheel compartment

and weave his way across the tarmac.

His survival in those extreme conditions

left doctors dumbfounded.

One possible explanation is that Abdi's body

became so cold during the flight,

that his blood flow and metabolism

slowed down significantly,

reducing the amount of oxygen required in his cells.

His body likely began slowing

or stopping unnecessary functions, causing him to pass out,

but ultimately keeping him alive.

Now before you get any ideas,

stowing away on a plane is not a great way

to save money on your next holiday.

Experts agree that the odds of survival are tiny,

as the temperature at the heights Yahya traveled at

can drop to lower than -80 degrees Fahrenheit,

and that's assuming you're not crushed by the wheel

when it draws up into the plane.

All things considered, it's probably best to book your seat.

The Ghost Ship.

Not all cases of peculiar, mystifying journeys

take place in the sky.

Some of the most puzzling of all have occurred in the ocean.

The story of the Mary Celeste, for example,

has puzzled the world for over 100 years,

and it's guaranteed to shiver your timbers.

The brigantine ship left New York in November 1872,

with ten passengers on board.

Eight days later, it should have arrived in Genoa, Italy.

Instead, it was spotted floating east of the Azores,

a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean.

A party was sent to offer help to the Mary Celeste,

but when they reached the boat,

they realized something wasn't right.

The crew's personal belongings were untouched,

the cargo was intact,

and the ship was stocked with enough food and water

to last six months.

But not a soul was onboard.

Some speculate that the crew were gobbled up

by sea monsters, or thrown overboard by pirates.

But as the ship wasn't damaged, the cargo wasn't raided,

and there were no clear signs of a struggle,

these theories don't really hold water.

A more likely explanation

is that all or some of the passengers

deliberately abandoned ship, sailing away on the lifeboat.

But why would anyone abandon the Mary Celeste,

especially when it was fully stocked and seaworthy?

Some have suggested the crew staged a mutiny,

throwing the captain overboard

before sailing the lifeboat away into the horizon.

But it's also possible the crew were startled

by extreme weather.

In their panic, they may have boarded the lifeboat,

interceding to head for safety,

but sunk before reaching their destination,

while the main ship itself survived.

Supporting this theory is the fact

that one of the ship's pumps

was found disassembled on the deck,

and the cargo hold was awash with 3.5 feet of water.

It's possible that,

after taking on some water in harsh conditions,

the captain feared the ship was no longer seaworthy.

If he did so, he was sadly mistaken,

the ship was totally fit for purpose,

and went on to be used for several more years.

But with no sign of the crew,

nor any definitive evidence on board,

it seems hopes of finding the truth

has long drifted away on the waves.

What do you think happened to the ghost ship?

Let me know in the comments below.

Mystery Companions.

Soaring back into the skies now,

we find ourselves in the winter of 1944,

near the end of World War II.

Around this time, Allied pilots began reporting

strange glowing lights following their aircrafts.

The red, orange, and white lights

appeared to toy with the planes,

darting closer and then spinning away

through the air at high speed.

The sightings were so widespread,

that soldiers began to refer to them as foo fighters,

a name taken from a popular

cartoon character called Smokey Stover,

who used the nonsense word foo as a catchphrase.

But considering how common these sightings became,

they appeared to be anything but nonsense.

There are a few different theories

about the origin of these spooky lights.

Author Renato Vesco claims that the Germans

had developed a secret weapon called a fireball,

which flew in the air

and spun around like a Catherine wheel firework

in order to distract Allied pilots.

However, historians have pointed out

that there's almost no evidence to support this claim.

Some conspiracy theorists, meanwhile,

believe that the foo fighters could have been UFOs,

perhaps checking out

humanity's latest military technology in action.

Of course, whether or not you believe that theory

really depends on your stance

on whether aliens have visited Earth.

A more universally-palatable explanation, however,

involves a weather phenomenon known as St. Elmo's fire,

and is arguably just as fascinating.

This phenomenon causes fluorescent bursts of light

to appear around pointed objects during storms.

The fire is actually a form of luminous plasma,

which is generated when there's a strong electric field

in the air, often during thunderstorms.

It's often observed to erupt from the wings

or nose of a plane,

which could explain some sightings

of these strange, glowing foo fighters.

However, considering many of the reports

described the foo fighters

as floating orbs of red and orange,

these don't all fit St. Elmo's fire,

which looks more like purple lightning.

Some have pointed to ball lightning,

a reported phenomenon that hasn't yet

been definitively proven to exist by science,

where lightning reportedly

takes on a floating, spherical form.

This would certainly fit the bill,

but until we properly determine

whether ball lightning is a real phenomenon,

and learn how to study it,

it seems a satisfying explanation

will remain floating just out of reach.

For now, we'll just have to listen

to the band of the same name

if we want our fill of Foo Fighters.

What are your wildest theories

to explain some of these bizarre incidents?

Let me know in the commit section.