Mystery Plane

Ladies and gentlemen, this is Captain speaking.

Welcome aboard Flight 914!Please fasten your seatbelts and observe the no smoking sign— we will take off in 5 minutes.When we’re at cruising altitude, refreshments will be served to you.Our flight will take 37 years.I wish you a pleasant trip.What would you do if you embarked on a vacation to another city and suddenly found yourself in another country altogether?I guess more adventurous types would even enjoy such a change of plans, but most of us would be confused.Anyway, I bet even the most reckless adventurers would raise an eyebrow if told they'd flown for half a century.

On July 2, 1955, Pan American Flight 914 traveled from New York to Miami, Florida.It was a fine sunny day, and 57 passengers on board the plane were looking forward to seeing Florida's warm beaches and palm trees.The plane took off without trouble, but 3 hours later, when it should've landed at the destination airport, it was nowhere to be seen.Radars of the control tower in Miami didn’t show any approaching aircraft, and no distress signals were received either.

When air traffic control contacted the New York tower, they got a perplexing reply: Flight 914 had just disappeared from the radar in mid-air.

Everything indicated that the plane was lost: apart from vanishing from the radars,air traffic control couldn’t get through to the pilots with the radio. The DC-4 simply vanished into thin air, leaving no trace of itself or the people on board. Investigations were started immediately.

The flight route took the plane over the Atlantic Ocean. It seemed that the only explanation for its disappearance was that it had crashed somewhere along the way.Rescue teams were deployed, the Coast Guard scanned the waters, but no luck.Not a single piece of the lost plane was found.Investigators could only shrug their shoulders in dismay: 61 people (passengers plus the crew) just blinked out of existence along with a huge flying machine.Despite the fact that the case was never solved, there was an official statement that

The plane crashed, taking everyone's lives.But despite numerous — and understandable — questions from grieving relatives, no one could say what really happened to Flight 914. An investigation was launched, but the cause of the crash remained a mystery. The families of the victims still search for answers, hoping that one day they will find out what happened.

Until 37 years later, at least…Change of scenery.It's September 9, 1992, and we’re in Caracas, Venezuela.It’s a normal day for Juan de la Corte, air traffic controller at Caracas airport.He turned up at work, made some coffee, and took his seat, overlooking the flights.

He was commenting on a flight in progress when something weird happened. Seemingly out of nowhere, an unexpected dot appeared on the radar. It was as if an aircraft popped up from nothing. This was as if it had been hiding from the radar and now decided to show up. Either way, it was strange to see it near a civil airport. De la Corte checked the readings several times, thinking it was a mistake.It wasn’t, though: the readings were correct, and soon he and his colleagues could see it with their own eyes.In less than 10 minutes, the culprit showed up in the field of vision.At first it looked to the air traffic control like an ordinary airplane, but as it got closer, they could discern that it was, in fact, very old: a DC-4 McDonnell Douglas passenger aircraft, still with propellers instead of modern turbines.

The planes were still in use, but had become obsolete and mostly replaced by more contemporary ones. But that wasn’t even the beginning of the weird.

The real confusion began when the mysterious aircraft pilot contacted the tower and asked in English, “Where are we?”

As the one in charge at the time, Juan de la Corte replied they were closing in on the Caracas airport. He asked where the flight was headed.

There was a pause on the other side, and then the pilot answered, “We are Pan Am Flight 914 heading from New York to Miami, Florida, with a crew of four and 57 passengers on board." The pilot's response completely caught the air control officers off guard. What was a Pan Am flight doing 1,100 miles away from its destination?And how did it even get there? De la Corte asked a few more questions to the pilot, and what he heard next baffled him.

The pilot said his flight was scheduled to land at Miami airport at 9.55 am on July 2, 1955.Now it was time for the tower to silence.Before asking anything else, air control cleared the plane for landing.De la Corte didn’t know what to make of the pilot’s words — perhaps he thought he became insane, but that was irrelevant since there were people on board the mystery airplane.

He had to make sure they landed safely, and decided to ask questions when they did. Ground units were immediately called to assist the plane and passengers, and it landed without any trouble.

After a while, Juan finally asked something that bothered him.“Do you know today is May 21, 1992?" The pause that followed made him realize that it was a huge mistake to say that. As the ground crew approached the airplane, the pilot’s bewildered voice on the radio

He asked, "What are you talking about?" When de la Corte heard that, he knew he would have to order security guards to rush to the plane and escort the passengers and the crew. However, as they moved towards the aircraft, the pilot did something nobody expected. Juan heard the flight captain’s panicky voice saying, “No! Stay away! We're leaving now!” Without warning, the aircraft's engines started roaring and it began to taxi down the runway. The security guards were too late, and the plane took off into the sky, never to be seen again.

And indeed, he started the engines again and, without waiting for take-off clearance, taxied the plane to the runway. Juan tried to stop him over the radio, telling him he was creating a dangerous situation, but the pilot didn’t respond. He simply drove to the runway, accelerated, and took off.

For some time, the plane could be seen in the air, but soon it only appeared as a dot on the radar, and then… it vanished again.

No words could describe the shock Juan de la Corte and his colleagues at the air control tower were in. They’d just seen an old airplane appear out of nowhere. The pilot told them he was headed to Miami. Before they could do anything, it flew away again, only to disappear

It was as if it had been a collective hallucination.No trace of that plane has ever been found, and to this day, no one can explain what happened that morning in Caracas.Sniff sniff.Smell that.Smells fishy right? I must say, though, that there’s much dispute about this event's credibility.

Back in 1985, Weekly World News covered this story. Yes, I just said 1985 — seven years before the most popular version appeared. Later, the same newspaper retold the story twice more, only with other details, and with 1992 set as the date of a time-traveling aircraft appearing in the future. The picture of Juan de la Corte, the air traffic controller in Caracas, also differed from

The 1985 original.So the story was largely deemed false, and it became an urban legend.However, the legend still lives, and many sources retell it in their own way.Some even speculate as far as to say that the passengers of the plane eventually returned to their homes. Strangely, none of them looked a day older than 37 years prior, while everyone they knew grew old at a humanly pace.They say doctors examined the pilot, the crew, and the passengers but couldn’t find anything out of the ordinary — the people were healthy.

This part doesn’t look even remotely credible, though, because no solid evidence can be found about 61 people returning from a decades-long flight. I mean, wouldn't they have run out of snacks?

One thing that keeps popping up on the Internet and piqueing paranormal enthusiasts' interest is a small pocket calendar. This somehow was left on the Caracas airport runway when the notorious plane took off.

The thing about it is that it’s from 1955, and it allegedly remains the only artifact of that weird encounter. There are still people who claim the calendar is real, but there has never been any actual proof of its existence.

Ah well, who knows, maybe it’s just a tall tale, an urban legend indeed; or it could be a huge conspiracy to hide time travel possibilities.

I guess we’ll never know. Wink wink. And what do you think?

Was Flight 914 really lost in time for 37 years, or was it all just a hoax?

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