1.TWA Flight 800
Trans World Airlines Flight 800, a Boeing 747, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, resulting in the deaths of all 230 people on board.
While many speculated that terrorists were to blame, no evidence of a criminal act was discovered by the FBI following a 16-month investigation. Others suggested that a US Navy vessel blew up the plane with a missile strike, and that the US Government has since instigated a cover-up.
A report published on August 23, 2000, concluded that a short circuit was the most likely cause of the explosion.


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2. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
On October 13, 1972, a Uruguayan air force plane carrying 40 passengers and five crew members disappeared while crossing the Andes. Seventy-two days later, after everyone on board was presumed dead, 16 survivors emerged. The story of how starvation drove them to eat some of the dead passengers was made into the 1993 film "Alive".

[b]Air France Flight 447
In the early hours of June 1, 2009, Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris went missing, along with 216 passengers and 12 crew. The Airbus A330-200 disappeared mid-ocean, beyond radar coverage and in darkness. It took a shocked and bewildered Air France six hours to concede its loss and for several days no trace of it was found. Even when wreckage was discovered, the tragedy was no less perplexing. The aircraft had flown through a thunderstorm, but there was no distress signal, and the jet was state-of-the-art, a type that had never before been involved in a fatal accident. The aircraft’s black boxes were recovered nearly two years later, at the bottom of the ocean. A final report, published in July 2012, said the accident occurred due to obstruction of the “pitot tubes” due to ice crystals, which caused the auto-pilot to disengage, as well as human error. It later emerged that the pilot had only slept one hour the previous night after a romantic jaunt in Brazil with his girlfriend.

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4. BSAA Avro Lancastrian Star Dust

In August 1947, Star Dust, a British South American Airways airliner vanished as it flew between Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile, via Mendoza. No wreckage was discovered for over 50 years, provoking conspiracy theories about sabotage and abduction by aliens. A Rolls Royce engine and the remains of nine of the eleven victims were eventually found at the foot of a glacier in the Andes.

5. B-47 disappearance – 1956
B-47 Boeing aircraft disappearance is one of the most mysterious airplane disappearances in the aviation industry that is yet to be solved. The aircraft carrying 3 crew members took-off from MacDill Air Force Base, Florida in USA on 10th March, 1956 and disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea. The aircraft was heading towards Ben Guerir Air Base, Morocco. The aircraft successfully completed the first air refuelling and never made contact for the second air fuel tanker. The aircraft went missing with two capsules of nuclear weapon material. A nuclear detonation was not possible. An extensive search for the aircraft failed. Neither debris nor bodies were ever found. The crash site was never located.



6.EgyptAir Flight 990 – 1999

The EgyptAir Flight 990 started its final journey from Los Angeles International Airport to Cairo. The flight never reached its destination. The flight carrying 217 people including crew members crashed into the Atlantic Ocean 60 miles away from Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. The flight was reported to have suddenly plunged to 14,000 feet in 36 seconds. The exact reason of the flight crash is still unsolved and there exists various theories. The accident that killed all 217 people on-board is alleged to have been caused due to a pilot suicide attempt. The theory also suspects that this incident was criminal and intentional rather than being accidental. Since this accident took place in the international waters, the investigation responsibility came to Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority. Since ECAA lacked the resources to handle the search investigation, it asked the much larger and powerful National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to investigate.



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7.Boeing 727-223 – 2003


The Boeing 727-223 disappeared mysteriously without any trace on May 25, 2003. This sudden disappearance prompted FBI and CIA to conduct a worldwide search for the aircraft. This aircraft is alleged to have been stolen from Quatro de Fevereiro Airport, Angola. The flight had two crew members and their whereabouts are still unconfirmed. On the day of the incident, two men were believed to have got inside the plane. One was an American pilot and another was flight engineer Ben Charles Padilla. Suddenly the airplane started moving into runway without clearance. It took-off and started moving towards the Atlantic Ocean. The communication channels, transponder and lights were switched off when the flight took off. After the incident, neither the two men nor the airplane have ever been sighted.



8. “D B Cooper”
In 1971, an unidentified man travelling under the name of “Dan Cooper” managed to hijack a Boeing 727, extort a $200,000 ransom, and leap from the rear exit on the aircraft (with a parachute), never to be seen again. No conclusive evidence has emerged confirming his true identity or subsequent whereabouts, but FBI investigatiors claimed he would not have survived the jump.

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9.The Bermuda Triangle
The roughly triangular area bounded by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico is where dozens of aircraft and ships are said to have vanished in unusual circumstances, with the disappearances attributed to paranormal or extraterrestrial activity .
Notable incidents include the disappearance of Flight 19, a US Navy bomber, on December 5, 1945, as well as the aircraft sent to search for it; that of a Douglas DC-3 aircraft with 32 people on board in 1948; and a mid-air collision between two US Air Force planes in 1963

10.Malaysia Airlines MH370 – 2014



The Malaysian Airlines MH370 have perplexed researchers and scientists all over the world after its mysterious disappearance with 239 people and sudden disconnection from all radars. The ungrateful event occurred on March 8, 2014. The fate of the plane is still unsolved and has neither been confirmed nor found even after spending billions of dollars on multi-country search operations. This was confirmed to be most expensive search operation in aviation history ever conducted that spanned for more than 4,600,000 square kilometers and even the sea floors were scanned by the Australian military and navy. Multiple locations on the Indian Ocean were searched as the satellite information showed that the aircraft probably took deviations towards the Southern Indian Ocean. Many satellite images were taken which showed images of probable debris but none were confirmed after searching those areas. The rough sea, deep oceans and rough climate at those locations made the search operations difficult. The search operation was performed for several days by 15 nations. After almost a year on July 29, 2015 marine debris were found Reunion Island that was probably from the plane MH370. What caused the plane to deviate from the original path? Why didn’t the airplane send distress signals? What caused the plane to disappear from radars? What happened to the plane? These are some of the questions that surround one of the biggest aviation mysteries in the world.


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