Mapping Every "Vanished" Plane Since 1948

Zerohedge ^ | 3/20/14 | Tyler Durden

[Kartographer]

Some 83 aircraft have been declared “missing” since 1948

[FredZarguna]

I are fluent in Twittese.

I am also frequently forced to communicate with twits myself.

[FredZarguna]

See #20 for a book written in 1972 at the height of Bermuda Triangle insanity, that pretty much demolishes the whole myth. It still comes back from time to time. Arrant nonsense.

[raccoonradio]

http://pittsburgh.about.com/od/transportation/a/b25_bomber.htm

>>On January 31, 1956, a Mitchell B-25 bomber, on a flight from Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada to Olmstead Air Force Base in Harrisburg, crashed in the Monongahela River (locally known as the “Mon”), just outside of Pittsburgh. The crew of 6 survived the crash, but two were later claimed by the icy waters of the Mon river.
What happened over the next two weeks fueled one of Pittsburgh’s greatest unsolved mysteries… What became of the B-25 bomber?

In the two weeks following the crash, a search for the plane was conducted, but no trace of the B-25 was ever found. Theories about the plane’s disappearance are plentiful, and are still discussed throughout Pittsburgh.

Some think the plane was carrying a secret cargo of nuclear weapons, nerve gas, Mafia money, or even Howard Hughes. Eyewitness accounts sporadically surface. The story I remember being told as a child was “Hundreds of soldiers descended to the crash site and closed the river. They guarded the banks of the river while barges came in and pulled the bomber to the surface. The plane was then offloaded to railroad cars, where it was taken to one of the local steel mills and melted down”. Variations on these stories include the plane being chopped up on shore and trucked away, threats to eyewitnesses on shore, even the story of a mysterious ‘7th man’ that was pulled from the river.

[logi_cal869]

Interesting, but worthless.

If it's missing the Ben Charles Padilla 727-223 (Tail # N844AA) flight out of Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport in Angola on May 25, 2003...

...then what else did Bloomberg overlook?

(also lost on that flight was John Mikel Mutantu)

[cripplecreek]

Lots of small planes and boats disappear in the great lakes.

[okie01]

If it's missing the Ben Charles Padilla 727-223 (Tail # N844AA) flight out of Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport in Angola on May 25, 2003...

...then what else did Bloomberg overlook?

The map is restricted to "planes capable of carrying 14 or more passengers". It doesn't appear any air cargo flights were included.

The Angolan 727 had been re-fitted as a cargo plane, to haul diesel fuel.

[FredZarguna]

Lots of small planes and boats disappear in the great lakes.

That was because of a black hole on Michigan Avenue. Somebody on CNN created the connection last night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeWeheK9uEA

[Yosemitest]

Gen. McInerney said Allama [ Iqbal International ] Airport was the same distance from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 point of departure, Kuala Lumpuras, its original destination airport, Beijing, China.

Gen. McInerney also said that if Pakistan didn't speak up soon, they would be complicit.

Now I ask you, if you heard another large jet land at an International Airport that had on average 4 other arrivals all around the same time, would you suspect anything out of the ordinary ?
I just want to inform you that arrivals make a lot less noise than departures.
Also, from an air traffic controller's point of view, there ARE PROCEDURES for clearing a "RADIO OUT" or "NORDO" aircraft to land, and once the aircraft is safely down, it's up to the Airfield Base Operations Officer and the Fire Chief as to how to handle it.
They would probably have to fuel to refuel the 777 with little or no extra coordination.

Israel, are you listening?

[logi_cal869]

The map is restricted to "planes capable of carrying 14 or more passengers".

Pardon, but it clearly states

The list includes planes capable of carrying more than 14 passengers and where no trace — bodies or debris — has ever been found.

I stand by my assertion about Bloomberg's lousy attention to detail.

And I repeat 'worthless': There are only 5 flights named with any information about the flight at all besides date lost, souls lost and flight origin/destination...horribly lazy on Bloomberg's part. Pathetic is more apt.

[cva66snipe]

We had an A-6 Intruder that was flying out to meet us, and never arrived. I couldn't remember the date, so I looked it up online:

Wasn't there some major issue going on with the A-6's about that time that went on several months? I know we lost several of them close into the ship usually on take off. I can't remember what it was doing it though I just remember there was a problem.

[JSteff]

Well it is obviously flawed. Sometime in the 70's or 70's a South African plane 747 dual use cargo passenger then down east of Madagascar and South of India. It went down in the Indian Ocean. Very similar to this one but they only had a cryptic message of minor smoke in the passenger section.

Took them a couple of weeks to find just a little wreckage floating in the Indian Ocean. Took them several months to find the location of the black boxes and could not get them for a couple of years IIRC. Then they wanted to use an ROV to see and recover them but the fiber optic cable was the longest ever made! They eventually did that.

That took several years to pull together and then the finally recovered only a minor amount of the plane. Boeing stopped production and sale of that model. (747 XXX Combi?)

Many think it was weapons that South Africa as shipping in because if the embargo. Many thought and still think it was weapons that started the cabin fire in the cargo section. However none can afford to dive that deep to recover any evidence. It is deeper than the Titanic!

[Star Traveler]

Israel, are you listening?

Israel said that this disappearance had Iran's fingerprints all over it. And they said they are taking measures now to prevent such a plane from getting through to them.

[Yosemitest]

My heart goes out to the families, also, and I just want logic and real analysis to prevail.

If our military or Israel's really knows where it's at, then I hope they bring it down in full fury onto the terrorists' heads.

Let Psalm 9:10-20 be executed upon the terrorists.

[Axenolith]

I had an old pilot tell me that all the pre jet plane disappearances are most likely a combination of aviation gasoline vapors and lightning.

[Taylor42]

I are fluent in Twittese.

Best comment in a long time... Well spoken.

[Rockpile]

Wasn’t there another C133 that disappeared on the same route back then?

I have seen the one at the Pima Air Museum, looks like a 130 on steroids.

[rlmorel]

Maybe, I don’t know. I worked on Corsairs, so I wasn’t that tuned in. We did lose another A-6 about a year before that.

The Intruder busted its hook off when it caught the wire during darkened ship exercises, and slowed down too much and the crew ejected.

I watched that plane lumber by me less than 50 feet away (I was on the bow) climb slowly out in front of the ship, its shape silhouetted against the stars, then slowly fall tail first, twisting and inverting to disappear in a circle of white foam a few hundred yards in front of the ship. I watched in horror saying over and over to myself “Those guys better eject...come on...get out...eject...EJECT!” and they never did.

I was dumbstruck, then the white lights on the ship came on as the air boss said over the 1MC “Plane in the water!” When I looked back, I saw two chutes come down, one went into the water just off the port quarter, and the other landed on the side of a E-2 Hawkeye on the deck. In all the noise of the plane hitting the deck and the throttles being pushed to full military, I never heard the bang of the seats.

It was one of the most startling and amazing things I have ever seen in my life. I was all by myself up on the bow...there was nobody else up there and I had a ringside seat to that plane’s final moments. I felt like I was the only witness to that, even though I am sure everyone up in the island saw it better than me. I immediately ran all the way back to my line shack and burst in all googly-eyed, exclaiming to everyone “You won’t believe what I just saw!”

Funny thing is, for years, it somehow got stuck in my head that it was an F14 I saw go down. It was only in the last few years that did a search to find out specifically what date it happened on, and was chagrined to find it was an A-6, not an F-14. It was odd to have my mind play that trick on me.

[thesearethetimes...]

BookMark

[Faith65]

Great info- thanks for posting.

[laotzu]

The largest insurer of commercial airplanes and ships in the world is Lloyds of London.

If the 'Triangle' truly represented any greater risk, there would be an additional surcharge for any operating in that area. Of course, there is not.