In this May 1937 file photo, American aviaor Amelia Earhart, poses in front of her twin-engine Lockheed Electra in Los Angeles prior to her flight around the world. Earhart’s disappearance in 1937 is among aviation’s most enduring mysteries.
On Sunday, AirAsia flight 8501 with 161 people on board lost contact and vanished in airspace thick with storm clouds, while flying over the Java Sea after taking off from Indonesia en route Singapore. The plane's disappearance and suspected crash
Flight MH 370 went missing early morning on March 8. It left Kuala Lumpur at 12.41 a.m. and was to land in Beijing at 6.30 a.m. the same day. Contact with the plane and its radar signal was lost at 1.40 a.m. when it was flying over Vietnam. It was
Air France Flight 447, plunged into the Mid-Atlantic on June 1, 2009, with 228 people on board. Some debris from the plane surfaced in the ocean the next day, but it took almost two years for authorities to recover the craft's "black box" recorder
US Air Flight 427 was minutes away from landing in Pittsburgh on September 8, 1994, when the plane hit turbulence and corkscrewed to the ground at nearly 300 miles per hour. The aircraft shattered upon impact a mere 28 seconds. All 132 people aboard
The Lying Tiger Line Flight 739, a US military chartered flight that was transporting American troops to Vietnam when it vanished shortly after refueling in Guam on March 16, 1962. All 107 people on board were presumed dead. Despite a massive eight-
This British South American Airways flight Star Dust, vanished in the Andes range during a snowstorm on August 2, 1947. There was no sign of the aircraft, which was traveling to Chile from Buenos Aires, or its 11 passengers for more than 50 years,
A training mission of five Navy Avenger planes, led by experienced flight instructor Charles Taylor, took off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. An hour and a half into the mission, pilots reported that they had become disorientated and couldn't
On December 5, 1945, five Navy torpedo bombers took off from Florida on a training mission known as Flight 19. The five planes and the 14 crew members they held disappeared and the wreckage were never fully recovered. A rescue plane sent to search