Russian Plane Crash: 7 Puzzling Airplane Disappearances In History
The aircraft was an An-24 passenger plane and was operated by a Siberia-based airline called Angara. (Images: Reuters)
Pan Am Flight 7 (November 9, 1957): The Boeing 377 Stratocruiser was carrying 36 passengers and 8 crew members from San Francisco to Honolulu. Halfway through their flight, radar contact was lost before the plane went missing. While 19 bodies were later recovered, the aircraft and the remaining 25 people were never found. (Image: Representative photo, Wikimedia Commons)
Canadian Pacific Air Lines (July 21, 1951): During the Korean War, a Douglas DC-4 took from from Vancouver, Canada, to Tokyo, Japan, carrying 31 passengers and 6 crew members. It encountered rain and low visibility during a refueling stop, following which it disappeared without a trace. No debris was ever found. (Image: Representative photo, Wikimedia Commons)
Flight 19, Bermuda Triangle (early December, 1945): In one of the most mysterious events, not one but six planes vanished into thin air, with no trace whatsoever. Avenger torpedo bombers took off for practice in what we today know as the Bermuda Triangle. To date, no debris of the six planes or their passengers have been found. The mystery surrounding Bermuda Triangle continues. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
Lockheed Electra (July 1937): American aviator Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and the first person ever to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland. On a maiden trip to fly around the globe, her twin-engine Lockheed Electra disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. Her plane wreckage was never found, making it one of the earliest and most mysterious plane disappearances in aviation history. (Image: Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum)
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