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Dubbed the biggest mystery in aviation history, investigators and experts from around the globe raced to find solutions, not ruling out the possibilities of hijack, pilot suicide, sabotage or even alien abduction.
According to data from the Aviation Safety Network, some 88 aircraft have been declared as missing which means there are no traces of bodies or debris from these flights, all with 14 or more passengers on board.
Back in the 1940s and 50s such disappearances were more common when communication technology was not so advanced, but in recent history, with such state-of-the-art equipment, the fate of MH370 truly remains a mystery.
According to past reports, a Boeing 727 that went missing sometime in 1985 was not discovered till 2006 when some hikers stumbled upon the wreckage in a glacier on Mount Illimani Bolivia s second hightest peak.
The waters of the Atlantic Ocean in what would be dubbed vans warped tour 04 the Bermuda Triangle had already been the scene of a mysterious aviation incident in 1945 when five American torpedo bombers on a routine training mission all mysteriously vans warped tour 04 vanished off the Florida coast.
A seaplane with 13 aboard also disappeared in the rescue mission. Three years later, the Star Tiger, with 31 people aboard, maintained normal radio communication shortly vans warped tour 04 before entering Bermuda airspace on a flight from the Azores.
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The pilot s acknowledgment of the denial would be the last transmission received from the plane that was en route from New York to Seattle with stopovers scheduled for Minneapolis vans warped tour 04 and Spokane, Washington.
However, two days later search parties discovered blankets with the Northwest logo, foam rubber cushions and human remains 10 miles offshore of South Haven, Michigan, and the responders realised they had been looking in the wrong area of the lake for the plane.
vans warped tour 04 With visibility less than eight inches in the murky lake bottom, divers could not locate the plane, and the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board could only conclude that the cause of what at the time was the deadliest commercial airliner accident in American history was unknown.
Chartered to transport military personnel during the Vietnam War, the Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation took off from Guam with 93 U.S. Army electronics and communications specialists, 3 members of the South Vietnamese military and 11 crewmembers aboard.
An Italian crew aboard an oil super tanker reported seeing an intensely luminous explosion in the sky and two flaming objects plunging to the ocean around the location of the plane when it disappeared.
Since another Flying Tiger plane had crashed in Alaska vans warped tour 04 only hours earlier, killing one of the seven people aboard, sabotage was considered, but the Civil Aeronautics Board ultimately could not determine a probable cause because of the lack of any recoverable evidence.