#1: Glen Miller
Musician, Glenn Miller gave a string of performances in England for Allied forces with the US Army Air Force Band in the summer of 1944. He spent his last night alive in Milton Ernest, near Bedford on December 14th 1944. The next day he was to fly to Paris to play for servicemen in France. They departed from RAF Tinwood Farm and disappeared over the English Channel.
#2: Star Dust 1947
The BSAA Star Dust, disappeared during a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile. The aircraft, was owned by British South American Airways (BSAA). The plane never reached its destination, but the radio operator managed to send out one final cryptic morse code message - reading "STENDEC" -before it disappeared. The Star Dust wasn't discovered until 50 years later, when two Argentine mountaineers found fragments of the engine and shreds of clothing.
#3: Flight 19
On the afternoon of December 5th, 1945, six disappeared into thin air. An hour and a half into the mission, pilots reported that they had become disorientated and couldn't recognize landmarks below them. In radio transmissions, Taylor told the Naval Air Station at Fort Lauderdale both of his compasses were out of action. Despite the efforts of the Air Station controllers, the team were unable to find their bearings. As the weather deteriorated, they couldn't find landfall and ditched into the sea, with the deaths of all 14 airmen and crew.
#4: Amelia Earhart
Pilot Amelia Earhart disappeared in her twin-engine monoplane Electra over the Pacific Ocean in 1937, in an attempt to circumnavigate the globe. No trace of her plane was ever found even after a multi-million dollar search effort, and Earhart was officially declared dead in 1939.
#5: The Star Tiger
A second BSAA plane, the Star Tiger, disappeared flying from Santa Maria in Azores to Bermuda on 30th January 1948. The plane was blown off course and had to fly directly into a gale to reach Bermuda with enough fuel remaining. The lookout plane arrived safely just after 4am - but the Star Tiger was never seen or heard from again.
#6: Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
A flight headed to Santiago, Chile carrying 45 passengers and crew crashed into the Andes mountains in poor weather in 1972, killing 12 people. The survivors were stranded for 72 days. In the meantime, eight were killed in an avalanche that hit the plane's wreckage where they were taking shelter, and the remaining 16 resorted to cannibalism to stay alive, eating the corpses of the dead before they were finally found more than two months after disappearing out of the sky.
#7: Flying Tiger Line Flight 739
A U.S. military flight left Guam in 1962 with more 90 personnel headed for the Philippines, but it never arrived. The pilots never issued a distress call, and 1,300 people involved in the U.S. military search never found any trace of wreckage.
#8: Air France Flight 447
After taking off from Rio de Janeiro in 2009, Air France Flight 447 disappeared from radar screens about three hours later. It took five days for search crews to discover the wreckage of the Airbus A330 in the Atlantic Ocean, and two full years before the flight data recorder was recovered from the bottom of the sea.
#9: Flight 191
A lot of crashes/disappearances have happened with flights that have the number 191. Experimental plane X-15 Flight 191, which crashed in 1967 killing its pilot and JetBlue Airways flight 191 in 2012, during which the captain had an alleged panic attack, and had to be restrained by passengers. The most deadly being in 1979, when in O'Hare after taking off flight 191 crashed and killed all 258 passengers and 13 crew members.
#10: Star Ariel
Yet another BSAA plane, the Star Ariel, vanished during a flight from Bermuda to Jamaica on January 17th, 1949. Communication went down and the plane was never discovered.
#11: EgyptAir flight 990
Not to make light of the situation, but you should never tell someone who has a job like this that they are fired.Gamil el-Batouty, the co-pilot of the flight had just been reprimanded for sexual misconduct by an EgyptAir executive that was a passenger on the plane. The chief of the airline's pilot group, Hatem Rushdy told el-Batouty this would be his "last flight" - to which the co-pilot replied "this is the last flight for you too." Of course no real motive has been established, but we can all take a lucky guess. The co-pilot deliberately crashed the plane killing all passengers and crew members.
#12: 2003 Boeing 727-223
In 2003 when a Boeing 727-223 was stolen from an airport in Luanda, Angola. Formerly an American Airlines passenger jet, the plane was leased to an Angolan airline and subsequently grounded for financial reasons. No motive or plane has been found.
#13: Panair Do Brasil
In 1946, a plane that departed Rio de Janeiro heading for the Cuban capital of Havana, disappeared after take-off. They never did find it so local authorities closed the case. However, there's more to this story.....
#14: Panair Do Brasil Reappears!
The plane landed 47 years later in December 1993, at the airport of Bogota, Colombia. It was although the plane wasn't gone for years (other than the 36 human skeletons). There were warm coffee cups, lit cigarettes Old Gold brand and newspapers dated 21.09.1946 and whose ink smelled as they had been printed out the day before.
#15: Malaysian Airlines 370
Most recent mysterious plane disappearance so we are all familiar with this one. There are so many theories flying around from UFO abduction to black holes. No one knows for sure what happened and they can't find the plane!
