September 29, 2008, a hiker found identification cards of Steve Fossett in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and the crash site was discovered a few days later, 65 miles south of Flying M Ranch, where it was removed. On November 3, 2008, tests on two bones recovered from the accident produced a match with Fossett’s DNA. He had been found.
If Fossett has not been found which have undoubtedly made this list. It’s hard to believe that something as big as an airplane can only disappear, leaving behind no trace of where it landed. However, even on land, planes disappear and are never discovered. Or only discovered years later. Here are ten stories of people on the plane took off and disappeared, never to be seen again.
Charles Eugene Jules Marie Nungesser, French ace was a pilot and adventurer, best remembered as a rival to Charles Lindbergh. Nungesser, was a well-known in France as the third highest rating in the country by air combat victories during the First World War After the war, came to the United States, where planes flew in such films as Dawn Patrol. It was during the time that planes flew films had the idea to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Nungesser finally fulfilled his idea and set off on an attempt to make the first nonstop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York. He was flying with fellow wartime François Coli, in his plane The White Bird (L’Oiseau Blanc), a biplane PL.8 Levasseur. Coli and was known for making historic flight across the Mediterranean, and had been planning a transatlantic flight in 1923, with fellow wartime Paul Tarascon, another ace of the First World War. When Tarascon had to leave due to injury from an accident, Nungesser entered as a replacement.
Nungesser and Coli took off from Paris on May 8, 1927. His plane was seen again on Ireland, and then was never seen again. The disappearance of Nungesser is considered one of the biggest mysteries in aviation history, and modern speculation is that the aircraft was lost on either the Atlantic or crashed in Newfoundland and Maine. Two weeks after the attempt of Nungesser and Coli, Charles Lindbergh successfully travel, flying solo from New York to Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis.
Sigizmund Levanevsky born in a Polish family in St. Petersburg, Russia. Participated in the October Revolution on the side of the Bolsheviks, and later participated in the civil war in Russia, serving in the Red Army. In 1925, he graduated from the Naval Aviation School in Sebastopol and became a military pilot. As a pilot who carried out several long-haul flights. One of them took place on July 13, 1933, when Levanevsky rescued the American pilot James Mattern, who was forced to land near Anadyr during an attempted flight around the world.
Wed In April 1934, Levanevsky off from a makeshift runway in the Arctic ice of the Chukchi Sea, involved in the successful air rescue operation to save people from the sunken steamer Cheliuskin. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union by this fact. In August 1935, Levenevsky completed its first flight over the North Pole, a journey from Moscow to San Francisco. A contemporary of Charles Lindbergh, Levanevsky was hailed as a hero of the new era of aviation. In early 1936, flew back from Los Angeles, USA Moscow, USSR.
August 12, 1937, a type Bolkhovitinov DB-A aircraft with crew of six men under the captaincy of Levanevsky, began its long haul flights from Moscow to the U.S. through North Pole. Radio communications with the crew broke the next day, Aug. 13, when the aircraft encountered adverse weather conditions. After unsuccessful search attempts, all crew members are presumed dead. In March 1999, Dennis Thurston of the Minerals Management Service in Anchorage, found what appeared to be the remains in the shallow waters of the Bay of Camden, between Prudhoe Bay and Kaktovik. There was speculation that the media was Levanevsky aircraft, but a later attempt to locate the object again without success.
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith
Edward Sir Charles Kingsford Smith was a well-known early Australian aviator. In 1928, he made the first flight across the Pacific from America to Australia. He almost did not set the world record in aviation. As a child, living in Australia, young Charlie Smith was rescued from drowning on the beach in Sydney’s famous Bondi certain, for the swimmers who, just seven weeks later, were responsible for founding the world’s first life Official surf group savings at Bondi Beach. During the First World War he served in Gallipoli and eventually earned his wings. Was shot down and was a part of your foot amputee as a result. However, he continued flying in the U.S. as an itinerant actor, and then back in Australia as a pilot and an aviator.
May 31, 1928, Kingsford Smith and his team left Oakland, California, for the first flight across the Pacific to Australia. The flight was conducted in three stages. The first (from Oakland to Hawaii) was 2.400 miles, took 27 hours and 25 minutes and was uneventful. Then flew to Suva, Fiji, 3,100 miles away, taking 34 hours 30 minutes. This was the hardest part of the trip, as it flew through a massive storm near Ecuador. Then flew to Brisbane in 20 hours, which landed on June 9, 1928, after approximately 7,400 total flight miles. On arrival, Kingsford Smith was greeted by a crowd of 25,000 at Eagle Farm airport, and was feted as a hero.
He also made the first nonstop crossing of the Australian continent, the first flights between Australia and New Zealand, and the first to cross the Pacific to the east of Australia to the United States. He also made a flight from Australia to London, and set a new record of 10.5 days. Kingsford Smith and co-pilot Tommy Pethybridge Lady flew to the South during the night of Allahabad, India, Singapore Cross, as part of its attempt to break the speed record in England and Australia held by CWA Scott and Tom Campbell Black, when they disappeared over the Andaman Sea in the early hours of November 8, 1935.
Eighteen months later, the Burmese fishermen found an undercarriage leg and wheel that had been washed ashore in Aye island in the Gulf of Martaban, off the southeastern coast of Burma. Lockheed confirmed the undercarriage leg to be Dame de la Cruz del Sur. The running leg is now on public display in the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia. In 2009, a film crew from Sydney said they were sure they had found the Lady Southern Cross, which had been the landing gear found in 1937 on the Isle of Aye.
Sir Ian Mackintosh was a British novelist and writer, who is best remembered for creating the series of The Sandbaggers and television warship. On July 7, 1979, Mackintosh, along with Susan template, the daughter of an English cricketer, and the pilot left Anchorage, Alaska, en route to Kodiak. His plane developed engine problems and is believed to left in the ocean about 45 miles off the coast of Kodiak. Two U.S. Coast Rescue helicopters and a Coast Guard Guard were sent immediately to the area where the plane left. There are no signs that the plane was never found. The search continued for three days. Sir Ian Mackintosh was rumored to have been a British spy, and some believe that his disappearance was related in some way to work underground, but no proof. In all likelihood, the aircraft left and either sank, taking all three at the bottom, or all three survived and were drowned or succumbed to the cold.
George Cogar was a pioneer in the field of computers. A member of the UNIVAC 1004 electronic design team, Cogar finally invent the data recorder, which resulted in the need of computer punch cards. His company later invented an early type of personal computer. On September 2, 1983, George Cogar, five others and the pilot were aboard a plane en route from Vancouver Island to a hunting lodge in Smithers, Canada. The missing plane, probably of British Columbia, Canada. A search effort a week covered about 40,000 square kilometers, but no trace of the aircraft or its occupants was ever found. At that time, was the largest coordinated search in Canadian history and cost nearly $ 1 million. The families of the missing men, all billionaires, decided to continue the search on their own. So far, no trace was found.
Sir Arthur Coningham was a British RAF Air Marshal who served in World War II, as Commander in Chief Air Flight Training Command. Coningham is chiefly remembered as the person most responsible for the development of forward air control parties conduct close air support, which developed as commander of the Western Desert Air Force between 1941 and 1943, and as commander of the tactical air forces in the campaign Normandy in 1944.
In the movie Patton, Coningham is played by actor John Barrie. During the scene in which General George S Patton complains about the lack of air support for U.S. troops, Sir Arthur Patton confirms that more planes will not Germans. As has completed his sentence, the German planes strafed the compound. Coningham had recently retired from the RAF when the plane was missing in the western Atlantic. He was one of the 25 passengers on board an Avro Tudor IV G-Star AHNP Tiger, along with six crew members were lost when his flight from the airport in Santa Maria, Azores, failed to reach its target of Kindley Field, Bermuda. The plane was trying to locate Bermuda airspace when the radio officer, Robert Tuck Star Tiger board, called a radio relationship of Bermuda, but the signal was not strong enough to get an accurate reading. Tuck repeated application Eleven minutes later, and this time the radio operator of Bermuda was able to get an orientation of 72 degrees, an accuracy of 2 degrees. Bermuda operator of transmission of this information, and Tuck acknowledged. This was the last communication with the aircraft.
Bermuda radio operator tried several times to contact the Star Tiger again, without success. He then declared a s ...
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