(SC)Mysterious Plane Crashes

During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model called 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island.

Some of the plausible stories to explain her disappeance include :
• She simply ran out of fuel and crashed into the mighty Pacific.
• Some believe that her circumnavigational flight was a cover for a spying mission on the Japanese who eventually captured her.
• Some even say that after being captured by the Japs she help spread Japanese propoganda as one of many women called ‘Tokyo Rose’. etc.
Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day.

On November 8, 1957, Pan Am’s Flight 7 nicknamed the Clipper Romance of the Skies was just starting a round-the-world journey when it crashed into the Pacific Ocean on its first leg, killing 44 people. The wreckage was located a week later, when a US navy aircraft carrier spotted bodies floating northeast of Honolulu (the capital city of Hawaii). Authorities were unable to pinpoint the cause of the accident, but there are several startling facts about the crash. For one, no distress calls were ever received, and the debris was found way off course. But perhaps the most unusual of all were the toxicology reports, which revealed that several of the recovered bodies had high levels of carbon monoxide in their systems.

In 2009, Air France Flight 447 inexplicably dropped out of the sky and plunged into the Atlantic Ocean—sending 228 people to their watery graves. There was no mayday call, and no one was aware the plane went down until several hours later, when the pilots failed to make their planned contact with the ATC.

One such disaster that has remained a mystery is 1996′s TWA Flight 800 crash in which 230 perished only 12 minutes after the plane took off from the John F Kennedy airport in New York.
After a four long year investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded that defective wiring caused a spark which ignited the plane’s fuel apply causing the mid air explosion.

Flight 427 was supposed to fly on a short trip from Chicago to Pittsburgh. However the aircraft inexplicably malfunctioned and plummeted to the ground at a speed approaching 500 kilometers per hour killing all 132 souls on board. It was one of the deadliest crashes in America’s aviation history and created a scene so gruesome that hardened war veterans were disturbed by the carnage.
One would expect such a mystery to be solved within a period of a week but it took 4 long years to determine the cause of malfunction. The examiners concluded that a defect in the rudder caused the jet to malfunction.

In 1962, the US military chartered Flying Tiger Flight 739 to transport supplies and Army members from California to Saigon, Vietnam. After stopping to refuel in Guam, the Super Constellation L-1049 plane took off and disappeared over the Philippine Sea. There was no distress call, and the weather was clear — it seemed as if the aircraft simply vanished. After an elaborate search by four branches of the military yielded nothing, all 107 people aboard were presumed dead. The debris of the Flying Tiger was never found due to which investigators could never determine what happened to flight 739.

American Airlines Flight 191 was a McDonnel Douglas DC-10 aircrat which moments after takeoff from the Chicago airport crashed about a mile from the runway after its left engine separated and flipped over the top of the wing.

On Halloween Day of 1999, EgyptAir Flight 990 plunged into the Atlantic Ocean—killing all 217 aboard.

The US determined that the copilot was suicidal and deliberately took down the plane for personal, unknown reasons. The Egyptians chalked the incident up to mechanical failures.

Although we may never know exactly what happened, the final exchanges on the flight’s voice recorder give us a pretty good idea. The pilot was recorded saying, “What is this? What is this? Did you shut the engines?” Meanwhile, the copilot was repeating, “I rely on God.”