160 airplanes have gone missing since 1910

Apart from the Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, which has now been missing since March 7 , 2014, at least 160 airplanes have vanished off the face of the earth since December 22, 1910 when a private plane en route from Calais (France) to Dover (England) disappeared while flying over the 560 kilometre English Channel in the Atlantic Ocean.

The list of 160 aircraft only includes the ones that have remained an unsolved mystery till date, because neither were the reasons of their disappearances definitely determined, nor were their wreckage or any human onboard recovered—-dead or alive.


A prestigious British newspaper “The Guardian” stated in its March 13, 2014 edition that since 1948, 100 aircraft have gone missing in flight and never been recovered.Having sought data of the post-1948 aerial disappearances from the Aviation Safety Network, “The Guardian” had reported a few days ago: “Should the Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 never be found, its disappearance would be by far the biggest such unexplained disaster in aviation.”

Though the seemingly ill-fated MH 370 was flying nowhere near the Bermuda Triangle, which is believed to have a high incidence of unexplained losses of ships, small boats and aircraft, a few conspiracies have cropped up in international media, one of which states that the Gulf of Thailand also houses a mysteriously treacherous zone like the Bermuda Triangle!

The 1.2 million km Bermuda Triangle, also known as Devil’s Triangle and Devil’s Sea, is bounded roughly at its points by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, has been a subject to dozens of articles, books, and television programs promoting its mystery over the years, especially since 1945 when five American Navy planes had vanished here on a training mission during a severe storm.

The 1945 US Navy accident had given birth to bizarre theories that some supernatural forces in and around the Bermuda Triangle may have been responsible for this occurrence.However, the United States Coast Guard experts disagree with the stories and myths about the Bermuda Triangle, citing statistics demonstrating that the number of incidents involving lost ships and aircraft is no larger than that of any other heavily traveled region of the world.

SOURCE: www.thenews.com.pk