If you ask us what mystery of the history of aviation we know, we will surely talk about the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 of 2014.However, in the years that this means of transport has crossed the sky, it has been surrounded by enigmas on many other occasions.Some of these, today, still have no explanation .Share us 3 unsolved mysteries of the history of aviation .
3 unsolved mysteries of aviation history
1.Disappearance of the Boeing B-47E Stratojet 52-534
On March 10, 1956 the Boeing B-47E Stratojet 52-534 disappeared in the Mediterranean Sea.The peculiarity of this flight is that He had two nuclear weapons cores disassembled in his cellar .He had left Tampa, Florida, and was on his way to the Ben Guerir air military base in Morocco.It was a non-stop and refueling flight in the air e.After the first refueling that happened without incident, contact with the mother plane for a second supply.Suddenly, the communication ceased and the plane never heard anything again .His three crew disappeared with the plane.
There was no danger of nuclear detonation because the nuclei were dismantled.It was reported, by a French agency, that it had fallen in an area of French Morocco, but was never found in that area or anywhere else, remnants of the device.
2.Flight 739 of the Flying Tiger Line
It was a Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation that was hired by the US armed forces to make a charter flight on March 16, 1962 .On board were 93 US soldiers and 3 South Vietnamese in addition to the crew.In total 107 people disappeared .
There were s Alido of the Travis air base in California and his final destination was Saigon in Vietnam.He rested on Guam Island and had to do it again in the Philippines, at Clark's air base, but he never arrived.He mysteriously disappeared with those 107 people on board The American government started the largest search for remains known until then . 520,000km2 were searched for some indication of what had happened or where the plane could have been crashed , but nothing was found .The version that had exploded in flight for unknown reasons was taken for granted.
Boeing 707-323C of VARIG
Varig's Boeing 707-323C disappeared on January 30, 1979 when it flew from Tokyo Narita airport to Rio de Janeiro airport with stopover at Los Angeles International Airport.Boeing captain Gilberto Araujo da Silva, had already suffered six years before an accident in Paris in which 123 p died ersonas.He had more than 23,000 flight hours.It was a cargo plane whose crew consisted of 6 people. The plane disappeared 30 minutes after its takeoff about 200 km from Tokyo.
In the cargo hold he was transporting 153 paintings by Manabu Mabe, that returned from Japan to Brazil after being exhibited.The works were valued at more than one million dollars . The remains of the plane were never found , nor of course the paintings he carried.
What really happened in these aviation mysteries? Perhaps we will never know or, as in the case of Amelia Heart that we tell you in the Mysterious article: Amelia Earhart's possible end as a shipwreck, one day they will be resolved.
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