The continuing failure to find any trace of the Malaysian
Airlines Boeing 777 that disappeared on March 8 will cast a shadow over the
annual conference of the world’s airlines that opens today in Doha.
But as I have mentioned before, aircraft DO disappear (see
my blog of April 13). On the night of June 23, 1950, in what was then America’s
deadliest ever commercial airliner accident, a Northwest Orient DC-4 with 58
people on board went missing en route from New York to Seattle.
It vanished from radar screens 3,500 feet above Lake
Michigan. Divers turned up some upholstery and other light debris, but the main
wreckage has never been found, so pity those trying to locate flight MH370 in
the vastness of the Indian Ocean.
A Varig Brazilian cargo Boeing 707 disappeared just 30
minutes after take-off from Narita airport in Tokyo on January 30, 1979. In
addition to six crew, it was carrying more than a million dollars’ worth of
paintings. No trace has ever been found of people, paintings or aircraft.
* The story of the Moscow football stadium disaster of 1982 from the Romanian edition of 'Disastrous History of the World' - http://www.ziartricolorul.ro/tragedii-la-fotbal/
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