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The 1951 Atlantic C-124 disappearance involved a Douglas C-124 Globemaster II of the 2nd Strategic Support Squadron, Strategic Air Command, which ditched into the Atlantic Ocean on the late afternoon of 23 March 1951 after reporting a fire in the cargo hold.
North Atlantic Ocean Main article: 1953 Skyways Avro York disappearance: April 1, 1953: Miles M.38 Messenger 2A (G-AKBL) [127] 2 Unknown North Atlantic Ocean : Private flight piloted by Rodney R. Matthews-Naper with passenger Walter Bradley. [127] [128] [129] Possible debris from their plane was sighted from the air, west of Isle of Man. [127]
On 11 January 1955, Shackleton WG531, of No. 42 Sqn, took off from RAF St Eval at 10:14 for a 15-hour patrol around the area of the Atlantic Ocean south west of Ireland known as Fastnet. At 10:20, Shackleton WL743 of the same squadron, took off from the same location to follow WG531 to the same area for the same patrol. [3]
A team of ocean explorers discovered what they hoped was Amelia Earhart's missing plane. It turned out to be a rock formation.
This is a list of previously missing aircraft that disappeared in flight for reasons that were initially never definitely determined. The status of "previously missing" is a grey area, as there is a lack of sourcing on both the amount of debris that needs to be recovered, as well as the amount of time it takes after the crash for the aircraft to be recovered while searching, to fit this ...
The R6D-1 – the U.S. Navy version of the United States Air Force C-118 Liftmaster and the civilian Douglas DC-6B airliner – was carrying a crew of nine and 50 passengers on a scheduled Military Air Transport Service flight from RAF Lakenheath, England, to Lajes Field in the Azores on 10 October 1956 [1] when it disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean about 590 kilometers (370 mi; 320 nmi ...
A sonar image captured by Deep Sea Vision, an underwater scanning company, that may show the remains of Amelia Earhart’s lost Lockheed 10-E Electra aircraft in the Pacific Ocean (Deep Sea Vision)
Atlantic Ocean: Hinchliffe, a decorated flying ace, and Mackay, an actress and aviation pioneer, attempted to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a bid for Mackay to become the first woman to have succeeded in the transatlantic flight. The plane was last seen near the west of Cork, Ireland, but nothing more is known of it. [146] Elsie Mackay: 34 25 May ...