5 Aircraft Vanished - Each One Should Have Been Found

At nineteen minutes past one in the morning, the captain of a Boeing 777 says good night to air traffic control. Two minutes later the plane is gone from every screen watching it. It has not crashed. For almost seven more hours a satellite high above the Indian Ocean keeps hearing from it - roughly once an hour, a small electronic knock from a plane nobody can see. These are five aircraft that took off and were never found. Each one had a better chance of being found than the one before it: a radio, a ship listening, witnesses watching the sky, a satellite. Every one of them is still missing. 0:00 The cold open 1:03 Five - the White Bird, Paris to New York, 1927 3:07 Four - Amelia Earhart, the central Pacific, 1937 5:13 Three - Flight 19, off Florida, 1945 7:32 Two - Flying Tiger 739, the Philippine Sea, 1962 9:30 One - Malaysia Airlines 370, the Indian Ocean, 2014 12:00 The sixth - the name you expected to hear - SOURCES The White Bird - French Air Ministry inquiry into the loss of Nungesser and Coli, 1927; the Paris newspaper edition of 9 May 1927 that reported the arrival that never happened; TIGHAR White Bird Project field reports. Amelia Earhart - USCGC Itasca radio logs, 2 July 1937; the US Navy report of the search, July 1937; Bureau of Air Commerce records, US National Archives. Flight 19 - US Navy Board of Investigation into the loss of five TBM Avengers and one PBM Mariner, 1945-46, and the revised finding of "causes unknown"; Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale records. Flying Tiger 739 - Civil Aeronautics Board accident report, 1962; US Army casualty records for the 107 people aboard; the statements of the crew of the tanker in the CAB file. Malaysia Airlines 370 - Malaysian ICAO Annex 13 safety investigation report, 2018; Australian Transport Safety Bureau search reports, 2014-2017; Inmarsat satellite handshake analysis; Ocean Infinity search records. The Bermuda Triangle - the 1964 magazine article that named it; United States Coast Guard statements on the area. - Every age casts a long shadow. We tell you what is in it. Dark history, told carefully. Sources are listed in every description. New video every Sunday.

Added 18 Oct 2026