Pan Am Flight 914
Pan Am Flight 914 is a hoax that a Douglas DC-4 disappeared after takeoff in 1955 and only landed again three decades later. The story has remained popular on the internet, featured on channels like Bright Side!.
Story[edit]
The hoax alleges that a Pan Am Douglas DC-4 with 60 passengers and 6 crew members disappeared without a trace on a flight from New York City to Miami on July 2nd, 1955. After 30 years (37 in some sources), the plane was sighted again near Caracas, and then after landing at the airport there, the plane immediately took off again and finally landed at its original destination in Miami. A 2019 YouTube video of the case has been viewed millions of times. In Internet forums, there was speculation, among other things, as to whether it had been a journey through time through a wormhole.
The hoax originates from a 1985 article in the Weekly World News, a tabloid known for false stories. The article was re-published in 1993 and 1999. The image of the plane is a stock photo of a Trans World Airlines DC-4. There are no contemporary sources of the incident in the press or the Civil Aeronautics Board accident reports.[1]
Furthermore, there is no indication in any of the full production lists for the DC-4 that such an event took place on any of the 1,244 machines of this type built, including the Pan Am.[2][3][4][5]
References[edit]
- ^ Evon, Dan (1 July 2019). "Did a Plane Disappear and Land 37 Years Later?". Snopes. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
- ^ Ford, Edward (November 1967). "THREE AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL HISTORIANS: LESLIE COWLISHAW, JOHN HOWARD LIDGETT CUMPSTON, AND WILLIAM JOHN STEWART McKAY". Medical Journal of Australia. 2 (21): 927–933. doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1967.tb21986.x. ISSN 0025-729X.
- ^ Eastwood, Tony (2007). Piston Engine Airliner Production List. The Aviation Hobby Shop, West Drayton. pp. 213–271.
- ^ "Accident list: Douglas DC-4, Aviation Safety Network".
- ^ "Aviation Safety Network: Pan American World Airways (Pan Am)".
External links[edit]
- The story of an American plane reappearing after 37 years is a myth, AFP, 25 March 2021
- Mysteries Of Flight: The Curious Case Of Pan Am Flight 914, Plane & Pilot, 22 June 2021