The mystery of flight 914, the plane that disappeared in 1955 landed 37 years later. Where do ships, trains and planes disappear? Strange landing in Caracas
It was an ordinary day in May. The weather was great. There was not a single cloud in the sky over Caracas.
It was a completely normal day for airport dispatcher Juan de la Corte. Nothing remarkable. Exactly the same as last shift. And the year before last.
During this quiet time, radar usually shows only two or three aircraft in the sky.
At one point, Juan de la Corte thought that somewhere in the distance, but clearly, he heard the noise of propeller engines. Dispatcher de la Corte's gaze fell on the radar again. A green stripe running along the entire circumference of the monitor highlighted only a couple of aircraft known to him. An unfamiliar plane did not appear on his radar. The dispatcher picked up binoculars and began to scan the sky around the control tower.
Caracas International Airport (Venezuela) Simon Bolivar
The ever-increasing noise of the engines and the emptiness on the radar made the experienced dispatcher, who was de la Corte, nervous. Through binoculars, the dispatcher saw a small DC-4 aircraft approaching the runways.
It was a strange plane. DC-4 aircraft have not been produced since World War II. This is a passenger, four-engine airliner, capable of accommodating, according to various sources, from 40 to 80 passengers, not counting crew members. It was he who was seen on the horizon that day by the dispatcher at Caracas International Airport, Juan de la Corte.
The controller, sensing something, gave the order to clear one of the runways and tried to contact the unknown aircraft.
— Unknown board, respond. - de la Corte said on the radio - Identify yourself!
Through slight interference, the pilot answered the question with a question:
- Where are we?! - The pilot’s voice was alarmed and confused. - Tell me, where are we? I'm flight 914 - New York - Miami.
Silence reigned in the control room. De la Corte and the other Caracas air traffic controllers took a few moments to digest what the DC-4 pilot had said. Miami! Miami is 1,800 km from Caracas!
— 914, the dispatcher of the airport in Caracas, Venezuela is speaking to you. - said Juan, - What’s wrong with you, 914th? Are you in distress? Get on the strip.
- Caracas?! How can this be? - asked the pilot.
A few minutes later, the DC-4 landed on one of the runways of Caracas International Airport.
An exclamation was heard in the cockpit, the intonation of which cannot be conveyed. The exclamation was full of horror and surprise:
- Jesus Christ, Jimmy! What the hell is this? Rocket?
Judging by the viewing angle, the pilots of Flight 914 were looking at nothing more than a modern jet aircraft taking off on the adjacent runway.
- We are flight 914! We are due at the Miami airport at 9:55 am, July 2nd. - the pilot shouted - how did we end up in Caracas? Something is not clean here!
— I assure you that you are at Caracas International Airport. Today is only May 21, 1992. - answered Juan de la Corte.
- Oh my God! - the pilot of flight 914 clearly did not count on such an answer.
The controller tried to reassure the pilot, saying that the ground crew was on the way and the pilots should remain calm.
- Don't come near us! - the pilot shouted into the open cockpit window - Don't come closer! We're leaving. Let's fly away from here!
The pilot screamed and waved a folder from which a small piece of thick paper fell out.
- Just think about it! - continued the captain of flight 914 - ninety-second year!
He started the engines and the plane took off. Soon the muttering on the radio died down, and there was no longer any reminder of the strange plane. The radar was still blank.
The ground team of technicians said that as they approached the plane, they saw frightened passengers of this flight who were pressed against the observation windows. After the 914 took off, the team discovered on the runway a document that had fallen from a folder that the DC-4 pilot was waving. This document turned out to be an ordinary pocket calendar. He looked like new, but the year - 1955 - confused him.
Juan de la Corte was trying to remember whether the pilot had mentioned the year of his flight plan in the conversation or not.
If mystical things do happen, this was clearly one of them. A post-war aircraft, pilots who were almost crazy from the sight of a jet airliner, a calendar for 1955 that fell out of the pilot’s folder - all this brought alarming thoughts to all the dispatchers at Caracas International Airport.
Is it possible to say that it was Flight 914, which took off from New York Airport in 1955 with 57 passengers on board? Skeptics think this is a great hoax. But the dispatchers who received the 914th DC-4 on one of the airport runways are sure that it was a plane from the past.
All communications between dispatchers and the ghost of Flight 914 were seized for careful analysis.
Later, Juan de la Corte recalled:
I saw the plane... I heard the pilot's voice. I even held a calendar in my hand, but I still can’t believe it. These people on board still thought it was 1955 and that they had landed in Florida. But that's not true. Only God knows where they have been all these years.
No one else saw the DC-4 plane with 57 passengers on board on flight 914 New York - Miami.
It still remains a mystery - Flight 914 - fact or fiction? Perhaps we will ever hear again about a plane that lost its course for 37 years and 1800 kilometers?
It was an ordinary day in May. The weather was great. There was not a single cloud in the sky over Caracas.
It was a completely normal day for airport dispatcher Juan de la Corte. Nothing remarkable. Exactly the same as last shift. And the year before last.
During this quiet time, radar usually shows only two or three aircraft in the sky.
At one point, Juan de la Corte thought that somewhere in the distance, but clearly, he heard the noise of propeller engines. Dispatcher de la Corte's gaze fell on the radar again. A green stripe running along the entire circumference of the monitor highlighted only a couple of aircraft known to him. An unfamiliar plane did not appear on his radar. The dispatcher picked up binoculars and began to scan the sky around the control tower.
Caracas International Airport (Venezuela) Simon Bolivar
The ever-increasing noise of the engines and the emptiness on the radar made the experienced dispatcher, who was de la Corte, nervous. Through binoculars, the dispatcher saw a small DC-4 aircraft approaching the runways.
It was a strange plane. DC-4 aircraft have not been produced since World War II. This is a passenger, four-engine airliner, capable of accommodating, according to various sources, from 40 to 80 passengers, not counting crew members. It was he who was seen on the horizon that day by the dispatcher at Caracas International Airport, Juan de la Corte.
The controller, sensing something, gave the order to clear one of the runways and tried to contact the unknown aircraft.
— Unknown board, respond. - de la Corte said on the radio - Identify yourself!
Through slight interference, the pilot answered the question with a question:
- Where are we?! – the pilot’s voice was alarmed and confused. - Tell me, where are we? I am flight 914 - New York - Miami.
Silence reigned in the control room. De la Corte and the other Caracas air traffic controllers took a few moments to digest what the DC-4 pilot had said. Miami! Miami is 1,800 km from Caracas!
— 914, the dispatcher of the airport in Caracas, Venezuela is speaking to you. – said Juan, “What’s wrong with you, 914th?” Are you in distress? Get on the strip.
- Caracas?! How can this be? – asked the pilot.
A few minutes later, the DC-4 landed on one of the runways of Caracas International Airport.
An exclamation was heard in the cockpit, the intonation of which cannot be conveyed. The exclamation was full of horror and surprise:
- Jesus Christ, Jimmy! What the hell is this? Rocket?
Judging by the viewing angle, the pilots of Flight 914 were looking at nothing more than a modern jet aircraft taking off on the adjacent runway.
- We are flight 914! We are due at the Miami airport at 9:55 am, July 2nd. - the pilot shouted - how did we end up in Caracas? Something is not clean here!
— I assure you that you are at Caracas International Airport. Today is only May 21, 1992. – answered Juan de la Corte.
- Oh my God! – the pilot of flight 914 clearly did not count on such an answer.
The controller tried to reassure the pilot, saying that the ground crew was on the way and the pilots should remain calm.
- Don't come near us! – the pilot shouted into the open cockpit window – Don’t come closer! We're leaving. Let's fly away from here!
The pilot screamed and waved a folder from which a small piece of thick paper fell out.
- Just think about it! - continued the captain of flight 914 - ninety-second year!
He started the engines and the plane took off. Soon the muttering on the radio died down, and there was no longer any reminder of the strange plane. The radar was still blank.
The ground team of technicians said that as they approached the plane, they saw frightened passengers on this flight who were pressed against the observation windows. After the 914 took off, the team discovered on the runway a document that had fallen from a folder that the DC-4 pilot was waving. This document turned out to be an ordinary pocket calendar. He looked like new, but the year was confusing: 1955.
Juan de la Corte was trying to remember whether the pilot had mentioned the year of his flight plan in the conversation or not.
If mystical things do happen, this was clearly one of them. A post-war aircraft, pilots who were almost crazy from the sight of a jet airliner, a calendar for 1955 that fell out of the pilot’s folder - all this brought alarming thoughts to all the dispatchers at Caracas International Airport.
Is it possible to say that it was Flight 914, which took off from New York Airport in 1955 with 57 passengers on board? Skeptics think this is a great hoax. But the dispatchers who received the 914th DC-4 on one of the airport runways are sure that it was a plane from the past.
All communications between dispatchers and the ghost of Flight 914 were seized for careful analysis.
Later, Juan de la Corte recalled:
I saw the plane... I heard the pilot's voice. I even held a calendar in my hand, but I still can’t believe it. These people on board still thought it was 1955 and that they had landed in Florida. But that's not true. Only God knows where they have been all these years.
No one else saw the DC-4 plane with 57 passengers on board on flight 914 New York - Miami.
It still remains a mystery - Flight 914 - fact or fiction? Perhaps we will ever hear again about a plane that lost its course for 37 years and 1800 kilometers?
In July 1911, the Sanetti company invited a hundred rich people on a pleasure excursion. A locomotive with three carriages was approaching a mountain tunnel. According to the testimony of two passengers who jumped off at the last moment while moving, everything was suddenly covered in a milky white fog, and people were suddenly seized by panic. The train entered the tunnel and was never seen again. Search efforts were unsuccessful, and the entrance to the tunnel was blocked with stones just in case.
And 15 years later, a relative of one of the missing passengers came across a strange recording in the archives. It stated that in 1845, 104 Italians appeared in Mexico City, claiming that they had arrived by train from Rome. Then they were considered crazy. Evidence of this are the notes of a psychiatrist from Mexico.
The further fate of these people remains unknown. Eyewitnesses noticed that the clothes and belongings of the Italians did not correspond in any way to the 40s of the 19th century. Some things have survived to this day, for example a snuff box with the numbers “1907”.
Mysterious fog
The cloud of fog has appeared in many other stories of disappearances without a trace. On August 12, 1915, Colonel Horace Beauchamp's battalion and Captain Frank Beck's volunteer company, part of the Norfolk Regiment of the British Army, were ordered to occupy the high ground near the Turkish village of Anafarta. Carrying out a combat mission, 250 soldiers and 16 officers entered a strange foggy cloud that covered the approaches to the forest. No one ever saw these people again, although the British, until the mid-60s, did not give up hope of finding at least some traces of the disappeared military. In 1967, among the secret materials concerning the operation in the Dardanelles, a report was discovered about the allegedly found bodies of missing soldiers, but only two of them could be identified. And, what is noteworthy, even General Ian Hamilton, who sent the units of Bosham and Beck into battle, did not recognize them - and he, according to contemporaries, knew by sight almost every soldier of the Norfolk Regiment.
The Mystery of Flight 914
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There are dozens, if not hundreds, of cases of aircraft disappearing without a trace. One of the most mysterious stories is the mystery of Flight 914. A DC-4 charter plane with 57 passengers on board, taking off from New York to Miami in 1955, landed 37 years later in Venezuela. Not even a few minutes had passed before the ghost plane took off again and disappeared into the clouds.
Eyewitness accounts and taped radio communications between the pilot and the control tower prove that the landing actually took place. “I saw the plane I heard the voice of the pilot. “I even held a 1955 calendar in my hand, but I still can’t believe it,” said Juan de la Corte, who watched everything happen from his post on the flight control tower. “These people on board still thought it was 1955 and that they had landed in Florida. Only God knows where they have been all these years.”
Controllers realized something strange was happening when a propeller-driven plane began approaching the airport and did not appear on radar screens. "We asked the pilot to identify himself, and he radioed us: 'Where are we?' He sounded scared and confused, but finally he said he was on charter flight 914 from New York to Miami, Juan de la Corte recalls. - The landing went well. But then I heard the pilot say to his co-pilot: “Jesus Christ, Jimmy! What the hell is this? They looked at the jet plane and acted as if it were a spaceship."
According to de la Corte, as the ground crew and tanker approached the plane, the pilot shouted over the radio, “No! Don't come any closer! We're flying out of here!" Ground service workers later reported that they saw the passengers' faces pressed against the windows. And the pilot opened the window of his cabin and waved some kind of folder for them to get out. Apparently, the 1955 calendar fell out of it, which was later found on the runway.
Missing planes may suddenly be found
On August 13, 1937, the DB-A aircraft with the number N-209, led by Hero of the Soviet Union Levanevsky, with five crew members on board, disappeared in the Arctic. The last message sent by the crew was quite strange: “Can you hear me?.. Wait!” The search turned up nothing. According to the head of one of the branches of the Russian Geographical Society, Andrei Fandyushin, “they searched all of Yakutia, but the plane was not found.” However, on February 1, 2013, an expedition of the Russian Geographical Society discovered debris in Yamal that could belong to Levanevsky’s plane.
And in the 30s, the Americans also looked for our loss, with exactly the same success. However, the Yankees’ abilities for such searches are known: they also could not find their celebrity, no less than Levanevsky in the USSR, the writer Amelia Earhart, who disappeared in the same 1937 during a flight over Howland Island. Just like her plane.
But it happens that seemingly missing planes are found. Evidence of this is the recent story of the An-2 of the Chelyabinsk airline Avia-Zov that disappeared in the Sverdlovsk region. Aircraft RA 40312 took off from the Serov airfield with 12 passengers on board on June 12, 2012 and disappeared. One and a half thousand people took part in the search efforts - the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the police and even the riot police. 13 aircraft and 330 units of ground equipment were involved. To no avail. The search was stopped in November. And the next year, in May, bodies and debris were unexpectedly found - 10 kilometers from Serov. In those places that were combed several times by local volunteers. How it happened that they did not notice what they were looking for, no one can clearly explain.
Ghost ships
Legends about ghost ships live on for centuries and are replenished with new, very real stories. Probably the most famous of them is the disappearance of the Sulfur Queen tanker without a trace in the Bermuda Triangle in February 1963. The tanker left the American Beaumont and two days later disappeared along with its cargo - 15 thousand tons of sulfur. The search for the tanker or its wreckage continued until 1972, but was unsuccessful. Enthusiasts are still looking for the ship.
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Here's a new story. The double-deck cruise ship Lyubov Orlova was built in Yugoslavia by Soviet order in 1976. Since then, the ship has changed owners and tenants several times until it was decommissioned in 2013. On January 23, the ship was towed from Canada to the Dominican Republic. On the way, the tow rope broke, and the ship went adrift along with a dozen Dominicans. No matter how they looked for him, they could not find him. For some time it was believed that the ship sank. But “Lyubov Orlova” was found a couple of months later off the coast of Ireland. Last summer, the British coast guard reported that they were watching the same “Lyubov Orlova” sink. They even photographed a ship plunging into the abyss. And a month ago, Russian sailors found signals from the ship Lyubov Orlova - the ship was drifting in the Atlantic as if nothing had happened. But he drowned! And where is the crew, where did the Dominicans disappear? In general, there are definitely enough mysterious stories for our lifetime. Will the story of the missing Malaysian Boeing remain among them - who knows?
Like a flying phantom from the Twilight Zone, a DC-4 charter plane with 57 passengers on board landed in Caracas, Venezuela in 1992... 37 years after it disappeared in 1955 while flying from New York to Miami! But within a few minutes, the ghost plane took off again and disappeared into the clouds! Eyewitness accounts and recorded radio communications between the pilot and the control tower provide irrefutable evidence that this nightmare landing of the plane actually happened.
The testimony of the airport control workers who saw this incident coincides in essence, said Deputy Minister of Civil Aviation Ramon Estovar. But the clincher, according to Estovar, is a small 1955 calendar that the pilot threw on the runway moments before the DC-4 took off and disappeared.
I saw the plane... I heard the pilot's voice. “I even held the calendar in my hand, but I still can’t believe it,” said Juan de la Corte, who clearly saw everything that happened from his post on the flight control tower. “These people on board still thought it was 1955 and that they had landed in Florida.” But that's not true. Only God knows where they have been all these years.
According to de la Corte and other air traffic controllers, they realized that something supernatural was happening when a propeller-driven plane suddenly began approaching the airport and did not appear on the radar screens.
We saw the plane with our own eyes, but there was no sign of it on the radar,” de la Corte said. - We asked the pilot to identify himself, and he radioed us: - “Where are we?” He sounded scared and confused, but finally he said that he was on charter flight 914 from New York to Miami with a crew of 4 and 57 passengers on board.
The dispatcher said that after these words from the pilot, there was silence in the control room. Everyone was stunned. Flight 914's destination... Miami... 1800 km from Caracas...
I answered the pilot: “This is Caracas, Venezuela... South America.” Then I asked: “Are you in distress?” There was no answer, and I cleared the corridor for the plane to land. The landing went well. Just when I started to think everything had gone well, I heard the pilot say to his co-pilot, “Jesus Christ, Jimmy! What the hell is this? They looked at the jet plane and acted as if it were a spaceship.
According to de la Corte, the pilot stated that he was scheduled to land at Miami International Airport at 9:55 a.m. on July 2, 1955.
Then I heard him say: “Something is wrong here.” I radioed the plane: “Captain, this is the international airport in Caracas. Today is May 21, 1992." He just exclaimed: “Oh, God!” You could hear him breathing heavily. I tried to calm him down by telling him that the ground team was already heading towards them.
According to de la Corte, as the ground crew and tanker approached the plane, the pilot shouted over the radio: “No! Don't come any closer! We're flying out of here!" Ground service workers later reported that they saw the passengers' faces pressed against the windows. And the pilot opened his cockpit window and waved for them to get out.
He was waving some kind of folder,” de la Corte said. - Apparently, the calendar fell out of it, which we later discovered. The pilot started the engines and the plane took off.
Civil aviation officials have seized all recordings of communications with the aircraft, as well as the calendar found, and are continuing to investigate the incident.
There are cases that are difficult to believe in reality. For example, that a plane arrived at the airport that took off thirty-seven years ago.A passenger airliner flying from New York to Miami in July 1955 suddenly disappeared from radar. Despite large-scale search efforts, the crash site of the aircraft could not be found. The tragic incident faded from memory over time. The fate of the crew and passengers would have remained unknown, but unexpectedly the plane landed... 37 years later in Caracas. Airport employees had to experience a real shock when a long-outdated Douglas DC-4 began circling in the sky.
Like a flying phantom from the Twilight Zone, a DC-4 charter plane with 57 passengers on board landed on the runway, but not even a few minutes later, the ghost plane took off again and disappeared into the clouds!
Eyewitness accounts and tape-recorded radio communications between the pilot and the control tower provide irrefutable evidence that this nightmare landing of the plane actually happened.
The testimony of the airport control workers who saw this incident coincides in essence, said Deputy Minister of Civil Aviation Ramon Estovar. But the clincher, according to Estovar, is a small 1955 calendar that the pilot threw on the runway moments before the DC-4 took off and disappeared.
- I saw the plane... I heard the pilot’s voice. “I even held the calendar in my hand, but I still can’t believe it,” said Juan de la Corte, who clearly saw everything that happened from his post on the flight control tower.“These people on board still thought it was 1955 and that they had landed in Florida.” But that's not true. Only God knows where they have been all these years. According to de la Corte and other air traffic controllers, they realized that something supernatural was happening when a propeller-driven plane suddenly began approaching the airport and did not appear on the radar screens. “We saw the plane with our own eyes, but there was no sign of it on the radar,” said de la Corte. - We asked the pilot to identify himself, and he radioed us: “Where are we?” He sounded scared and confused, but finally he said that he was on charter flight 914 from New York to Miami with a crew of 4 and 57 passengers on board. The dispatcher said that after these words from the pilot, there was silence in the control room. Everyone was stunned. The destination of flight 914 is... Miami... 1800 km from Caracas... - I answered the pilot: “This is Caracas, Venezuela... South America.” Then I asked, “Are you in distress?” There was no answer, and I cleared the corridor for the plane to land. The landing went well. Just when I started to think everything had gone well, I heard the pilot say to his co-pilot, “Jesus Christ, Jimmy! What the hell is this? They looked at the jet plane and acted as if it were a spaceship. According to de la Corte, the pilot stated that he was scheduled to land at Miami International Airport at 9:55 a.m. on July 2, 1955. “Then I heard him say, 'Something's wrong here.' I radioed the plane:
“Captain, this is the international airport in Caracas. Today is May 21, 1992." He just exclaimed: “Oh, God!” You could hear him breathing heavily. I tried to calm him down by telling him that a ground team was on its way.According to de la Corte, as the ground crew and tanker approached the plane, the pilot shouted over the radio, “No! Don't come any closer! We're flying out of here!" Ground service workers later reported that they saw the passengers' faces pressed against the windows. And the pilot opened his cockpit window and waved for them to get out. “He was waving some kind of folder,” de la Corte said.
Apparently, the calendar fell out of it, which we later discovered. The pilot started the engines and the plane took off. Civil aviation officials have seized all recordings of communications with the aircraft, as well as the calendar found, and are continuing to investigate the incident.
What do opponents of this event think about this?
Apparently, the story of the missing airliner from the first to the last letter is an invention of yellow press journalists. On the cover of one of the early issues of Weekly World News in the announcement, you can see the familiar designation of the aircraft model, but a slightly different date for its return. The inscription reads: “The mystery of flight 914, which disappeared 30 years ago and landed at a modern airport!”Why did they later indicate that the same plane landed 37 years later? Perhaps the author of the publication found the uneven figure more attractive. It is possible that in the future the story will acquire new details and chilling details. As long as there is a demand for fried facts, someone has to present them in the form of creepy horror stories or funny fables.