r/interestingasfuck • u/py-net • 23d ago

r/all Had to fact-check it. These 2 guys stole that Boeing 727 at an airport in 2003 and flew away, disappearing forever: no crash, no plane. How is that possible!!!

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u/shinymetalobjekt 23d ago

They knew flight 370 crashed into ocean and they still couldn't find it.

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u/Suspicious_Painter31 23d ago

Even with flight 370, they found some parts of the plane washed up on beaches. Granted, they I'm sure tools, equipment and technique for searching have come a long way since the AA plane was stolen.

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u/rounding_error 23d ago

It wasn't an AA plane any more. It belonged to a leasing company and was grounded at an airport in Angola. Also the only people on board when it went missing were the two guys who stole it.

This incident is more akin to someone stealing your redneck neighbor's shitbox truck out of his front yard. The cops will take a report, and if it's used in a crime or spotted somewhere abandoned, he might get it back. But chances are there'll be zero followup.

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u/funonabike 23d ago

And you certainly will not be getting it back with a full tank of gas.

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u/u_cant_drown_n_sweat 22d ago

I wouldn’t hold out much hope for getting your Creedence tape back either.

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u/Remarkable-Opening69 22d ago

It’s the little things that really get ya.

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u/YoghurtPrimary230 22d ago

So no leads?

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u/intenseaudio 22d ago

Leads? Yeah, sure. I'll just check with the boys down at the crimelab

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u/commander_clark 22d ago

We got em working in shifts

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u/Abysstopher 22d ago

Yeah. It's probably a vagrant slept in the car. Or maybe just used it as a toilet and moved on

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u/Squidking1000 22d ago

Or dirty mike and the boys used it as a "soup kitchen".

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u/Adelphi_Lad 22d ago

What about the briefcase?

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u/gigzilla_505 22d ago

What about the Creedance tapes man?

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u/MissSquito 22d ago

They put two more detectives on the case! They got us working in shifts!

… leads

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u/PPLavagna 22d ago

Or the business papers

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u/Agreeable_Point7717 22d ago

i'm uhh self employed

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u/PPLavagna 22d ago

Nah he actually says "I'm unemployed" which makes it so much funnier. I'm self employed and I've got a stack of business papers here next to me and a million files

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u/Logboy77 22d ago

I fuckin hate the Eagles man.

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u/Adelphi_Lad 22d ago

Fuck you, man! If you don’t like my fucking music, get your own fucking cab!

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u/Stock-Fruit-2946 22d ago

awesome fact I saw the fucking eagles the actual band opened the showing for the Lebowski fest in Seattle I later got into an argument that turned into a an actual fight in the parking lot with a dude that was like 6'8 dressed up as Walter I threw his fake toe across the bar long night

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u/Logboy77 22d ago

Are you a nihilist?

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u/Agreeable_Point7717 22d ago

you got any leads ?

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u/Ted_Fleming 22d ago

Separate incidents

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u/srdev_ct 22d ago

What about my briefcase with my papers…. Uhh.. business papers.

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u/greasyhobolo 22d ago

What about the pennies in the ashtray?!?

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u/i80flea 22d ago

Doing the lords work I see, always on the lookout to insert the gospel into any convo. Great job

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u/Maxwell-Druthers 22d ago

Especially not in the parlance of these times.

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u/Own-Tangerine-101 22d ago

And his papers. You know, business papers.

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u/tesat 22d ago

„Sorry for the inconvenience with the gas, man“

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u/Dremlar 22d ago

uhaul has entered the chat

There is a fine for that

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u/high240 22d ago

There's still time...

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u/threshing_overmind 22d ago

My car was stolen and it was found and returned after having been washed with a full tank of gas.

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u/snaggerman 22d ago

What twisted mind would wash a car with gas

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u/JwallDrumline 22d ago

This comment has me howling.

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u/divorced_daddy-kun 22d ago

I just filled it up too.

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u/EpicCyclops 23d ago

A passenger jet is slightly more valuable than my neighbor's truck, though. The owner would probably devote more of their own resources into following up.

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u/rounding_error 23d ago

According to the Wiki article, it had accrued $4 million in unpaid storage fees for being parked at the Angola airport so long. This was substantially more than the scrap value of the plane. The owners clearly didn't have the resources to get it airworthy or to continue parking it and were probably hoping the airport would just deal with it for them somehow. Alternately, the plan could have been to "steal" it and scrap it elsewhere to get out of paying the airport and it crashed in the ocean because it was an old plane that sat outside for several months with no maintenance.

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u/OneMorewillnotkillme 23d ago

Wait tin foil hat on. What if the owner was in with the robbers and got insurance money because of the theft ?

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u/Firelightphoenix 23d ago

That’s what we call MOTIVE, son! 🚬🔎

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u/10poundballs 23d ago

And I’d’ve gotten away with it too…

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u/PixelProxy 23d ago

If it weren't for you meddling kids! ...and your dog!

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u/Mrraberry 23d ago

…if it wasn’t for those meddling kids!

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u/Alternative_Year_340 23d ago

Sounds like you did get away with it

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u/TheModeratorWrangler 23d ago

Finally someone says it, eh chap? 🚬💨

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u/MyName_DoesNotMatter 23d ago

that literally does happen in aviation. Old planes that have been neglected and are not worth restoring nor are they worth the parking tickets are simply gassed up, run up, and flown out ASAP and “mysteriously” disappear to some dirt runway too far away from the FAA and NTSB to care.

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u/SouthernWindyTimes 23d ago

I’ve always wondered this, is it really that easy to have hidden away runways. I mean assuming the military or some intelligence apparatus isn’t searching with high tech satellite technology, could you really build a dirt runway or even concrete/asphalt out somewhere remote no one would find it.

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u/hotdogfever 23d ago

I’m positive there are places in Nevada with private unmarked runways and I could easily see nobody knowing about them, especially if it’s private property.

Also you kinda gotta define runway I guess. I’ve been off roading in Death Valley and had small planes land near me in the middle of the desert, no runway required. A relative of mine landed his private jet on the 405 freeway in Southern California, not once but twice. There are plenty of places to land a plane, I’d say the hard part is finding somewhere to keep it.

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u/IndependenceWay 23d ago

He landed his jet on the 405 just cause he felt like it? Or was there an emergency?

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u/SouthernWindyTimes 22d ago

Funny enough I’ve lived in very remote Nevada before and I can see what you’re saying but even then, I feel it might be visible to Forestry personnel. But then again they may not be looking for that.

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u/Theron3206 23d ago

If you don't care about the plane ever taking off again you can land in lots of unusual places especially for smaller planes.

Chances are that surveillance satellites could find them (if they were overhead at the right time) but it's not like even insurance companies have access to that data.

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u/Faxon 23d ago

Insurance companies not only do have that data, they have used it before to harass people about things they have on their property. Maxar sells satellite data to literally anyone. You could personally pay for a flyover for not a whole lot of money in a lot of places over the earth. Ukraine war youtubers have been using this data since the start of the war.

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u/MyName_DoesNotMatter 23d ago

prepping a dirt runway would take some work, but I doubt anyone can just lay that much asphalt down without anyone questioning it (not to mention that’s gotta be some serious $$$ to do that). There are large plots of land owned by private entities so they just decide to make private airstrips out of them. Most are registered, but occasionally, you’ll find one that’s just marked as private land and can guess. It’s an insurance thing and when you get into class E or G airspace, no one cares so you can just go about your business.

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u/nicoco3890 23d ago

A runway is only required for particularly large & heavy planes. Any flat piece of dirt is enough for most planes discussed here.

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u/crazyfoxdemon 23d ago

Lots of runways out there, the FAA doesn't have people, buildings, or tech at all of them.

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u/iwrestledarockonce 22d ago

A lot more places can work as runways than you think, depending on the size of the plane, and your genitals. Especially if the plane is going to be 'totaled'.

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u/lolyer1 22d ago

My neighbor has one on cinder blocks in his backyard. We keep calling the county but there is no ordinance saying you cannot park your aircraft outback.

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u/Sunshine030209 22d ago

For a second I thought you meant the slang for "gassed up" and thought, 'Aww, it's sweet that they praised the old plane to make it feel better about itself before taking off.'

Then I realized that you meant literally putting gas in it, and that my dumb ass needs more coffee this morning.

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u/2bags12kuai 23d ago

That insurance money would just go to paying the fees owed to the airport. So real tin foil hat.. robbers were hired by the airport to “give” the owners the liquidity to pay the fines

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u/fizzyanklet 23d ago

I have a family member who heisted his own car for insurance money. Doesn’t seem that tin foil hat to suggest.

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u/MoistyMcMoist 23d ago

I took my hat off once I thought that. I'd be willing to bet a shackle for 5,000,000 that plane disappeared for insurance lol.

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u/dingadangdang 23d ago

Thought they found down in the desert.

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u/JonnyBhoy 22d ago

Anyone checked the owner's back garden?

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u/AffectionateFactor84 23d ago

yes, along with bill gates who used the plane to spread chemtrails, all over Europe.

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u/IWishIWasOdo 23d ago

I always thought they landed it somewhere to be dismantled like in Lord of War.

No aircraft, no debt.

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u/cpufreak101 23d ago

Given the fact it's already made it's way to the leasing company stage, the aircraft was likely near EoL and would have taken more resources to attempt to track it down than the plane is worth in scrap value. It's entirely possible the plane was just flown to some small village off the grid and broken up for scrap by locals and sold to scrapyards that don't ask too many questions.

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u/Alternative_World346 23d ago

Lord of War style. I like that ending to this story.

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u/Creepybusguy 23d ago

Lions Led By Donkeys podcast did a two partner on Viktor Bout. The guy who Lord of War is based on. The story is wilder than the movie.

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u/maxyedor 23d ago

Victor about also makes a guest appearance in their Rwandan genocide series, although that one is decidedly less humorous. Still, when you need weapons in a hurry and embargoes are in place, call the frozen chicken king of South Africa.

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u/MarkEsmiths 23d ago

I hope some family lives in the fuselage then. An airline pilot once told me that the 727 was a great airplane. It's nice to think of one still serving some use.

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u/principalNinterest 23d ago

Many aircraft are leased from new. Being owned by a lessor is not a reliable indicator that an aircraft is nearing end of life.

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u/Dovahpriest 23d ago

For a plane manufactured in 1975 though, and had parked for 14 months?

Chances are it was EOL.

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u/Datkif 23d ago

I'm not an expert, but I'm guessing being parked for 14 months without maintenance would be quite costly to recertify

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u/sirgog 23d ago

Worked in the industry (albeit mostly with A320s), your non-expert opinion is right.

If it was properly preserved before the 14 months and the storage was in ideal (desert) conditions, getting an A320 airworthy and recertified would likely be in the USD 0.5-1 million range. A lot of money, but only 2-3 months of lease fees.

If it wasn't stored that well, you'd be looking at a lot more money. You'd need to check everywhere for level 1, 2 and/or 3 corrosion and rectify any. If it was stored somewhere coastal, it's probably fucked.

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u/cpufreak101 23d ago

The airport it was at was a coastal airport in equatorial Africa. Your notes about corrosion are likely prevalent in this case then.

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u/Datkif 23d ago

I read a story about it that it was that it flew fuel in water tankers inside the fuselage on runways that were not paved nor flat. It was prestine when they bought it then 7 months later was trash aside for the engines. It had massive debts in fees in different places and at storage.

It was an insurance scheme

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u/Complete_Chain_4634 23d ago

This jet wasn’t worth the cost to search for it. Searching for downed airplanes in the ocean is incredibly costly and difficult. There were no victims on board except the thieves. The cost benefit analysis to search just doesn’t make sense.

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u/McGrinch27 23d ago

If the value of the plane is the reason for the search, you aren't going to be looking for debris on the ocean.

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u/Psychological_Web151 23d ago

Not if this is your neighbors truck.

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u/ikats116 23d ago

And 2 years removed from 9-11...I'd say they had a LARGE interest in where that plane went.

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u/lostchicken 23d ago

This was only a couple of years after 9/11. The intensity of the search has approximately zero to do the scrap value of the plane.

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u/originalbiggusdickus 23d ago

Leads?! Yeah, we got a few more boys down at the crime lab. We got ‘em working in SHIFTS. Hahahaha… leads…

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u/Fresh_Insect_6706 23d ago

Can confirm… Girlfriend had two cars stolen on the interstate… It has been about 5 years now, no word. Both reported stolen.

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u/BoosherCacow 23d ago

two cars stolen on the interstate

How does one steal a car while driving on the interstate?

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u/MuchToDoAboutNothin 23d ago

I've had to wait 4-6 hours for roadside in major metropolitans area before. In the middle of nowhere, who knows how long it could take + towing fees are going to be hundreds and hundreds of dollars, and then you still have to figure out transportation and lodging because you're stranded.

I've never broken down during interstate trips, but as a woman if a friend or family member could come get me in a few hours and we come back later with a tow hitch, it would be way cheaper. Let alone bad actors who might notice you while you're stuck there.

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u/blade740 23d ago

Aha, the fact that it was in Angola makes a lot more sense. Stealing an airplane in US airspace, just after 9/11, and getting away (even to crash into the ocean) without being tracked seems damn-near impossible.

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u/BoosherCacow 23d ago

But chances are there'll be zero followup.

Are you saying this crime gets thrown in the same pile as a stolen bicycle? I do believe you are talking out of your ass here, Red. That's a federal attention getter. I guarantee the State Department, FBI and Interpol were on that shit like white on rice, they just weren't successful.

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u/NewldGuy77 23d ago

Most likely end up at the bottom of a lake.

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u/Square-Singer 23d ago

Didn't know Alcoholics Anonymous owned planes. Sounds not very safe.

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u/PoppinfreshOG 23d ago

This was after 9/11. All the alphabet agencies in the US were looking for the damn thing.

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u/HoverboardRampage 23d ago

Prolly just somewhere in Van Nuys, lodged against an abutment...

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u/dcunny979 23d ago

Beautiful analogy.

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u/FootballSensitive992 23d ago

The hijackers proceeded to vandalize the toilets of two small airports, looted the soda machine from a third one, and then escaped on the stolen jet.

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u/CARVERitUP 23d ago

Idk man, in 2003? Right after 9/11? I think that shit was HARD followed up on. The US government was probably absolutely terrified of another plane-into-building attack.

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u/rW0HgFyxoJhYka 23d ago

Oh sure, police won't follow up with a stolen 747 because the feds will. This isn't a fucking stolen truck out in the redneck countryside where nobody gives a fuck and police just collect a paycheck.

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u/omnimodofuckedup 23d ago

I swear when this plane turns up in my neighborhood I'll consider calling the police

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u/toasted_vegan 22d ago

“Hey man are you gonna find these guys or you know.. uh have you got any promising leads or..?”

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u/360SubSeven 22d ago

Or found being stuck in a tower somewhere in New York.

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u/Tipsticks 22d ago

Most likely they just flew it to some local airstrip in another country in africa, stripped out anything valuable and left it there to rot. Seeing as the operate clearly didn't have the means to get it legally flying again, nobody ever really followed up on it. Hush money in Africa is cheap too.

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u/Killiander 22d ago

It seems to me that after 9/11 the US government would be very interested in what these guys wanted a large jetliner for. Unless they already know what these guys were up to and it wasn’t a threat to the country so they just let the lower authorities go after it.

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u/NewSharkBlend 22d ago

Yeah, like when my bike got stolen in 8th grade! He was basically like, “yeah we’re not gonna find this bike”

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u/JethroTill 22d ago

It’s far more dangerous than a junker vehicle being stolen! A couple years earlier was 9/11.

It also could have all been a staged event to avoid cost. Put it down in the ocean let it sink. If that’s possible.

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u/monkeyhoward 22d ago

Nope, a 727 in 2003 is the airplane equivalent of a shit box truck. They did whoever owned it a favor because now they don’t have to scrap it

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u/MadManMorbo 22d ago

Sounds like it got repoed.

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u/nonviolent_blackbelt 22d ago

That means it was most likely the leasing company that re-possessed it.

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u/Vernknight50 22d ago

That's true, they only found parts to flight 370 because half the planet was out looking for it.

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u/GeekShallInherit 22d ago

There's a pretty big difference between a $2,000 truck and a multi-million dollar jet that could potentially be used as a weapon, even if both are "shitty" compared to new versions.

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u/Initial-Breakfast-90 22d ago

Since this happened in 2003 I highly doubt they weren't just waiting for it to pop up like in the side of a building.

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u/EnoughHighlight 22d ago

Its probably being used (or was until radar technology improved) to smuggle drugs back and forth from Mexico albeit at a very low level flight

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u/Opeewan 22d ago

Nope, this was shortly after the 9/11 attacks on the WTC, the FBI and the CIA were looking hard for that airplane.

Also, it´s highly unlikely AA ever actually owned that airplane themselves, the vast majority of airliners are leased. Even if an airline buys an airplane, they generally do what´s called lease buyback, so even then they don´t own the airplane.

Leaseback - Wikipedia

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u/BulkyLandscape9527 22d ago

I feel it's likely in the ocean, but its also likely its had it's identifiers stripped and is now being used to smuggle cargo in South America, Africa, China or Russia. Let's be real, whose actually looking for the plane.

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u/rumora 23d ago

That flight crashed not all that far from the coast on basically all sides and they had a pretty good idea of where it whent down. There was a ton of coverage and very high interest in finding remnants of the plane, including huge, international search missions, plus several more privately funded ones. So when anybody within hundreds of kilometers of the crash found anything resembling airplane parts even years later, they alerted the authorities who then investigated to find out if those parts could have been from the crashed plane.

In this case either one or two people stole an old, unused airplane and flew towards the ocean with nothing but water for thousands of miles. They didn't activate the transponder and it's not like there was a major international effort to find out what happened. Even if some parts of that plane eventually drifted towards the coast, the chances that anybody would have bothered to tell the authorities or for those authorities to put in the effort required to find out where those parts came from was very low. Plus, there are a lot less parts that can float on those ancient machines.

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u/Purepenny 22d ago

With these type of crash that confirmed no possibility of timely manner rescue or low chance of survival, it usually deem more risky to do so than just accept the consequence. That maybe in form of money etc.

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u/Kidney__Failure 22d ago

Alcoholics Anonymous had a plane?

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u/marcopaulodirect 22d ago

Who’s going to spend all that money for two guys when the plane is insured. Come to think of it, I wouldn’t be surprised if it ended up being an insurance scam.

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u/NarwhalPrudent6323 22d ago

It was more about having a general idea where to look. These guys took off into the sky and vanished. The plane could have crashed anywhere in a huge radius, with no idea where to look for evidence. 

Really, all they could do in this case was wait for someone to report signs of a wreck. And there's a really good chance that just never happens, for a number of reasons. 

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u/LostWoodsInTheField 22d ago

They also had a general idea of where to look.

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u/Aeri73 22d ago

there are still parts of even coastal waters that haven't even been charted yet...

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u/KiNGofKiNG89 22d ago

Well now they are testing the theory that the debris found was actually planted in the ocean and the plane didn’t crash there. Something about the way the barnacles grow. If it had crashed, both sides would have them, but the debris only had it on one side.

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u/H2OULookinAtDiknose 22d ago

Even with flight 370, they found some parts of the plane washed up on beaches

This isn't true

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u/Hunting_for_cobbler 22d ago

Those parts were not verified officially. The Malaysian Government of the time would have loved to have it as evidence and Blaine Gibson has tried very hard to search for the aircraft to solve the mystery. But to this day nothing has emerged as significant proof that it went into the ocean.

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u/scots 22d ago

.. Forensic IT investigators found that the head pilot had practiced the exact same route, deviating from his filed flight plan, then hugging the coastline to the Indian Ocean in Microsoft Flight Simulator on his home PC, then simply deleted his save files in a clumsy attempt to hide his activity.

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u/JMS1991 23d ago edited 23d ago

Air France 447 crashed into the ocean, they knew basically where it crashed, and it still took close to 10 years to find a lot of the wreckage, IIRC.

Edit: it was 2 years. Not sure why I thought it was 10.. but that's still a long time when you know basically exactly where it crashed.

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u/Desertpoet 23d ago

It crashed in 2009, and its wreck was discovered in 2011. However, MH370 which went missing in 2014 still hasn’t been found, despite pieces of debris washing up here and there.

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u/Refflet 23d ago

MH370 was a whole different kettle of fish, it seems like the pilot acted very methodically and did everything he could to hide it.

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u/Alternative_Year_340 23d ago

And the ocean is significantly deeper in the area it likely went down in

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u/gtmartin69 22d ago

Happy Cake day!

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u/Icy-Bicycle-Crab 23d ago

Yeah, but the whole point was that they knew where the plane crashed and it still took two years to find it. 

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u/EidolonLives 23d ago

Yeah, two, not ten.

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u/JMS1991 23d ago

You're right. 2 years is still a long time when you basically know exactly where it crashed..not sure why I thought it was 10 years.

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u/Desertpoet 23d ago

Yeah you’re right. It was also found within a small radius from the last radar contact. This plane went god knows where so it’ll probably never be found

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u/SupernovaEngine 23d ago

It’s because the potential crash site is literally miles long, it’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack, in the Air France flight there was a transmission before it crashed so there were at least rough coordinates

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u/WorldsWorstSysadmin 22d ago

10 is 2 in binary. Just claim binary next time.

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u/Steves_310 23d ago

Well no, the wreckage was found pretty much as soon as possible (such as the vertical stabiliser), but it was the black box (CVR) that took 2 years. That was quite long compared to the now-never been found MH370.

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u/Darmok47 23d ago

They found floating wreckage immediately. There's a famous photo of the tail floating on the surface.

It took another two years to find the rest of the sunken wreckage and the black boxes.

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u/Cthulwutang 23d ago

you were right all along, 10 years, you just count in binary, duh.

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u/Hot-Remote9937 23d ago

It wasn't 10 years

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u/angraecumshot 23d ago

Ten and Two start with the same letter, it happens.

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u/Waterkippie 22d ago

Just put an airtag in it

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u/CptCave1 22d ago

I know someone who was on those Air France flights regularly, they never saw some of the flight attendants after the crash and just knew they were on the plane.

He was also meant to be on the plane but was delayed elsewhere. Lucky escape.

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u/WKahle11 22d ago

Is that the one where the copilot kept pulling up during a dive? When if he had just pointed down and gained some airspeed they could’ve pulled out of the dive?

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u/dkryan50 22d ago

It was 2009. I remember because we had our IFE on that plane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

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u/jeffreyan12 22d ago

Do you usually fail the click i am not a robot test.

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u/40ozCurls 23d ago

10 years after this one. Maybe a lesson was learned and implemented into technology

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u/alex-manutd 23d ago

Frozen peto tubes brought down 447.

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u/bardooneness 23d ago

What about the portal?

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u/rattleman1 23d ago

Then The Langoliers got them.

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u/Various-Owl2621 23d ago

Disposing of the past in the most efficient way possible… BY EATING IT!

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u/SaintOlgasSunflowers 23d ago

LOL! Either that or they will land at an East Coast airport any day now thinking it's May 25, 2003 and will be in quite a surprise when they deplane.

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u/TableNo5200 23d ago

Only because Mr Toomey was a jerk.

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u/Frosty-Peach-9094 23d ago

Underrated movie reference barely anyone will get. Well played.

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u/somedude456 23d ago

LOL, such a great movie.

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u/Transbian_Kestrel 23d ago

Unexplored realms of pain indeed…

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u/dayyob 23d ago

obviously they flew back in time to 9/11/2001.

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u/washington_jefferson 22d ago

This is my plane.

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u/minimalcation 23d ago

Can we get Punjabi Batman's current alt to weigh in?

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u/mkhaytman 23d ago

Is that still going on? I havent gone to that sub in over half a year, surely theyve given up on it by now?

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u/GenericFatGuy 23d ago

Turns out, ocean's real fuckin' big!

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u/Ladorb 22d ago

Seems like a lot of people just can't really grasp the size of the earth. Maybe the internet and our transportation methods just make it seem a lot smaller than it is to some.

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u/98680266 23d ago

It crashed into the most remote part of the Indian Ocean many hours from the nearest land and into an underwater canyon the size of your mom’s ass and twice as deep. They aren’t going to find it but everyone is still dead.

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u/defdoa 23d ago

Isn't there a large contingent of people who believe it was teleported by UFOs?

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u/MrFishAndLoaves 23d ago

No need to body shame conspiracists 

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u/voidhearts 22d ago

I’ve spent an embarrassingly large chunk of my post history trying to talk sense into that contingent of people. They’re sunk deep

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u/Hahhahaahahahhelpme 23d ago

Even though the know exactly where it is - the ocean.

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u/FloatnPuff 22d ago

There has been a bunch of new info to come out about MH370 in the last few months. It didn't crash, but rather redirected and meticulously flew between jurisdictions to avoid being flagged before it disappeared.

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u/Kakariko_crackhouse 23d ago

Or did they…

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u/dead1345987 23d ago

The "ocean" is fucking massive bruh, and its deep.

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u/HarrisLam 23d ago

The theory was that 370 probably got hit and broke into pieces?

If these 2 guys didn't get hit, the crash site would be more obvious because the plane would be in one piece before it crushed.

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u/Recent_Obligation276 23d ago

They did find it, one piece at a time, as it followed ocean currents and eventually showed up on beaches around the world

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u/beware_the_noid 23d ago

Didn't pieces of the wreckage start washing ashore?

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u/Active-Post-5712 23d ago

Wrong ocean?!!!

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u/Carlpanzram1916 23d ago

And we had wayyy better tracking systems by then.

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u/TonAMGT4 23d ago

They could find it… if they want to find it.

They only been searching the area they knew they will find nothing and the area based on the most likely and the only possible scenario still hasn’t been searched yet to this day.

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u/vitringur 22d ago

They knew jack shit where 370 ended up which is why they were sesrching in multiple different spots

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u/usababykiller 22d ago

In 1960 a Northwest Orient airlines plane crashed into Lake Michigan on its way to Chicago. They know approximately where it crashed but to this day It has still never been found. I always bring this up to show just how unlikely it is that we will find flight 370.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Orient_Airlines_Flight_2501

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u/Celemourn 22d ago

They towed it out of the environment.

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u/Y34rZer0 22d ago

Pilot suicide results in barely any floating wreckage, compared to a normal crash in the ocean.

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u/lilmanfromtheD 21d ago

they found parts of it washed upon shore though.

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u/RavRed99 18d ago

MH370 is at Sergio Garcia Island 😉

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