Video LOST And MISSING Aircraft Found

There have been thousands of crashes and accidents since planes hit the scene, and most of the time those wrecks are found quickly. Then there are those flights that disappear without a trace, the ones that just seem to go missing and no one knows what happens to them. Such is the case for the planes on this list, although they have now been found and we know, for the most part, what happened to them. Come, follow me through this list of Lost and Missing Aircraft Found.

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5. Glacier Girl
Back on July 15, 1942, a whole bunch of planes, like an entire squadron consisting of six P-38’s and two B-17 bombers, took off from Maine and flew toward England. At some point, bad weather and the cold caused crews aboard the planes to lose their bearings over Greenland, and a landing was forced when fuel levels became direly low. They landed on the Greenland ice sheet and waited things out until supplies were dropped three days later, and eventually, the crewmen were rescued from the ice and cold. The planes, however, were left behind and were buried in snow and ice in the following years. In 1988, sub-surface radar picked the aircraft up two miles from where they were originally left in 1942 and 268 feet deep inside a glacier. Operations began to retrieve the planes in 1992, and after four months and thanks to a lot of hot water, a P-38 was brought out of the ice in pieces and was eventually restored in Middlesboro, Kentucky. The plane was dubbed the “Glacier Girl,” (which you can see in these pictures) and following her restoration… she flew again in 2001!

4. Steve Fossett
Steve Fossett, a well-known businessman and adventurer, known for holding a bunch of world records in ballooning, sailing, and in gliders, amongst others. This guy was basically a daredevil, so it’s no surprise that one of his ventures is what ended up bringing about his demise. On September 3, 2007, Fossett and his single-engine Bellanca Super Decathlon plane went missing over the Nevada desert. A giant manhunt took place and Google even aided in the search by providing satellite imagery through their Google Earth program, but still, there was no sign of Steve. A year later, in September of 2008, the crash site (seen here) was found in the Sierra Nevadas after a hiker found three ID cards that were in bad shape, as well as $1,005 in cash, which he reported. Downdrafts were eventually stated as the cause of the crash.

3. Lady B. Good
This United States Air Force plane disappeared during the Second World War on its very first combat mission and was believed to have been lost, along with its nine-man crew. It successfully carried out a bombing raid on Naples on April 4, 1943, and was thought to have gone down in the Mediterranean Sea on its way back to its base in Libya. Then, on November 9, 1968, the wreckage of the plane was found in the Libyan Desert by a team searching for oil from British Petroleum. The belief is that the first-time crew somehow failed to realize that they had passed over their base already due to a sandstorm blocking visuals, and they kept flying over the desert for many hours. Eventually, the plane ran out of fuel, and the nine-man crew bailed out and tried to walk their way to safety. Eight of the nine survived the jump, and according to a diary belonging to co-pilot Robert Toner, that was found in 1959, the survivors walked 85 miles before five gave up and three went on. Eventually, the remaining three perished as well, and all eight of their bodies have been recovered. Only Vernon L. Moore, the crew's gunner, remains missing.

2. The Maid of Harlech
A plane that crashed off of the coast of Wales way back in 1942 resurfaced in 2007 after being buried under sands and waves for 65 years. Dubbed the “Maid of Harlech,” the discovery of this fighter plane from the Second World War has been called “one of the most important WWII finds in recent history.” The plane was taking part in training exercises when its engines cut out, causing it to go down on the Gwynedd coast. Amazingly, the pilot of the craft, Lt. Robert Elliot, survived and walked away completely unharmed, but the plane stayed missing for decades. Shifting water moved sands and revealed the undetected plane suddenly, just off of a Wales beach. The exact location of the craft was and still is, kept a secret to preserve the amazing find. It’s possible that the plane could stay where it is and become a “scheduled ancient monument” because it looks as though it would be too dangerous to pull it from the seas and move it.

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