List of missing commercial aircraft

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The list of missing commercial aircraft includes flight accidents in which no traces of the aircraft or its occupants have so far been found, as well as those in which the aircraft is still officially missing despite the found debris. Only missing commercial aircraft from civil airlines are taken into account . Incidents involving military aircraft , business aircraft and small private aircraft are not included in the list.

The appendix "Formerly missing commercial aircraft" lists those wrecks that have been found in the meantime, but were previously missing for about 7–54 years.

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Corresponding aircraft accidents are listed below in tabular form. Lines with a darker background color indicate those accidents that are dealt with in separate articles.

The table is sorted and sortable according to the time of the accident. It contains about 34 crashes. (As of December 23, 2019)

date airline Aircraft type Inmates region information
11/21/1930 Società Anonima Navigazione Aerea Dornier whale 6th Mediterranean Sea The plane crashed near the Cap de Creus on the route from Barcelona to Marseille .
07/28/1938 Pan American Airways Martin M-130 15th Pacific Ocean The machine was on a scheduled flight from Guam to Manila .
03/01/1940 Imperial Airways Handley Page HP42 8th Indian Ocean The plane that took off in Pakistan was lost in the Gulf of Oman .
02/21/1944 German Lufthansa Junkers Ju 52 / 3m 16 Mediterranean Sea The plane crashed between Thessaloniki and Athens .
See: Crash of the Ju-52 "Joachim Blankenburg" in 1944
03/23/1946 Qantas Avro Lancastrian 10 Indian Ocean The plane leased from British Overseas Airways Corporation disappeared on a scheduled flight to Australia between Sri Lanka and the Cocos Islands .
01/30/1948 British South American Airways Avro Tudor 31 Atlantic Ocean The machine was on a scheduled flight from London to Bermuda
See: Disappearance of the Star Tiger .
08/01/1948 Air France Latécoère 631 52 Atlantic Ocean The six-engine flying boat had an accident on the flight from Fort-de-France ( Martinique ) to Port Etienne, probably around 1900 kilometers west of Dakar ( Senegal ).
October 12, 1948 Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-12 10 Caucasus The plane disappeared during a flight from Baku to Tbilisi .
04/11/1948 Pacific Alaska Air Express Douglas DC-3 17th Pacific Ocean The machine completed a charter flight from Anchorage to Seattle with several stopovers. It got lost between Yakutat and Annette Island .
12/28/1948 Airborne transportation Douglas DC-3 32 Gulf of Mexico The plane that started in San Juan disappeared shortly before its destination Miami . Unconfirmed reports suggest that two bodies have been discovered from the missing DC-3 south of Cuba .
See: Disappearance of the Douglas DC-3 NC16002
January 17, 1949 British South American Airways Avro Tudor 20th Atlantic Ocean The Avro Tudor disappeared on the leg from Bermuda to Jamaica .
See: Disappearance of the Star Ariel
07/21/1951 Canadian Pacific Air Lines Douglas DC-4 37 Pacific Ocean The plane probably had an accident near Sitka ( Alaska ) on the route from Vancouver to Anchorage .
02/02/1953 Skyways Avro York 39 Atlantic Ocean The aircraft of the British Skyways disappeared about 500 kilometers east of Newfoundland ( Canada ).
09/14/1955 AVENSA Curtiss C-46 4th Atlantic Ocean The plane crashed off the coast of Venezuela .
29.09.1958 Middle East Airlines Avro York 5 Mediterranean Sea The cargo plane disappeared on the route from Beirut to Rome .
11/09/1958 ARTOP Linhas Aéreas Martin PBM 36 Atlantic Ocean The machine of the Portuguese ARTOP probably had an accident about 250 kilometers southwest of Lisbon .
See: ARTOP flight 531
07/10/1960 Gulf Aviation Douglas DC-3 16 Persian Gulf The machine was on a flight from Doha to Sharjah .
02/03/1961 Garuda Indonesia Douglas DC-3 26th Java lake The plane crashed off the coast of Pulau Madura ( Indonesia ).
March 16, 1962 Flying Tiger Line Lockheed L-1049 107 Pacific Ocean The plane disappeared between Guam and the Philippines in the Pacific . The crew of a ship stated that the machine exploded in flight.
See: Flying Tiger Line flight 7815/13
03/09/1969 Continental Air Transport Douglas DC-4 3 Atlantic Ocean The machine disappeared on a flight from the Azores to Halifax .
10/11/1969 San Juan Air Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander 2 Caribbean The plane crashed on the leg from Inagua ( Bahamas ) to San Juan (Puerto Rico) .
December 31, 1970 Rousseau Aviation North 262 30th Mediterranean Sea The machine disappeared between Algiers and the Spanish airport of Menorca after the crew sent an emergency call about 100 kilometers north of the Algerian coast.
02/11/1972 Royal Air Lao Douglas DC-4 / C-54 23 Laos The plane was probably shot down on the scheduled flight from Savannakhet to Vientiane .
07/20/1972 Aerotransportes Entre Rios Canadair CL-44 6th To the The machine was on a cargo flight from Montevideo ( Uruguay ) to Santiago de Chile . Shortly before the last radar contact, she had flown into Chilean airspace near Las Cuevas (Mendoza) .
08/28/1976 Aeronaves del Peru Canadair CL-44 6th To the The machine was on a cargo flight from Lima ( Peru ) to Caracas ( Venezuela ). She never arrived at her destination and was declared missing. It is believed that the machine had an accident in a mountainous and forested area near the Shanisu River, about 400 kilometers north of Lima. The wreck could never be located.
09/16/1976 Aerosucre Curtiss C-46 2 Caribbean The cargo plane was lost on a flight from Barranquilla ( Colombia ) to Aruba . The scene of the accident is believed to be off the coast of Aruba.
10/22/1978 Solomon Islands Airlines Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander 11 Solomon Lake The plane crashed because of lack of fuel near Bellona , after the flight captain had probably lost his orientation.
01/30/1979 VARIG Boeing 707 6th Pacific Ocean The plane was on a cargo flight from Tokyo to Los Angeles .
See: VARIG flight 967
09/02/1983 Central Mountain Air Services Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander 7th British Columbia The plane, whose passengers were traveling on a hunting tour, disappeared in flight near Smithers, British Columbia in western Canada.
08/04/1986 LIAT de Havilland Canada DHC-6 13 Atlantic Ocean The plane crashed off the coast of St. Lucia after two failed attempts to land at Hewanorra International Airport .
08/25/1989 Pakistan International Airlines, PIA Fokker F-27 54 Himalayas The machine disappeared shortly after taking off from Gilgit for Islamabad . The plane may have hit a mountain.
09/11/1990 Faucett Perú Boeing 727 16 Atlantic Ocean The Boeing 727 previously leased to Air Malta was to be transferred back to Peru . The plane crashed about 290 kilometers southeast of Newfoundland , probably due to a lack of fuel.
See: Disappearance of a Boeing 727 from Faucett Perú
10/25/1991 Bali International Air Service Britten-Norman Trislander 17th Borneo The machine was lost while it was in a weather-related hold over Sampit, Indonesia.
01/31/1993 Pan Malaysian Air Transport Short Skyvan 14th Sumatra The machine disappeared on a flight from Banda Aceh to Medan (Indonesia). The scene of the accident is suspected to be in a wooded mountain region.
01/10/1995 Merpati Nusantara Airlines de Havilland Canada DHC-6 14th Selat Molo The machine disappeared in bad weather on a flight from Bima to Ruteng over the Selat Molo strait, about one kilometer wide, between the islands of Rinca and Flores (Indonesia).
05/25/2003 TAAG Angola Airlines Boeing 727 at least 1 Africa The Boeing 727, which had been parked in Luanda for 14 months , was stolen. The plane has not been seen since taking off from Luanda Airport .
See: Disappearance of the Boeing 727 N844AA
December 15, 2008 Línea Aérea Puertorriqueña Britten-Norman Trislander 12 Turks and Caicos Islands The machine was on a charter flight from Santiago de los Caballeros to Mayaguana . The captain sent a distress call before the plane disappeared near the Turks and Caicos Islands.
03/08/2014 Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 239 Indian Ocean According to satellite data , the aircraft that took off in Kuala Lumpur flew into the area of ​​the southern Indian Ocean and probably crashed there. The circumstances could not be clarified despite a search lasting several years, which was discontinued on January 17, 2017.
See: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
12/28/2014 Air Services Limited Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander 2 Guyana The plane that took off from Mahdia disappeared on a cargo flight for unknown reasons. The search was discontinued on January 19, 2015.

Formerly missing commercial aircraft

The list is sorted chronologically according to the date of the accident.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Accident report Dornier Wal I-RONY , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 6, 2018.
  2. ^ Accident report Martin M-130 NC14714 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 6, 2018.
  3. ↑ accident report HP42 G-AAGX , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 6 2018th
  4. ^ Accident report Avro Lancastrian G-AGLX , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 6, 2018.
  5. ^ Accident report Avro Tudor G-AHNP , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 6, 2018.
  6. ↑ Air-Britain Archive: Casualty compendium part 47 (English), December 1992, p. 110.
  7. ↑ Airdisaster.ru, October 12, 1948
  8. ↑ Accident report IL-12 CCCP-L1450 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 6, 2018.
  9. ^ Aviation Safety Network, DC-3 NC66637, November 4, 1948
  10. ^ Accident report Avro Tudor G-AGRE , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 6, 2018.
  11. ↑ Air-Britain Archive: Casualty compendium part 53 (English), June 1994, pp. 94/53.
  12. ^ Accident report DC-4 CF-CPC , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 26, 2017.
  13. ^ Aviation Safety Network, Avro York G-AHFA, February 2, 1953
  14. ^ Accident report C-46 YV-C-EVL , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 6, 2018.
  15. ^ Accident report Avro York OD-ADB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 6, 2018.
  16. ^ Accident report DC-3 VT-DGS , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 10, 2019.
  17. ^ Aviation Safety Network, DC-3 PK-GDY February 3, 1961
  18. ^ Aviation Safety Network, Douglas DC-4, N3821, March 9, 1969
  19. ^ Aviation Safety Network, Britten-Norman Islander, N852JA, October 11, 1969
  20. ^ Accident report North 262 F-BNGB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 13, 2018.
  21. ^ Aviation Safety Network, DC-4 XW-TDE, February 11, 1972
  22. ^ Aviation Safety Network, Canadair CL-44, LV-JYR, July 20, 1972
  23. ^ Aviation Safety Network, Canadair CL-44, OB-R-1104, August 28, 1976
  24. ^ Aviation Safety Network, Curtiss C-46, HK-1282, September 16, 1976
  25. ↑ Accident report BN-2 Islander H4-AAC , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 6, 2018.
  26. ^ Accident report BN-2 Islander C-GIPF , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 12, 2018.
  27. ^ The Doe Network: Case File 1683DMBC. Retrieved August 11, 2018 .
  28. ^ Accident report DHC-6 V2-LCJ , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 6, 2018.
  29. ^ Accident report F-27-200 AP-BBF , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 6, 2018.
  30. ^ Accident report B-727-200 OB-1303 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 6, 2018.
  31. ^ Accident report BN-2 Trislander PK-KTC , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 6, 2018.
  32. ^ Accident report Sh. Skyvan 9M-PID , Aviation Safety Network , accessed November 6, 2018.
  33. ^ Accident report DHC-6 PK-NUK , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 6, 2018.
  34. ^ Accident report BN-2 Trislander N650LP , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 6, 2018.
  35. ↑ Flight review, search for MH370 finished
  36. ^ Accident report BN-2 Islander 8R-GHE , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 6, 2018.
  37. ^ Accident report Lodestar, CF-TDF Aviation Safety Network , accessed on April 7, 2019.