We thought that we would list what we consider the Top Missing Aircraft of the World. 

The discovery of the location of anyone of these missing aircraft would probably make headlines around the world and hopefully answer a number of unanswered questions.

 Here they are, listed in the order in which they happened.

1. Charles Nungesser & François Coli - Atlantic Ocean / Canada / Maine - 1927

2. Charles Kingsford-Smith - Over the Andaman Sea - 1935

3. Amelia Earhart - Over the South Pacific - 1937

4. Sigismund Levanevsky - Arctic Ocean / northern Alaska - 1937

5. Andrew Carnegie Whitfield - Over Long Island Sound, New York - 1938

6. Hawaii Clipper - Over the Pacific Ocean - 1938

7. Amy Johnson - In the English Channel - 1941

8. Glenn Miller - Over the English Channel - 1944

9. Navy Flight 19 - Off the Florida Coast - 1945

10. DC-3 NC16002 - Within sight of Miami Airport - 1948

11. USAF C-54 #2469 - Near the Alaska/Yukon border - 1950

12. Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 - Over Lake Michigan - 1950

13. "The Kinross Incident" F-89 - Over Lake Superior - 1953

14. USAF B-25 #44-29125 - In the Monongahela River, PA - 1956

15. 'Broken Arrow' B-47 - Near the Mediterranean Sea - 1956

16. Camilo Cienfuegos - Over Cuba - 1959

17. Dragonfly ZK-AFB - Over South Island, New Zealand - 1962

18. "The High and the Mighty" DC-4 N4726V - Over the Pacific Ocean - 1964

19. 'Rivet Amber' - In the Bering Sea, near Alaska -1969

20. 'ARIA 331' - In the Pacific Ocean, south of Hawaii - 1971

21. Hales Boggs - Over southeastern Alaska - 1972

22. Argosy Airlines Flight #902 - Near Havana, Cuba - 1978

23. Frederick Valentich - Off the Australia coast -1978

24. Ian Mackintosh - Near Kodiak Island, Alaska - 1979

25. Korean Air Lines Flight 007 - Over the Sea of Japan - 1983

26. George Cogar -Over the British Columbia coastal mountains - 1983

27. Art Scholl - Off the southern California coast - 1985

28. FOUND 02 OCT 2008 - Steve Fossett - Over the Sierra Nevada - 2007

 

If there are any you feel should be added to the list please email us.

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