Time travel is recurring in science fiction movies, but there is a very little known story that involves a very big mystery. An airplane, which left from NY with destiny a Miami, landed 37 years later in Caracas, Venezuela. The trip, which was supposed to last 3 hours, never reached its destination.
This story began in 1955, when Flight 914 of Pan American World Airways, who was heading to the city of the sun, mysteriously disappeared without leaving any trace. To everyone’s surprise, 37 years after the face of the earth vanished, according to the agency AFPwas captured in 1992 in Venezuela by a flight controller named Juan de la Corte, when the man had a short conversation with the pilot and then he, along with the aircraft, disappeared again.
The legend of Pan American Flight 914 went around the world and became visible with the series of Netflix “Manifest”. The fiction, in part, was inspired by the disappearance of the aforementioned plane. Myth or Reality?.
A United States newspaper with the news of the disappearance of flight 914.
The legend of flight 914
On June 2, 1955, Pan Am Flight 914 took off from John F. Kennedy Airport bound for Miami. With 57 passengers and 4 crew members on board, the plane had no problems and, with good weather in the air, it had agreed to reach its destination in approximately 3 hours.
Everything was going relatively well, but after a while the signal from the aircraft disappeared. It seemed like another plane crash, and the logical thing to do was to think that it had crashed somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.
The authorities of USA They searched for months for the wreckage or any trace of the plane without any luck. The families of the 61 people on board were notified of the worst news and received financial compensation from the airline, according to El Medio. Daily Dot.
But in September 1992, an air traffic controller from Venezuelacalled John of the Court, he realized that a plane had appeared on the radar out of nowhere, without any explanation. The man thought it was a mistake.
After a while, he saw the ship from up close and as it became more visible he realized that era a McDonnell Douglas DS4 con propellers. It all seemed very strange, since it was a very old flight system.
According to the aforementioned outlet, Juan de la Corte contacted the pilot of the aircraft and he told him that his flight was scheduled to land at the Miami airport at 9:45 in the morning on July 2, 1955. In At that moment the control tower was completely silent.
Flight 914 was headed from New York to Miami.
They thought it was a mistake by the captain and -immediately- the control tower cleared the runway for the plane to land, the plane had no problem touching Venezuelan soil.
According to World NewsJuan told the pilot: “You know that today is May 21, 1992”, but the captain of the aircraft reacted very badly and without waiting for the authorization drove the plane onto the runway, landed and minutes later took off and disappeared from radarno traces of that plane were ever found and to this day no one can explain what happened that morning at the airport in Caracas.
Fiction on Netflix
The story of Pan Am Flight 914 was remembered in the series of Netflix“Manifest”. The fiction focuses on the story of some passengers and a crew of Montero Air flight 828 from Jamaica a NYwho after spending a little more than three hours on the plane, discover upon landing that they had disappeared for more than five years and the world had given them up as missing.
The characters in this story have a second chance and will try to rebuild their lives while being watched by the Government. However, as they clarify their new realities, a deeper mystery unfolds, one that may mean something bigger than they realize.
Image of a scene from the Netflix series “Manifesto”.
This year will premiere the fourth and final season of this story that remained number 1 on the streaming platform in Argentina and is inspired by a True story?.
From then until today, the flight remains an enigma, full of theories. The truth is that the legend of Flight 914 came to light again thanks to the series and it is, without a doubt, one of the biggest unsolved mysteries. Or a big farce?
