The enigma of the plane that took off in New York and landed 37 years later in Venezuela

Time travel is recurring in science fiction films, but there is a very little known story involving a great mystery. An airplane, which departed from New York obliged to You love me, landed 37 years later in Caracas, Venezuela. The journey, which was supposed to last 3 hours, never arrived at its destination.

This story began in 1955, when Flight 914’s Pan American World Airways, which was heading towards the city of the sun, mysteriously disappeared without a trace. To everyone’s surprise, 37 years after the face of the earth disappeared, according to the agency AFP extensionwas captured in 1992 in Venezuela by an air traffic controller named Juan de la Corte, when the man had a brief conversation with the pilot and then he, along with the plane, disappeared again.

The legend of Pan American Flight 914 flew 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?.

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 on board, the aircraft experienced no problems and, with clear weather in the air, had agreed to reach its destination in around 3 hours.

Everything was going relatively well, but after a while the aircraft signal disappeared. It looked like another plane crash, and the logical thing to think was that it had crashed somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.

The authorities of United States of America They searched for months for the wreckage or any trace of the plane with no luck. The families of the 61 people on board were informed of the worst news and received financial compensation from the airline, according to El Medio. Daily point.

But in September 1992, an air traffic controller from Venezuelacalled John of the Court, he realized that a plane had appeared on radar out of nowhere, with no explanation. The man thought it was a mistake.

After a while, he saw the ship up close and as it became more visible he became aware of it it was a McDonnell Douglas DS4 with propellers. This all seemed very strange, as it was a very old flight system.

According to the aforementioned release, Juan de la Corte contacted the pilot of the plane and told him that his flight was due to land at the Miami airport at 9:45 in the morning on July 2, 1955. At that moment the control tower was completely silent.

They thought it was a mistake of 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 said to the pilot: “You know today is May 21, 1992”, but the aircraft commander reacted very badly and without waiting for authorization he guided the aircraft onto the runway, landed and a few minutes later took off and disappeared from radartraces of that plane have never been found and still today no one can explain what happened that morning at the airport Caracas.

Science Fiction on Netflix

The story of Pan Am Flight 914 was remembered in the series of Netflix“Manifest”. The fiction is centered on the story of some passengers and crew of Montero Air flight 828 Jamaica a New Yorkthat after spending just over three hours on the plane, upon landing they discover that they have been missing for more than five years and that the world had reported them missing.

The characters in this story get 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 unravels, one that could mean something bigger than they realize.

This year will debut the fourth and final season of this story that has remained the number 1 on the streaming platform in Argentina and is inspired by a True story?.

From then until today, flight remains an enigma, full of theories. The truth is that the legend of Flight 914 has come to light again thanks to the series and is, without a doubt, one of the greatest unsolved mysteries. Or a big farce?