Had to fact-check it. These 2 guys stole that Boeing 727 at an airport in 2003 and flew away, disappearing forever: no crash, no plane. How is that possible!!!
Had to fact-check it. These 2 guys stole that Boeing 727 at an airport in 2003 and flew away, disappearing forever: no crash, no plane. How is that possible!!!
They likely shut off the transponder and landed it somewhere. They easily could have dismantled it or sold it off to a private entity who the. Could have rebranded/recovered/repurposed the aircraft so that it’ll never be found.
Lot more planes in the ocean than boats in the sky.
ItchyCartographer44 on
They’re still flying, as far as we know.
Thursday_the_20th on
Because this happened to be the first commercial jetliner with a gas turbine auxiliary power unit, a tiny jet turbine that could be used to start up the first engine with bleed air and then all the others. Before that they needed to be started by ground crew. This was the first jetliner that could realistically be stolen so of course it’d get stolen.
BrownDog42069 on
People say insurance fraud but then the question is why were these 2 people never seen again
BATorRAT on
These modern mysteries play with my mind.
Beezus_Fuffoon18 on
How did I never read/hear about this?
dudeben90 on
Texastexastexas1 on
How do you know it didn’t crash?
Navynutz on
It was probably them damn penguins
freqCake on
the easy bet is that they did crash and just nobody ever found the crash site because they had turned off the transponder and it was far in the wilderness or the ocean
Pearson94 on
Pretty sure they crashed just not anywhere near civilization (ocean most likely).
Either they landed safely at an unmarked location somehow (it’s not impossible, just improbable) or they crashed in the ocean.
Tacothekid on
It’s possible because…feds. They was feds, probably
schmitie369 on
Look up @JustXAshton on Twitter/X
DunderFlippin on
The ocean is a very large place my friend.
Besides, flying a plane is easy; it’s landing that is a motherfucker.
UninvitedGhost on
Accomplished_Dig3699 on
You guys are thinking about this all wrong.
FBI can’t catch them if they kept going up
pinkeye_bingo on
The ocean covers 75% of the Earth
gaoshan on
How is it possible? They crashed and no one found it.
Justifiably_Cynical on
They landed on a partially submerged strip of island, called in their location and a crew came out and stripped it down then dragged the fuselage out to sea with the back-up boat.
whosjardaddy on
-CocaineCowboys- on
🎶 *Unda da sea, unda da sea 🎶*
blu3ysdad on
Oh it crashed alright
atm2770 on
Have you ever seen “Manifest”?
Whooptidooh on
No *reported* crash.
The ocean is big, and you can’t just show up to an airport to land your plane without the proper paperwork. They probably crashed somewhere at sea.
Dependent-Hurry9808 on
One of them looks like Walter white
LonelyMustard on
Same with MH370. Ocean is vast and deep
Excellent-Pin3646 on
The jets got scrambled and shot them down. Government covered it up.
You think after 9/11 they would let these guys fuck around and NOT find out?
Funicularly on
It did crash, most likely.
Jaded_Chemical646 on
“Aviation has a perfect safety record, we’ve never left one up there yet”
My old flight school had a sign on the toilet wall with a bunch of aviation related sayings, that was one of the ones I can remember
NorthernViews on
Likely crashed in ocean (estimated range they had when taking off doesn’t actually put them terribly far off the African west coast all things considered). I don’t buy the landing at some airport secretly theory only because that’s insanely hard to do and then continue on without being found, or any piece of the airplane being discovered.
Successful_Moment_91 on
It was Lost
MagicOrpheus310 on
It’s still up there flying around somewhere..?
Nikablah1884 on
I feel like it landed out somewhere and some rich african dude is probably still flying it after forging some numbers. The US etc was looking it for as a security threat when it was probably just a regular robbery so they looked in all the “wrong” places.
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Angola_Boeing_727_disappearance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Angola_Boeing_727_disappearance)
The ocean knows all…
Africa
They likely shut off the transponder and landed it somewhere. They easily could have dismantled it or sold it off to a private entity who the. Could have rebranded/recovered/repurposed the aircraft so that it’ll never be found.
https://i.redd.it/oln5iecuh8td1.gif
Not that hard really…
The average depth of the ocean is 3.5 km
Lot more planes in the ocean than boats in the sky.
They’re still flying, as far as we know.
Because this happened to be the first commercial jetliner with a gas turbine auxiliary power unit, a tiny jet turbine that could be used to start up the first engine with bleed air and then all the others. Before that they needed to be started by ground crew. This was the first jetliner that could realistically be stolen so of course it’d get stolen.
People say insurance fraud but then the question is why were these 2 people never seen again
These modern mysteries play with my mind.
How did I never read/hear about this?
How do you know it didn’t crash?
It was probably them damn penguins
the easy bet is that they did crash and just nobody ever found the crash site because they had turned off the transponder and it was far in the wilderness or the ocean
Pretty sure they crashed just not anywhere near civilization (ocean most likely).
It’s likely hidden in plane sight
What year was Spirit Airlines founded again? 🤔
[There’s so much to the this story](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/the-727-that-vanished-2371187/)
Wormhole
It’s the Trump plane probably
Deep dive for anyone interested.
https://youtu.be/0fRuiJvD2Os?si=NUPKwvZEqbUZpf3w
He had to go. His planet needed him
There’s only 2 possibilities.
Either they landed safely at an unmarked location somehow (it’s not impossible, just improbable) or they crashed in the ocean.
It’s possible because…feds. They was feds, probably
Look up @JustXAshton on Twitter/X
The ocean is a very large place my friend.
Besides, flying a plane is easy; it’s landing that is a motherfucker.
You guys are thinking about this all wrong.
FBI can’t catch them if they kept going up
The ocean covers 75% of the Earth
How is it possible? They crashed and no one found it.
They landed on a partially submerged strip of island, called in their location and a crew came out and stripped it down then dragged the fuselage out to sea with the back-up boat.
🎶 *Unda da sea, unda da sea 🎶*
Oh it crashed alright
Have you ever seen “Manifest”?
No *reported* crash.
The ocean is big, and you can’t just show up to an airport to land your plane without the proper paperwork. They probably crashed somewhere at sea.
One of them looks like Walter white
Same with MH370. Ocean is vast and deep
The jets got scrambled and shot them down. Government covered it up.
You think after 9/11 they would let these guys fuck around and NOT find out?
It did crash, most likely.
“Aviation has a perfect safety record, we’ve never left one up there yet”
My old flight school had a sign on the toilet wall with a bunch of aviation related sayings, that was one of the ones I can remember
Likely crashed in ocean (estimated range they had when taking off doesn’t actually put them terribly far off the African west coast all things considered). I don’t buy the landing at some airport secretly theory only because that’s insanely hard to do and then continue on without being found, or any piece of the airplane being discovered.
It was Lost
It’s still up there flying around somewhere..?
I feel like it landed out somewhere and some rich african dude is probably still flying it after forging some numbers. The US etc was looking it for as a security threat when it was probably just a regular robbery so they looked in all the “wrong” places.
