• Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Aviation Conspiracy Theories

They want to believe!

 The Wright brothers
Some believe the Wright brothers did not in fact build the world's first successful aeroplane. German-born Gustav Whitehead should get the credit, they say, as evidence suggests he took to the sky two years earlier. They add that US institutions will not accept Whitehead's role in the birth of aviation because of their indebtedness to the Wrights' legacy – a 1948 contract between the estate of Orville Wright and the Smithsonian museum means it is legally obliged to call the Wright brothers the first to fly.

 Amelia Earhart

 The Bermuda Triangle
 TWA Flight 800

 Aerolinee Itavia

Star Dust was a civilian version of the Lancaster bomber and was registered to the British South American Airways. In 1947, it was traveling from Buenos Aires to Santiago, Chile but disappeared over the Andes minutes before its scheduled landing. In his last moments, the aircraft's radio operator transmitted one final, puzzling Morse code message: “STENDEC.” The meaning of STENDEC is still unknown, and has been interpreted in many ways. One string of theories explains STENDEC to be one of a number of acronyms like "Starting En-Route Descent" or "Severe Turbulence Encountered Now Descending Emergency Crash-Landing", but none of these acronyms can be reliably documented for the era.
The vanishing act happened at a time of considerable political turmoil in South America. Deteriorating Anglo-Argentine relations held intriguing implications for the contents of the diplomatic bag carried by the King's Messenger; sabotage might have been a convenient way to ensure that it never arrived at its destination.
Fifty years later, hikers discovered the plane's wreckage in a melting glacier. Star Dust went off course due to then unknown phenomenon jet stream, and in low visibility descended into the cloud-covered mountain range.

Source: telegraph.co.uk, uk.news.yahoo.com, damninteresting.com, listverse.com

Published: 12:00 am Friday, March 14, 2014


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