Thrilling Mystery Of Missing Santiago Flight 513 In 1954

For decades, the narrative of the mysterious incident that reportedly occurred aboard Santiago Flight 513 between 1954 and 1989 has been making the rounds among believers in the'supernatural,' and no one knows what to make of it.

A summary of the story for the uninitiated:

According to a 1989 article in the tabloid Weekly World News, Santiago Airlines Flight 513 departed Aachen, West Germany on September 4, 1954 and was due to arrive in Porto Alegre, Brazil 18 hours later.

The plane, however, abruptly vanished in mid-flight over the Atlantic Ocean. Authorities assumed the plane had crashed at the time of the disappearance, and various search parties were established in the years that followed to look for the remains of the passengers or the plane, but nothing was discovered. Decades passed as time passed. Santiago Airlines had already gone out of business in 1956, only two years after the claimed disappearance, and the search had been called off after failing to discover even a single piece of proof of a plane crash.

On October 12, 1989, at the Porto Alegre airport in Brazil, an unlicensed aircraft was sighted circling the airbase, three and a half decades later. The pilot was contacted by air traffic controllers, but no response was received. 

The plane eventually approached the runway and landed perfectly. Even after the plane touched down, the engines were still up and running, indicating that it had been well-maintained. The airport authorities cautiously approached the plane and opened the doors from the outside, which they claim froze their bones to the core.

They discovered 92 immaculately preserved skeletons (88 passengers and four crew members) "safely" fastened into their seats. When they opened the cockpit doors, they discovered that the plane's pilot, Captain Miguel Victor Cury, was still holding the controls in a skeletal state.

Fact-Checking: Is This Story True?

There are three general reasons why the narrative is largely believed to be fake.

Reason One: The Ill-Reputation Of The Tabloid

Weekly World News was notorious for frequently publishing 'fake news' in its tabloid. They had published another storey about Pan Am Flight 914, which had gone lost for 37 years before reappearing and landing unharmed, four years before they released the storey about Flight 513.

Reason Two: The Story Seems… Familiar

The enigmatic storey of Santiago Flight 513 resembles an episode of The Twilight Zone from 1961 called "The Odyssey of Flight 33," in which the plane "somehow, someway" travels back in time to 1939.

Reason Three: Lack Of Evidence

In order to confirm that the flight did really vanish into thin air, no reputable source of news from 1954 could be found. To believe, we only have a newspaper piece from 1989.