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March 23, 1951
Atlantic C-124 disappearance
The
1951 Atlantic C-124 disappearance involved a Douglas C-124 of the United States
Air Force which disappeared on March 23, 1951 after an in-flight fire forced
the pilots to ditch the aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of
Shannon, Ireland.
The
ditching and subsequent evacuation was successful, but when would-be rescuers
arrived on the scene, the aircraft and its occupants had vanished. All 53
people on board were never found and were presumed dead.
A
Boeing B-29 in the 509th Bomb Wing flew in from Ireland and
spotted the rafts and flares However, when would-be rescuers (British planes,
weather ships, submarine, several warships and the USS Coral Sea) arrived at
the crash site over 19 hours later, the aircraft, along with its passengers and
crew, were gone. The survivors' bodies were never found. Overall, the fate of
the crashed C-124 and its 53 occupants remains undetermined.
It is a known fact that Soviet submarines were
operating in the area at the time, and it has been speculated that the crew may
have been "snatched".
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