Breakiпg: Mystery Of Saпtiago Flight 513 That ‘Disappeared’ Iп 1954, Oпly To Laпd Iп 1989 With Skeletoпs

According to an article published by tabloid Weekly World News in 1989, Santiago Airlines Flight 513 took off on September 4, 1954 from Aachen, West Germany and was scheduled to arrive in Porto Alegre, Brazil 18 hours later.

Three and a half decades later, on October 12, 1989, the Porto Alegre airport in Brazil spotted an unauthorised aircraft circling around the airbase. The air traffic controllers tried contacting the pilot but got no response.

They found 92 perfectly-preserved skeletons of the people onboard (88 passengers and four crew members) “safely” buckled into their seats. When they opened the cockpit doors, they saw that the plane’s pilot, Captain Miguel Victor Cury, also in a skeletal form, still had his hands on the controls.

Fact-Checking: Is This Story True?

Broadly speaking, there are three reasons why the story is widely considered to be false.

Reason One: The Ill-Reputation Of The Tabloid

Weekly World News was infamous for publishing ‘fictional stories’ in their tabloid more often than not. Four years before releasing the story on Flight 513, they had published yet another story of Pan Am Flight 914, which went missing for 37 years before reappearing and landing unscathed.

Reason Two: The Story Seems… Familiar

The mysterious story of Santiago Flight 513 seems uncannily similar to an episode of 1961 show The Twilight Zone titled ‘The Odyssey of Flight 33’ in which the aircraft “somehow, someway” travels back in time to 1939.

Reason Three: Lack Of Evidence