The Untold Story of Flying Tiger Line Flight 739

In mid-March 1962, during the preliminary stages of the Vietnam War, United States Army Flying Tiger Flight 739 vanished over the seemingly bottomless Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean on its way to the Philippines from Guam. Approximately an hour after the plane’s final communication, members of a Standard Oil tanker in the area reported to have witnessed a luminous explosion in the sky, which some investigators have linked to the plane. No distress calls were received by air traffic control centers, making it difficult to pinpoint exactly when things began to go wrong for those onboard. After an exhaustive search party-comprising 1,300 people, 48 aircraft, and 8 surface vessels, all of which covered roughly 144,000 square miles-proved entirely unsuccessful, rumors ran rampant throughout the United States as to what had happened. Such theories range from claims that it was accidentally shot down by the U.S. government, which then covered their tracks, to simple engine and communication failure. However, the true cause remains elusive, and no one may ever know what really happened.

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