Shocking Revelation: Santiago Flight 513 Disappeared in 1954 – Returns in 1989 with Crew and Passengers Turned into Skeletons. What’s the Truth?

However, the plane simply vanished mid-flight over the Atlantic Ocean. At the time of the disappearance, authorities believed the plane had crashed and over the next few years multiple search parties were formed in order to look for the remains of the passengers or the plane, but nothing was found.

Time passed and decades passed. Saphiago Airlines had already closed its operations in 1956, just two years after the alleged disappearance and, after not finding a single trace of evidence of a plane crash, the search was called off.

Three and a half decades later, on October 12, 1989, Porto Alegre Airport in Brazil detected an unauthorized aircraft circling the air base. Air traffic controllers tried to contact the pilot, but received no response.

Finally, the plaque was brought up to the base and it sat perfectly in place. It seemed to be well-formed and the effigies were still standing and in place even after the plaque touched the base.

Once the airport authorities cautiously approached the scene, they opened the doors from the outside and, they say, their blood ran cold.

They found 92 perfectly preserved skeletons of the people on board (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 Curry, also in skeleton form, still had his hands on the controls.

Fact Check: Is This Story True?

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

Reason for being: The bad reputation of the tabloid

Weekly World News was famous for publishing “fictional stories” in its tabloid more frequently than ever before. Four years before publishing the Flight 513 story, they had published another story about American Airlines Flight 914, which did not disappear for 37 years before reappearing and disappearing.

Reason two: The story seems… familiar

The mysterious story of Saffir-Simpson Flight 513 seems quite similar to a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zoe titled ‘The Odyssey of Flight 33’ in which the plane “somehow” travels back in time to 1939.

Reason three: lack of evidence

No credible news source from 1954 has been traced to confirm that the flight was indeed successful. All we have is the 1989 newspaper clipping to go by.