While the lake is by no means as big as an ocean, a plane in 1950 disappeared with 58 passengers and crashed into the water. DETROIT – Early in the morning of June 24, 1950, a Northwest Orient Airlines plane crashed into Lake Michigan.. Leo Wooler was among the 58 people killed. On June 23, 1950, NWA Flight 2501 - a DC-4 propliner - took off from New York City en route to Minneapolis, Minn. 'Expedition Unknown' to feature 1950 Lake Michigan plane disappearance Herald-Palladium | 02-07 SOUTH HAVEN — Set your DVRs for 8 p.m. next Wednesday, as Discovery Channel’s “Expedition Unknown” host Josh Gates explores one of Lake Michigan’s greatest mysteries – the disappearance of Northwest Airlines Flight 2501. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 No explanation has been made about the disappearance and the area where the plane was lost is now called the “new Bermuda Triangle” 3. I explored some more cases, and I stumbled across the mystery of Northwest Airlines Flight 2501. Take a look back at one of the most perplexing mysteries in aviation history. The flight was carrying 55 passengers and three crew members; the loss of all 58 on board made it the deadliest commercial airliner accident in America at the time. The Disappearance of Northwest Airlines Flight 2501. The plane went down on a flight from McChord Air Force Base in Washington state. What happened on the stormy afternoon of June 23rd, 1950, over Lake Michigan? On the other hand, there is no explanation for the disappearance of aircraft. On 26 January 1950, the Douglas C-54 Skymaster serial number 42-72469 disappeared en route from Alaska to Montana, with 44 people aboard. On average, five planes continue to disappear in the region each year. In the episode, host and explorer Josh Gates investigates the 70-year-old mystery of Northwest Orient flight 2501’s disappearance over the waters of Lake Michigan in 1950… During wartime, the disappearance of airplanes and their crews are a frequent occurrence, and some notable aces and other famous people have disappeared during wartime and not yet been found. Apart from some human debris, no other wreckage has been found and no explanation for the crash has been given to date. The first, a Douglas C-54D Skymaster military plane vanished into thin air while traveling from Alaska to Montana on 26 th January 1950. Over the last 70 years, a number of planes have been the subjects of incidents attributed to the Bermuda Triangle. MOREAUVILLE-- It was a cold, cloudy night above Lake Superior nearly 50 years ago when 27-year old Avoyelles Parish native and Air Force pilot 1st Lt. Felix E. "Gene" Moncla Jr. and 2nd Lt. Robert Wilson met a mysterious fate, trying to intercept what some believe was a UFO. The mysterious vanishing was reported and the case was closed after local authorities failed to find the airliner. Despite one of the largest rescue efforts carried out by the US military, no trace of the aircraft has ever been found. According to the Curiosity magazine, among them are a military aircraft with 44 passengers in 1950 and the twin-engine Cessna 340 with five passengers in 1990. "Carter's complete disappearance is an unsolved mystery to this day," declared Bob Lee, a member of the Seattle Mountain Search and Rescue unit who was involved in the operation to find Carter. DETROIT – On June 23, 1950, a plane traveling from New York to Minneapolis crashed into Lake Michigan.. After more than 60 years, the plane is still missing. Malaysian Air disappearance: Echoes of 1950 Northwest Airlines flight The Northwest 2501 incident is a mystery that has confounded searchers for over six decades. The Strange True Story of the Disappearance of Flight 2501 Over Milwaukee. [1] [2] The aircraft made its last radio contact two hours into its eight-hour flight. Aircraft debris and other evidence were … Volunteers try to solve mystery of 1950 plane crash in Lake Michigan ... and the Milwaukee Journal was the first media outlet to report the flight's disappearance. At the time, it was the deadliest airliner accident in the nation’s history. The tracks were traced by plane again towards the Eagle Crick ranger station before they disappeared into complete wilderness. The 1950 Douglas C-54D disappearance. The disappearance of this C-124 in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ireland in March 1951 still raises many questions to the fate of the aircrew. Nearly one year after the disappearance of the Star Tiger, another British South American Airways plane, flying from Bermuda to Jamaica on January 17, 1949, disappeared completely. On 16 th March 1962, 93 U.S Soldiers and three Vietnamese boarded the flight from the Travis Air Force Base, California heading towards Saigon, Vietnam. Flight 2501 crashed into Lake Michigan late on June 23, 1950, killing Lind and the 57 others on board. Gates and his film crew came to South Haven late last summer to learn more about the airplane that vanished into the depths of the Big Lake on the night of June 23, 1950. Lake Michigan crash of 1950. Family, friends and investigators want to know what happened to this well-liked Moreauville man so many years ago. Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 was a Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation plane that prompted one of the largest air and sea disappearance searches in the history of Pacific Ocean. Only recently, after more than 60 years, have some of the families of those lost on this flight been able to secure proper military honors and burials for their lost family members. A Boeing 727-223, registered N844AA, was stolen from Quatro de Fevereiro Airport, Luanda, Angola on May 25, 2003. All 58 people aboard the flight on June 23, 1950 were lost when the plane went down over Lake Michigan. A good example is band leader Glenn Miller, who with his airplane and the people aboard disappeared on a flight to Paris from London in 1944. Aircraft disappearances. 1. The Douglas in question was flying, 26 Jan, from Alaska to Texas (via Montana) with forty-four souls on board. The puzzling disappearance rocked the world again as the plane landed 47 years later in December 1993, not in Havana but at the airport of Bogota, Colombia. It had four Pratt and Whitney, R2000 “Wasp” piston engines that could generate 1,450 horsepower. The Douglas C-54D Skymaster Disappearance, January 1950. The plane was found six months after the crash and divers located the six bodies of the passengers. One of the theories presented was that the Bermuda Triangle had something to do with the plane’s mysterious disappearance. The Mysterious Disappearance of Flight 19. One of the largest ever instances of the disappearance of US military personnel happened not during wartime but in 1950 when a US Air Force (USAF) Douglas C-54 Skymaster of Strategic Air Command disappeared en route from Anchorage, Alaska to Great Falls, Montana. The Douglas C-54 Skymaster was a cargo plane that made routine flights across the United States and Canada between 1942 and the late 1970’s. Its disappearance prompted a worldwide search by the FBI and the CIA. The Bennington Triangle case involves a series of mysterious disappearances over the course of thirty years, between 1920 and 1950, in Bennington, Vermont: • On December 1, 1949, veteran James Tetford is said to have vanished from a crowded bus on the way to St. Albans. List Created By: Wardah Maaz Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 was a DC-4 propliner operating its daily transcontinental service between New York City and Seattle when it disappeared on the night of June 23, 1950.