About this episode

The episode explores the mysterious case of a jet that vanished from radar in 1975 and its recurring theme in aviation history.

On March 24th, 1975, a small newspaper item described a jet vanishing from radar for exactly ten minutes on approach to Miami — no wreckage, no distress call, just silence — before reappearing as if nothing had happened, its clocks now running ten minutes behind. It's the kind of story that resists being forgotten: an air traffic controller who supposedly told the pilot he simply hadn't existed, a plane full of people who felt no gap at all. But look closer, and the story starts to blur — the same premise resurfaces in 1985, then 1989, then 2026, each time with a different flight number, a different decade, a different city, always traced back to tabloids known for inventing the impossible. So what really vanished in 1975?

People in this episode

Hosts: Luna Sparks, Omar Trekker

Topics covered

• mystery
• aviation
• disappearances
• history
• tabloids

Keywords

• jet disappearance
• radar ghosts
• aviation mystery
• Miami
• tabloid stories

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Miami

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