The tale got a huge boost when YouTube channel Bright Side put out a video about the disappearance. The paper ran the story again twice in the 1990s (with the plane’s arrival date changed to 1992 in those later stories). It dates to a story first published in 1985 by the Weekly World News, the onetime tabloid ( now website), which specializes in crazy, concocted stories like this one. But in this case, unlike with many urban legends, the source of that fabrication is known. What really happened to Flight 914?Īs you’ve hopefully already figured out, the story of Pan Am Flight 914 was a total fabrication. The governments of both Venezuela and the United States, the story goes, were said to have seized the calendar and the tower tapes and have refused to comment on the incident even once in the intervening decades. And the calendar? Did he drop it accidentally? Or does it hold the secret to what happened? What exactly did it say? The pilot, for his part, dropped a small calendar out the window before he made a hasty turn back to the runway, where he took off and disappeared as suddenly as he had arrived. Instead, it showed up, unannounced and invisible to Caracas radar, on March 9, 1985! Voicing his concerns to the tower, the pilot, after a textbook landing, taxied toward the gate, and ground handlers could see the faces of the screaming passengers pressed up against their windows, looking at a fantastic new world. The flight was scheduled to last a couple of hours, but it never arrived in Miami. Pan Am Flight 914 was a Douglas DC-4 with 57 passengers and six crew members that took off from a New York City airport headed for Miami, Florida.
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