On November 24th, 1971 a man dressed in a suit and tie hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines flight bound for Seattle, Washington. He told the flight crew he had a bomb in his briefcase and demanded $200,000 dollars in cash and four parachutes.

On November 24th, 1971 a man dressed in a suit and tie hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines flight bound for Seattle, Washington. He told the flight crew he had a bomb in his briefcase and demanded $200,000 dollars in cash and four parachutes.

At the time of this writing, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, transporting 227 passengers and 12 crew members from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, has been missing for months. An unprecedented international search was unable to locate any bodies or debris. Authorities remain baffled, and the world remains transfixed. However, this is not the first story of its kind to shake the global community. According to the Aviation Society Network, more than 80 aircrafts have been declared "missing" since 1948--"Ghost Planes" that have literally vanished without a trace. This special utilizes interviews with experts and the families of passengers, CGI, re-enactments and archival news footage to walk viewers through the various theories surrounding the fate of missing Malaysian Flight 370, while discussing the disappearance in its historical context--as one of many "Ghost Plane" cases that have perplexed people since the beginning of aviation.

In 1950, a military transport plane vanished in the Alaska Triangle with 44 people on board, and hasn't been seen since. Was its disappearance caused by bad weather or something more sinister? Our team investigates the possibility that a space-time vortex could have transported the plane to another dimension.

On December 5, 1945, five Grumman Avengers with a crew of 14 left the U.S. Naval Air Station in Fort Lauderdale for a routine training flight. Three hours later, Flight 19 had disappeared without a trace into the area that would become known as the Bermuda Triangle. A Martin Mariner flying boat, with a crew of 12 and enough fuel for 24 hours, was sent out to search for the missing planes--and never returned to base. No wreckage or bodies were ever found. What really happened to Flight 19?

On June 18, 1928, world-famous Polar explorer Roald Amundsen took off from Norway in a flying boat and headed towards the Arctic Circle. He and five companions were joining the search for Umberto Nobile and his crew who had disappeared in the airship Italia over the North Pole almost a month earlier. Three hours after take off, Amundsen sent a routine signal to the rest of the assembling rescue team. It was the last time anyone heard from the plane. The 55-year-old explorer and crew had vanished.