The ex-American Airlines Boeing 727 that vanished

In May 2003, the trijet took off from an airport in Angola and was never seen again. Key.Aero recounts the events of an extraordinary incident that continues to stump investigators to this day

Commercial aircraft don’t often disappear. The environment in which they operate, and the size of many types means that they’re usually found when something happens.

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