Case file · High strangeness

SAETA Flight 232 vanishes

On 23 April 1979 another SAETA Viscount on the Quito–Cuenca route vanished with 57 people; the wreckage was found years later in the mountains.

1979 CE · -1.90, -78.70 · status: explained

The sceptical view

Both SAETA losses are explained as controlled flight into terrain in cloud; location approximate.

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Sources

  1. Wikipedia: SAETA Flight 232
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