Vrede Airlines Flight 59 Incident
Disappearance | |
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Date | 21 December 1999 |
Summary | plane dissapeared |
Site | Aestras Sea, potentially Sunadic Ocean |
Total fatalities | 232 (presumed) |
Total missing | 232 |
Total survivors | 0 (presumed) |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Boeing 747 |
Operator | VredeAirlines |
Registration | NX-YEP |
Flight origin | New Apex, Nexalan |
Destination | San Jorge Xayacatlán, Gran Rugido |
Occupants | 232 |
Passengers | 220 |
Crew | 12 |
Fatalities | 232 (presumed) |
Injuries | 0 (presumed) |
Missing | 232 |
Survivors | 0 (presumed) |
Ground casualties | |
Ground fatalities | 0 |
Ground injuries | 0 |
Vrede Airlines Flight 59 was an international passenger flight operated by Vrede Airlines that disappeared on 21 December 1999 while flying from New Apex International Airport in Nexalan to its planned destination, San Jorge Xayacatlán International Airport. On December 21st, 1999 at 08:29 UTC, 34 minutes into the flight as it was exiting Soltenia airspace and about to enter Racinia the aircraft was lost from ATC radar screens, and military radar was unable to locate the aircraft, Racinia were unable to spot the aircraft and was declared missing. Rescue efforts were not made until 12 hours since the plane went missing, search and rescue were told to look mainly around the Aestras Sea, but nothing was found, the search for the aircraft costed more than 560 million dollars. In 2001, a resident of Gefrandia reported an unknown large sheet of metal that was later found to be part of one of the planes wings, which sparked a large investigation around the area, but nothing was found. An additional of three pieces of aircraft material were confirmed to be part of Flight 59, including a window slide found on passenger seats (found on 2004 in Romanus Americanus), a piece of the engine wheel (found on 2005 in Romanus Americanus), and a toilet lid (found on 2007 in Viriditasia) 23 other unconfirmed piece were found in countries of Nexalan, Mbuntrare, Dongguo, Stivichia, Soltenia, Khandpa, Dwetasia, Sakura-tochi, Racinia, Flourystria, Chrysalia State, Hylia, Freice, Gran Rugido, etc.