I will today focus on  aircraft that just disappeared , with an in-depth analysis on Malaysian Air 370, a Boeing 777-200ER, that vanished on 8March2014.   There have been  242 incidents  when a flying object with at least one passenger disappeared, going back to 1857.  There is a Cuban expression,  Voló como Matías Pérez , meaning he flew like Matias Perez, which became popular since Matías Pérez in a hot air balloon over the North Atlantic Ocean never was found. A particularly notable loss was the Lockheed Electra 10E with Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan in 1937 over the Central Pacific Ocean. They were on an around-the-world flight. The U.S. government searched for 16 days with nine vessels and around 4000 crew members, including the aircraft carrier Lexington, and 66 aircraft. Several films were produced: 1943 with Rosalind Russell as Earhart, 1976 with Susan Clark, 1994 with Diane Keaton and 2009 with Hilary Swank. There have been numerous private a...