Frightening Lives

* US aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean in 1937 while attempting to fly around the world along the Equator. In her last radio message Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, had reported running out of fuel. No trace of the two or wreckage was ever found.

* Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the author of Le Petit Prince, vanished in July 1944 while on a mission to survey German troop movements. His Lockheed Lightning P-38 plane was found some 60 years later on the seabed off Marseille.

* In December 1945, a group of five Avenger torpedo bombers disappeared along with all 14 airmen while on a routine patrol in the area between Miami and Florida known as the Bermuda Triangle. The men had radioed that they were lost and their compasses were not working before vanishing. The planes were never found.

* In August 1947, Star Dust, a British South American Airways airliner vanished as it flew between Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile, via Mendoza. No wreckage was discovered for over 50 years, provoking conspiracy theories about sabotage and abduction by aliens. A Rolls Royce engine and the remains of nine of the eleven victims were eventually found at the foot of a glacier in the Andes.

* Adam Air Flight 574 between the Indonesian cities of Surabaya and Manado disappeared off the western coast on 1 January 2007. While the black box flight recorders and some debris were eventually recovered, the bodies of the 102 people on board were never found.

Song for the day : Frightening Lives by Broken Social Scenes

frightening lives
you and me
frightening live
above the sand
frightening lives
all will weep
frightening lives
desperate scene