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It’s likely that others capitalized on this real-life fake news to share the story without adding that one pertinent detail, the one about how everyone knew all along the whole thing was a fanciful fabrication. In any case, the video reveals that the story is a hoax only well toward the end. Bright Side introduced a number of “details” that were not in the first Weekly World News story, including the fact that the plane was visible on radar. The snappily produced video has gotten more than 15 million views, but it doesn’t get to the fact that it was a fake tabloid story until about two-thirds through. The tale got a huge boost when YouTube channel Bright Side put out a video about the disappearance. The paper ran the story again twice in the 1990s (with the plane’s arrival date changed to 1992 in those later stories). It dates to a story first published in 1985 by the Weekly World News, the onetime tabloid ( now website), which specializes in crazy, concocted stories like this one. The governments of both Venezuela and the United States, the story goes, were said to have seized the calendar and the tower tapes and have refused to comment on the incident even once in the intervening decades. And the calendar? Did he drop it accidentally? Or does it hold the secret to what happened? What exactly did it say?
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The pilot, for his part, dropped a small calendar out the window before he made a hasty turn back to the runway, where he took off and disappeared as suddenly as he had arrived. Instead, it showed up, unannounced and invisible to Caracas radar, on March 9, 1985! Voicing his concerns to the tower, the pilot, after a textbook landing, taxied toward the gate, and ground handlers could see the faces of the screaming passengers pressed up against their windows, looking at a fantastic new world. The flight was scheduled to last a couple of hours, but it never arrived in Miami. Pan Am Flight 914 was a Douglas DC-4 with 57 passengers and six crew members that took off from a New York City airport headed for Miami, Florida.