arroll A.

Deering
Main article: Carroll A. Deering

Schooner Carroll A. Deering, as seen from the Cape Lookout lightvessel on January
29, 1921, two days before she was found deserted in North Carolina. (US Coast
Guard)
Carroll A. Deering, a five-masted schooner built in 1919, was found hard aground
and abandoned at Diamond Shoals, near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on January 31,
1921. FBI investigation into the Deering scrutinized, then ruled out, multiple
theories as to why and how the ship was abandoned, including piracy, domestic
Communist sabotage and the involvement of rum-runners.[46]

Flight 19
Main article: Flight 19

US Navy Avengers, similar to those of Flight 19

Flight 19 was a training flight of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that
disappeared on December 5, 1945, while over the Atlantic. The squadron's flight
plan was scheduled to take them due east from Fort Lauderdale for 141 mi (227 km),
north for 73 mi (117 km), and then back over a final 140-mile (230-kilometre) leg
to complete the exercise. The flight never returned to base. The disappearance was
attributed by Navy investigators to navigational error leading to the aircraft
running out of fuel.

One of the search and rescue aircraft deployed to look for them, a PBM Mariner with
a 13-man crew, also disappeared. A tanker off the coast of Florida reported seeing
an explosion[47] and observing a widespread oil slick when fruitlessly searching
for survivors. The weather was becoming stormy by the end of the incident.[48]
According to contemporaneous sources the Mariner had a history of explosions due to
vapour leaks when heavily loaded with fuel, as it might have been for a potentially
long search-and-rescue operation.

Star Tiger and Star Ariel

Main articles: BSAA Star Tiger disappearance and BSAA Star Ariel disappearance
G-AHNP Star Tiger disappeared on January 30, 1948, on a flight from the Azores to
Bermuda; G-AGRE Star Ariel disappeared on January 17, 1949, on a flight from
Bermuda to Kingston, Jamaica. Both were Avro Tudor IV passenger aircraft operated
by British South American Airways.[49] Both planes were operating at the very
limits of their range and the slightest error or fault in the equipment could keep
them from reaching the small island.[1]

Douglas DC-3
Main article: 1948 Airborne Transport DC-3 (DST) disappearance
On December 28, 1948, a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, number NC16002, disappeared while on
a flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami. No trace of the aircraft, or the 32
people on board, was ever found. A Civil Aeronautics Board investigation found
there was insufficient information available on which to determine probable cause
of the disappearance.[50]