Modern Mysteries

Mystery as man dies on flight and then completely disappears

By T.K. Randall
July 29, 2025 ·  23 comments

Image: American Airlines Airbus A300-600 (illustrative)
Credit: Eheik / (PD) According to reports, the man - who has not been named - suffered a 'severe medical emergency' while on a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul to the United States on July 13th.

Sadly, the 83-year-old died as a result, but it is what happened next that would remain the most perplexing thing about the incident.

The decision had been made not to cut the flight short but to continue on to Chicago O'Hare Airport which had suitable medical facilities to deal with the situation.When the plane landed, however, nobody could find the man's body anywhere.

Turkish Airlines had claimed that, upon landing, the body had been transferred to a different flight to be taken to San Francisco, but there was no documentation to confirm that such a transfer had ever happened and the medical examiner's office in San Francisco never received the body either.

As things stand, nobody seems to know what happened to it.

Source: Metro.co.uk | Comments (23)

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