The Truly Bizarre Account Of Santiago Flight 513
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Marcus Lowth
- December 14, 2018
- September 30, 2021
- 8 min read
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- Supernatural, Disappearances
The account of the Santiago Flight 513 is truly one of the most mysterious and mind-bending encounters on record. One where a plane took off from Germany in 1954, disappeared and was presumed crashed, before reappearing again over the skies of Brazil some thirty-five years later and performing a perfect, standard landing. What’s more, the aircraft appeared brand new as opposed to nearly four decades old.
What happened to Flight 513?
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Marcus Lowth
Marcus Lowth is a writer with a love for UFOs, aliens, and the Ancient Astronaut Theory, to the paranormal, general conspiracies, and unsolved mysteries. He has been writing and researching with over 20 years of experience.
Marcus has been Editor-in-Chief for several years due to his excellent knowledge in these fields. Marcus also regularly appears as an expert on radio talk shows including Troubled Minds and Unexplained Radio discussing these topics.
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It is my humble conclusion that this was an experiment into time-travel which was partially successful and then turned into a disaster.
The only certainties upon which we can rely are the Brazilian Government’s confirmation of the arrival of the aircraft at Porto Alegre and an aviation authority report which may be the same thing, but neither of which have been declassified although some details have leaked out.
“Flight records show” – i.e. this was not a comercial flight – that the aircraft “left Aachen” on the morning of 4 September 1954. There never has been an airfield at Aachen, but in 1954 the RAF had a fighter station at Geilenkirchen only ten miles away with a runway of sufficient length to be used by this kind of Lockheed passenger aircraft. This creates a suspicion that the aircraft was a military version for the time-travel experiments made by the US air force.
It would not have been possible to gag all relatives of the deceased in a commercial airliner disappearance. Therefore the passengers and crew must have been US military.
The website “Ghost Freaks Publication” claims to have seen an extract from the aviation authorities report that “along with the skeletons there were warm coffee cups, lit cigarettes of the Old Gold brand (American), and newspapers dated 21 September 1956 ‘whose ink smelled as though it had been printed out the day before'”.
This suggests to me that the initial experiment was successful, the aircraft had landed immediately (two years into the future to buy the newspapers, therefore success). When it took off again it entered a time warp and reappeared over Brazil in 1989. As the aircraft landed, the time difference caught up with the passengers and crew and reduced them to the skeletal state in which they were found.
Having decided to investigate further, I would report on what I have found pertinent to date. I am not questioning the fact that the incident at Porto Alegre occurred, or occurred as it is reported to have occurred: but that great efforts have been made to cover over the vital details of the flight.
There is no airport at Aachen for transatlantic air traffic. The TWA certificate in 1954 was for Frankfurt.
There was no “Santiago Airline” or any such similar title. TWA operated Lockheed Super Constellation L-1049 flights after taking delivery of ten such aircraft in 1952. From 19 October 1953 TWA offered a non-stop transatlantic service from the United States to Europe.
It seems doubtful that TWA had a certificate to fly from Europe to South America, or that that was where this aircraft was originally headed because:
(a) the minimum crew would have been five, three flight crew and two attendants, and the aircraft only had four: I am checking to see if TWA had a certificate for flights from the United States to Chile which might have required one less flight crew.
(b) Salgado Filho International Airport at Porto Alegre was only equipped for domestic flights and international flights to Panama and Portugal.
TWA continued its operations until cessation on 1 December 2001 when acquired by American Airlines.
It is interesting to note that in the Internet section on “Accidents and Incidents” involving TWA and the L-1049 type aircraft, the loss of the airliner in 1954 is not mentioned. Since there were only ten in TWA service, it should be possible to find the listing and fate of each – or is it?
I have investigated mysteries such as this in the past and when there is such a great weight of false information in place I tend to suspect that a cover-up is in effect, in this case because the Brazilian authorities simply refused to dismiss the matter as an elaborate hoax.
I very much like the suggestion made above by Alexander Federowicz. In order to determine that this event was not a hoax, it appears to me that investigation needs to be undertaken to do the following:
(1) Confirm that this flight definitely existed.
Obtain all details possible of the passengers, names and addresses. What happened to their luggage and private documents and possessions? From there, investigate whether details of the reappearance was ever made known in West Germany (particularly how property of the deceased was dealt with under Family Law etc,) and whether any human remains were returned to Germany.
(2) Awaken family interest in Germany by attempting to obtain details of aviation/passenger insurance for possible claims.
(3) The pilot (and the other three crew members) were probably Chilean, the same goes for them as for the German passengers.
Looks like the temporal effect wore off as the plane was landing, and the null time effect possibly released in an elastic manner to allow the localized time differential specific to the aircraft to re approach present time… So while they were all sound and alive during approach, by the time the airport security entered the plane, time had re corrected the years and fatally aged all the pilots and passengers… The inconsistent issue is that the planes inorganic material appeared new… Possibly the time / torsion field had a very specific effect on organic matter and mechanical parts were better preserved ? Since it was then covered up, we have no proper investigative information.
I was just reading the disappearance of flight 513 and at the bottom was your link. I always find these topics fascinating and would love to hear more