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Hoping that piece of flotsam in the south indian ocean is a clue to the plane. the families hoping it's not. it would mean the certain perishing of all of their loved ones. i want to bring a man whose brother ben padilla got on flight 727 in angola in may 2003 and that man has never been heard from since. joe padilla joins us exclusively. thank you for being here, joe. >> thank you for having me. >> tell me about your brother and what happened to him? >> well, all i know is the fbi had told me in the beginning when this happened that my brother was on a plane. he boarded this plane and then it...

It would mean the certain perishing of all of their loved ones. i want to bring a man whose brother ben padilla got on flight 727 in angola in may 2003 and that man has never been heard from since. joe padilla joins us exclusively. thank you for being here, joe. >> thank you for having me. >> tell me about your brother and what happened to him? >> well, all i know is the fbi had told me in the beginning when this happened that my brother was on a plane. he boarded this plane and then it took off. and no one knows what happened to it. days after that i had found out that the plane made all kind...

Carried as many passengers as flight 370, but there was one disappearance in 2003, in angola, at the country's largest airport there was a boeing 727 that had been parked for month, racking up $4 million in airport fees, which is four times the amount they paid for it after it was pushed out of circulation. one person, ben charles padilla, who was a certified air frame and power plant mechanic who was called a gifted mechanic and was able to fly small planes. also a father of two. minutes before sunset, padilla and another mechanic got on the boeing 727 that they were working on, tail number 8...

Time. we take for granted with the few taps of our keyboard we can find where our i-phone is if it's missing. and in an era of google maps how a plane this large can be missing? it's 200 feet and has 250 people on board. steve, you're a pilot. this is baffling. we get on planes and people know where we are. >> you know prosecute saturday nig -- from saturday night, i'm upset they can turn transponders off. why? >> every piece of equipment is able to turn off in case there is a fire or some electrical malfunction. there may be another protocol or system that prevents this from happening. in ter...

Plane was shot down in a massive government cover up. in 1945, five navy bombers, a fleet known as flight 19 vanish off the coast of florida in the bermuda triangle. a search aircraft sent to find bombers also disappear but the plane and the bodies have never been found. and in 2003 a boeing 727 was stolen from an airport in ang a angola. the plane thought to be carrying three people took off and made no communication with the control tower and had tracking tr