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1940s. a training mission vanished in the bermudas. even the search plane went missing all without a trace and still unsolved. then there's this, the flying tiger line. >> it went off in 1952 near guam, flying tiger line went off the radar, gone, disappeared. >> no wreckage. >> no. >> reporter: it was 1962. a u.s. military flight with more than 90 people on board unsolved. the crash of uruguay air force flight 71 was so mysterious that hollywood depicted the tale in the movie "alive." in 1972 the plane crashed in the andes mountains. the survivors resorted to cannibalism to stay alive until th...

Now obviously based on data, the analysis of the data. right now there's just a big math problem being solved by smart people in a room. do you think there's more data out there and do you think there needs to be a better analysis? >> that's a very good question. because in the case of air france, on one hand we had too much data. on the other hand we had too little data. the idea was to backtrack the data that could help us on the ocean as opposed to the air problem. so we sort of went through the data and then found new data that helped us narrow down the retro drift and the positions of the...

Guam, flying tiger line went off the radar, gone, disappeared. >> no wreckage. >> no. >> reporter: it was 1962. a u.s. military flight with more than 90 people on board unsolved. the crash of uruguay air force flight 571 was so mysterious that hollywood depicted the tale in the movie "alive." in 1972 the plane crashed in the andes mountains. the survivors resorted to cannibalism to stay alive until they were found. this mystery solved after 72 days. >> what are historians and bloggers saying right now ability about this modern mystery? >> a very weird event. a very strange event that doesn't l...

Investigation. and amongst that group are the ntsb, faa, the waip, rolls royce, boeing, the malaysians. all the experts. inmarsat. miles would like them to release the documents upon which they are refining the search. maybe there's a call for that to give more information. because what they appear to be doing is moving this box around and not really explaining why. do they have to explain why to us? that's an interesting question. >> david gallo, i want to bring you in here. as they're moving these assets around and changing the search area, now they have the towed pinger locater out there. h...

>> what are historians and bloggers saying right now ability about this modern mystery? >> a very weird event. a very strange event that doesn't lend itself to the normal sets of explanations. >> as a historian, how gripping is this for you? >> phenomenally gripping. people are gripped by mysteries. things that are unsolved just sort of grab people. and especially when you have a common experience of flying. >> reporter: and that's why this historian says today's mystery must be solved. >> when you get on the plane the next time, are you going to wonder a little bit whether or not you're going...