47 Passengers Vanished Over the Ocean in 1987 — 39 Years Later, the Plane Emerges From the Deep
The ocean was far too calm that morning.
Fog stretched across the water like an endless gray blanket. The horizon had completely disappeared between sea and sky. There was no clear difference between above and below, between clouds and waves, as if the entire world had been erased.
So when the tip of a metal wing appeared above the surface after a violent storm, the old fisherman could not believe his eyes.
At first, he thought it was the wreckage of a ship.
But as he moved closer, he saw the faded white paint, then a large blue letter still visible beneath layers of salt and rust.
SKYLINE AIRWAYS
His heart stopped for a moment.
The airline had shut down more than thirty years earlier.
And on the wing, barely visible beneath the waves, the flight number could still be read:
Flight 702 — October 14, 1987.
A flight that had vanished over the Atlantic Ocean thirty-nine years ago.
There had been forty-seven people on board.
And not a single one of them had ever been found.
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Maritime investigator Layan Mansour arrived at the site before sunset.
She knew the flight number well.
Everyone who grew up in the coastal city of Belford knew it.
