• Text size
  • Send this article to a friend
  • Print this article

The mystery of flight 574

On January 1 this year, in an eerie real-life echo of Channel Four�s Lost, a Boeing 737 with 102 people on board simply vanished off the coast of Sulawesi. As the weeks went on, rumour and speculation were rife, but no bodies were ever found. By Paul Brown

ON NEW year's day, 2007, a Boeing 737 airliner carrying 96 passengers and six crew members disappeared from the skies above Indonesia. Adam Air Flight 574 was en route from Java to Sulawesi when it vanished from air traffic control radar.