Human Nature

The Disappearance of Flight 188

You’ve heard of planes that vanished into thin air? Here’s a truer, scarier story: On Oct. 21, 2009, two pilots flying from San Diego to Minneapolis vanished into cyberspace.

Their plane was fine. Ground controllers tracked it the whole time. The passengers and flight attendants in the main cabin noticed nothing unusual. And the pilots’ bodies stayed planted in their seats as though they were flying the aircraft. But they weren’t flying it. Their minds had been sucked into a pair of laptops.

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