James Stewart
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The skies above weren't safe either.
On Friday, March 22nd, 1957, a US Air Force flight left Micronesia for Yokata Air Force Base in Tokyo, with 57 passengers and 10 crew members on board.
The plane was a C-97 Stratofreighter, a four-engine military transport developed from the famous B-29 bomber.
With its distinctive double bubble fuselage, the C-97 was a military workhorse with a range of nearly 6,500 kilometers.
It was so reliable it remained in service for over three decades.
Now, this particular aircraft was on a scheduled military air transport service flight originating out of Travis Air Force Base in California.
It made two stopovers in Hawaii and Wake Island before setting off for Tokyo.
About 320 kilometers off the Japanese coast at 20 to 1 in the morning local time, the C-97's crew informed air traffic control of their position and that all was okay on board.
They were cruising at 2,500 meters and they never arrived at their destination.
Huge search and rescue efforts were immediately launched.
48 Air Force and Navy planes scoured an estimated 140,000 square kilometres of ocean without success, as did a fleet of US Navy and Japanese Coast Guards and fishing boats.
Search and rescue continued for eight days, but no trace of the plane or crew was ever found.
The Dragon's Triangle had claimed another victim.
And its thirst for blood wasn't over yet.
There is one last lost ship in this deadly catalogue.
The biggest one yet.
And it's the most striking story of them all.
The MV Derbyshire's final voyage began in July 1980, when she sailed from Canada to Japan, laden with nearly 160,000 tonnes of iron ore.
This was no fishing boat, no small research vessel.
The MV Derbyshire is the biggest British registered merchant ship ever to have been lost at sea.
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