On July 31st, 1944 French reconnaissance pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry took off from an airstrip on Corsica, but he never returned and was never heard from again. Since then, his disappearance has become as mysterious as that of Amelia Earhart. Recently though, some amateur archaeologists seem to have been able to piece together what happened to this French pilot.
For more on this solved mystery:
NY Times: Clues to the Mystery of a Writer Pilot Who Disappeared
