Ghost plane explained
A ghost plane (a term sometimes used interchangeably with ghost flight) may refer to:
- Rendition aircraft, an aircraft used by national governments to move prisoners internationally
- Ghost flight (commercial aviation), an empty or near-empty flight carried out to preserve a landing slot
- Regarding an aviation accident, a "ghost plane" or "ghost flight" occurs when the plane, already in the air, suffers some type of accident that has incapacitated the crew and passengers but continues to fly until it runs out of fuel and crashes
- "Ghost Plane", an episode of Canadian TV series Mayday about Helios Airways Flight 522; see List of Mayday episodes
