More than seven decades on, the baffling disappearance of Pan American World Airways Flight 7 still preoccupies experts after debris and 19 bodies surfaced in the Pacific Ocean. Dubbed PAA-944, its demise remains an enigma, with floating remains discovered far from its scheduled Hawaiian destination on a storied global voyage.

The incident is marked by perplexing details that mire it in ambiguity – the doomed “Romance of…