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@Xwejnusgozo: I fully understand your point, what would you suggest? Right now I have been going on assertion of notability based on x event article status and/or notable passengers involved. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 14:19, 8 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Knowledgekid87: I think that the "missing" label is itself difficult to define. The ICAO source at the lead of the article states that a plane is missing when "the wreckage has not been located" - however that does not define how much wreckage needs to be found for it to be regarded as no longer "missing" but "previously missing". For example, would Air France Flight 447 be regarded as a "previously missing" aircraft? The plane crashed on 1 June 2009, the first bodies were recovered on 6 June and the first wreckage on 7 June. The main wreckage was not found until almost two years later in 2011. Would it be regarded as missing for six days, or for almost two years? I see that this case is not included in this list, so I am inclined to wonder why not? Note that cases such as the Dixmude which were missing for less than six days are included.
What about bodies recovered from the site? For example, was the 1968 Indian Air Force An-12 crash missing until 2003 (first bodies found) or 2018 (wreckage found)? According to the ICAO definition of "missing", this would be regarded as missing until 2018, yet the article states that it was missing until 2003. Once again, why is this?
I would be inclined to only listing cases which were missing for a long time, such as the 1968 IAF crash, however I think more opinions on this are needed.
