I know the second one, but 6.5 years too late for you. It's called "Sole Survivor" and is loosely based on the real-life story of the B-24 bomber called "Lady Be Good", which disappeared in WW2 on a bombing mission over Italy and was presumed lost at sea. It actually overshot the airfield located on the Libyan coast and kept flying deeper and deeper into the Sahara until it ran out of fuel and crashed. Oil prospectors discovered the craft in 1960. The guns were still operable and coffee in thermos bottles were supposedly still drinkable. The crewmen who survived the crash tried walking out of the desert but all died. (Their skeletons were later found by a recovery team.)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065007/
SPOILER ALERT
In the movie, the dead crewmen are now all ghosts who pass their time at the crash site playing baseball. The Air Force recovery crew that investigates the crash site finds the bodies of the crewmen one-by-one and as they do, the ghost of that particular man disappears. The body of one crewman is never discovered, as it is trapped underneath the wreckage and the recovery team never finds it. As the story ends, there's just that one ghost left all by himself - with no one left to play baseball with as the scene fades to black.
The movie title "Sole Survivor" not only refers to the last ghost but also to a character played by Richard Basehart. He was a crewman on the plane who, in a moment of cowardice, bailed out of the plane and was rescued while his crewmen went on to die. His character is eventually promoted to a general but discovery of the plane means that his secret might also be discovered.
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