Bermuda Triangle events
Bermuda Triangle theories
Bermuda Triangle
Flight 19 vanishes
Flight 19 was a training flight of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers (with 14 airmen) that disappeared on December 5, 1945, most probably while flying over the Atlantic. The squadron’s flight plan was scheduled to take them due east from Fort Lauderdale for 141 miles, north for 73 miles, and then back over a final 140-mile leg to complete the exercise that was suppose to accustom the crews with navigation over the sea.
The flight never returned to base. The disappearance is attributed by navy investigators to navigational error leading to the aircraft running out of fuel, but there are some strange stories connected to it.
The problems started when obviously compasses aboard the planes started to show strange readings. Then their dialogue between pilots of Flight 19 were overheard by pilot of Flight 74, who was trying to help them to find the way back. Ground operators were trying to determine if the flight leader plane was equipped with a standard YG transmitter that would allow to use triangulation of radar signal to determine their position, but the contact was fading and communication was intermittent.
Last heard communication indicated that the fuel was running out and they were preparing to land on the surface of the ocean. Not a single part of the five planes were ever found despite the large scale search operation. There are theories that since their navigation instruments were faulty they even might have ended up over Gulf of Mexico on the other side of Florida, but again there are no evidence to support that.
There are rumours that suggest that some of the messages coming from Flight 19 that were overheard by other pilots or ground radio receivers could have been interpreted as the pilots from Flight 19 did encountered some strange phenomena or even UFOs. The messages would read "Don’t follow us, they look like they’re from outer space", but no official records support that claims.
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