Bermuda Triangle: what happened to Flight 19? - BBC

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Bermuda Triangle - Flight 19

Bermuda Triangle - Flight 19

Guest Author - Lisa Shea

One of the most famous Bermuda Triangle disappearances involves Flight 19. Happening in 1945, this took place in a modern era of radio communication and radar.

This flight involved five bombers that were stationed in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Four of the five bombers was pilotted by trainees. On December 5 1945, the group flew a training mission out over the Bermuda Triangle area. The bombers, known as "Iron Birds", were a very heavy 14,000 pounds each.

The flight left at 2pm, with about 6 hours of fuel. The weather turned cloudy and rainy, and by 4pm the base heard the lead pilot calling to one of the other pilots, saying that he was having problems with his compass. This is typical for the Triangle, as magnetic issues with the region are well known. In addition, as they were out of sight of land, the lead pilot got disoriented and thought he was over the Keys, when actually he was probably over islands east of Florida. As a result, the more he tried to fly north "back to Florida", the more out to sea he got.

Transmission between the other planes indicates that the other pilots had figured this out - but that the leader refused to listen and stubbornly lead them on. The ground stations tried their best to help out. Through careful work, the ComGulf Sea Frontier Evaluation Center managed to get a positional fix on the group, east of Florida. But the pilots were so far from land that they could not hear the messages sent to them.

Unfortunately for the group, the planes never made it back to land. By the time they ran out of fuel, it would have been quite dark in heavy seas.

The weather was so bad that even the search / rescue attempts were hampered. One of the planes sent out to search crashed into the sea and was lost - this was a PBM plane.

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Bermuda Triangle Facts - or Fiction?

Bermuda Triangle Facts - or Fiction?

One of the few Bermuda Triangle Facts that can be confirmed is the Bermuda Triangle location. In fact, the location of the Bermuda Triangle is somewhat arbitrary as well. There are no official boundaries. However, the triangle is generally assumed to run from Bermuda to Puerto Rico to Miami and back to Bermuda.

A fact that is unexplained about the Bermuda Triangle is that electro-magnetic compasses that normally point to the magnetic north pole, point to the true north pole when used inside the area of the Bermuda Triangle. This phenomena happens in only one place other than the Bermuda Triangle – the Devil’s Sea off the east coast of Asia.

The term Bermuda Triangle was in fact first used in an Argosy Magazine article written by Vincent H. Gaddis in 1964. Since that time, a number of “nicknames” have immerged for the Bermuda Triangle – Limbo of the Lost, Hoodoo Sea, and even Devil’s Triangle – some coined in literature.

One fact is undeniable about the Bermuda Triangle. There have been a number of strange and sometimes unexplained disappearances in the Triangle. The tale of Flight 19 – a group of five Navy torpedo bombers and one search plane disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle area (perhaps!) – is the most notorious of these.

However, there have been strange occurrences observed in the area of the Bermuda Triangle as well. Even as far back as the 1492 crossing of the Atlantic by Christopher Columbus, these have been recorded. Columbus documented in his logs of strange occurrences with his compass in the area that we now consider the Bermuda Triangle.

Another fact about the Bermuda Triangle that is undeniable is that the area has claimed over 1,000 lives in the past 100 years. Some of these are a result of “human error” in navigating the area. However there are always suspicious or unexplained disappearances happening in the Bermuda Triangle.

There is a vast array of lore surrounding the existence of the Bermuda Triangle. Some of this stems from the idea that with-in the Bermuda Triangle lies the lost city of Atlantis in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Off the coast of Bimini, there is a set of underwater steps believed to be part of that civilization. Little exploration can be done because the Bermuda Triangle includes some of the deepest trenches in the Atlantic Ocean – much too deep to explore.

Today, thousands of passages are made through the Bermuda Triangle every year. Virtually every Caribbean cruise originating from the east coast of North America passes through part of the Bermuda Triangle. Modern planes fly to the Caribbean hotspots and from southern United States to Europe through the Bermuda Triangle. Perhaps the next time you travel through the Bermuda Triangle by air or sea you will think of the lost civilization of Atlantis and her mighty power?

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Myth & Facts About Bermuda Triangle Mystery

Myth & Facts About Bermuda Triangle Mystery

The Bermuda Triangle is unavoidably associated with disappearances of aircraft's and vessels. Several theories in regard to the strange phenomenon have been put forward, which include time travel, UFO's, missing time, as well as wormholes. Uncommon incidents have however been reported by several people, while they were on their way through the Bermuda triangle.

Several myths have been associated with this mysterious area. Some of them are as follows:

Myth 1:

Bermuda is an area centrally located within the Sargasso, including the area of the Sargasso Sea, having the uninformed assumes that the two are synonymous.

Fact 1:

This is a clear case of complete exaggeration. The area is situated much different from the myths.

Myth 2

Investigations have not been able to produced scientific evidence of any unusual phenomena involved in the disappearances.

Fact 2

It needs to be mentioned here that one would have to witness a disappearance in order to determine what was directly involved. This has obviously not been done, and such a comment, as a result, is a lame one.

There have been no scientific expeditions to investigate the overall Triangle. Independent people, often possessing degrees in one of the sciences, have made their own, sometimes truncated study. Most have produced some very interesting discoveries. Dr. Zink's observations at Biminis revealed unexplained magnetic variations in the compass at the precise time each year in early August (consistent in some ways with Yelkin's theories). Wilbert Smith's studies revealed areas of "reduced bindings" in the magnetic field that came and went. But as for any scientific expeditions into the Triangle to take readings or tests or to see if something would happen, none has ever been done.

The Bermuda triangle has baffled people from all across the globe. With more and more theories and explanations coming up, the confusion continues.

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