Bermuda Triangle dead honored

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The disappearance of Flight 19, a Navy mission that began the myth of the Bermuda Triangle, is still unexplained, but not forgotten, 60 years later.

The 27 Navy airmen who disappeared somewhere off Florida's coast on December 5, 1945, were honored in a House resolution Thursday. Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Florida, said he hoped the gesture would help bring closure for surviving families.

What happened is the question that has befuddled, entertained and tormented skeptics and those who believe that the Bermuda Triangle -- a stretch of ocean between Puerto Rico, Bermuda and Miami -- is an area of supernatural phenomena.

"There's just so many weird things here that experienced pilots would have not acted this way," Shaw said. "Something happened out there."

Five U.S. Navy Avenger airplanes left the Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Station on a routine training mission over the Bahamas. The five pilots and nine crewmen, led by instructor Lt. Charles Taylor, were to practice bombing and low-level strafing on small coral shoals 60 miles east of the naval station. They were then to turn north to practice mapping and then southwest to home. The entire flight, which Air Station pilots took three or four times a day, should have lasted three hours.

Radio reports overheard by ground control and other airplanes indicate the compasses on Taylor's plane malfunctioned 90 minutes into the mission.

With no instruments to guide him over the open ocean, Taylor thought the flight had drifted off-course and was actually south over the Florida Keys. As a result, he directed the planes to fly due north to hit land.

"He was not in the Keys, he was out in the end of the Bahama chain," said David White, who at the time was a flight instructor stationed at Fort Lauderdale. "When he went north, he was going out to the wide ocean."

Just about the time the squadron was to have landed back at Fort Lauderdale, a last radio message from Taylor was received: They would keep flying "until we hit the beach or run out of gas." Because of weakening radio signals, no reading could be made on the direct location of the planes.

Radio messages show that some of the students wanted to fly east, said Allan McElhiney, president of the Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Historical Association.

Yet military discipline overruled.

"You stay with the leader, that's the Navy way," McElhiney said.

The mystery deepened when a few hours later a Navy rescue airplane, a Martin Mariner with 13 crewmen, also vanished. A passing ship reported seeing bright lights in the sky indicating what could be an in-air explosion, but that could not be confirmed.

The next morning, White became part of one of the largest rescue missions in American naval history. Civilian vessels and units of the Coast Guard, Army and Navy scoured an area of more than 250,000 square miles, but no wreckage was found.

"In all the times I remember, we never had one plane missing," White said. "Five, all qualified, pilots missing at one time? I couldn't believe it."

Even the official review offered little explanation. The Navy Board of Inquiry report concluded, "We are not able to even make a good guess as to what happened."

Did Flight 19 turn east? Was landfall ever reached? Where was the debris?

Several ocean expeditions, documentaries and books offer varying theories, ranging from paranormal activities to sightings of alien activity. The SCI-FI channel will broadcast a new documentary November 27.

Bermuda Triangle author Gian Quasar believes electromagnetic anomalies in the area's atmosphere led to the demise of Flight 19. Such "electronic fog" can cause needles on compasses and other instruments to spin. This fog comes and goes and can cause pilots to become disoriented, Quaser said.

"It's something that will seize the aircraft and travel with you," he said. "You are not flying into the fog, it is flying with you."

In the years that David White flew out of Fort Lauderdale, none of his instrumentation ever malfunctioned. He thinks the planes crash-landed east of Florida and the airmen died on impact or drowned in the stormy waters. And the Mariner? That type of plane had such a history of accidents it was known as the "flying gas can," he said.

"It was pure and simple pilot error," said Joan Pietrucha, the niece of Howell Thompson, one of the navigators on Flight 19. "I don't believe in wacky compasses."

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[Prometheus]

I was always interested in the Bermuda Triangle, Thanks amazing new storys i guess i can read over i saved them and printed it :) ausom nice find.

[ThisSiteHasLostItsCharm]

they should do a live tv broadcast and travel to the triangle area....

[Hum]

they should do a live tv broadcast and travel to the triangle area....

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But they might disappear. :shifty:

[~WinGz~]

if id make an adventure to the bermuda triangle id make sure to ahve a very long rope :laugh: and ride a rowboat throught it. Maybe ill find something

[Techno_Funky]

if id make an adventure to the bermuda triangle id make sure to ahve a very long rope?:laugh:: and ride a rowboat throught it. Maybe ill find something

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lol yeah nice idea and yeah dont forget your laptop

who knows google might be serving WI FI connections there

you might just login to neowin from there and post your experience

:ninja::

anyways

i was always fascinated by this bermuda triangle since school

i had read a book on it by Charles Berlitz from my school library

my friends had told me about this and got me interested

:))

[sundayx Veteran]

when i was a kid, i hear these stuff from my dad, scares the **** outa me.

[Hum]

i had read a book on it by Charles Berlitz from my school library

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I heard from UFO author, John Wallace Spencer, once, that while talking to author Charles Berlitz, that he confessed that some of the stuff in Berlitz's books, he simply made up -- like the Philadelphia Experiment. :blink:

[temple_treefrog]

I thought someone said over the radio "Don't send a rescue team".... :s

[Prometheus]

lol yeah nice idea and yeah dont forget your laptop

who knows google might be serving WI FI connections there

you might just login to neowin from there and post your experience

:ninja:

anyways

i was always fascinated by this bermuda triangle since school

i had read a book on it by Charles Berlitz from my school library

my friends had told me about this and got me interested

:)

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HAHAHA amazing !!!!!

[-=Monkey Boy=-]

I do enjoy tales of the triangle, it is a werid place, but in the last few years not much has happend so maybe there isn't a myth.

[Komet]

It's the most heavily traveled ocean region on earth, statistics alone will prove that there will be more "mysterious" events there than anywhere else. 1000 unexplained disappearences in 100 years, considering the number of ships and aircraft that travel that area, is completely within the normal course of events. There is nothing strange happening there.

It's like the UFO thing. Now that almost everyone has a video camera or phone camera the number of unexplained "unidentified flying objects" has dropped significantly.

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There is nothing strange happening there.

It's like the UFO thing. Now that almost everyone has a video camera or phone camera the number of unexplained "unidentified flying objects" has dropped significantly.

Surviving witnesses will disagree with you; the sudden strange fogs, green glows, vortex tunnels, time gaps.

Watch the Sci-fi channels new show on the Bermuda area. ;)

[Komet]

Surviving witnesses will disagree with you; the sudden strange fogs, green glows, vortex tunnels, time gaps.

Watch the Sci-fi channels new show on the Bermuda area. ;)

Strange fogs and green glows are not uncommon in nature, vortex tunnels and time gaps are not only uncommon they are nonexistant. If you depend on SciFi for your physics lessons you will fail class.

Don't get me wrong here...I believe in life that is alien to this planet but I don't believe in UFOs. I think Sir Issac Asimov's view of alien intelligence is the correct view.

"The energy requirements for interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across the vast depths of space would do so only in order to play games with us over a period of decades. If they want to make contact, they would make contact; if not, they would save their energy and go elsewhere."

"Assuming there are one hundred advanced intelligences in our own galaxy and that they are evenly spread throughout the galaxy, the nearest one would be about 10,000 light-years away. To cover that distance by any means we know of would take at least 10,000 years and very likely much longer. Why should anyone want to make such long journeys just to poke around curiously?"

I believe in forces on earth beyond our understanding but I don't believe in the Bermuda Triangle. As I said before a region where ships and aircraft pass through at a rate far higher than anywhere else on earth will experience a "mysterious loss" factor higher than anywhere else on earth. That is simple statistics. Mysterious losses are an extremely small but regular event in the transportation industry. In an area where the transportation routes converge the "losses" will be higher.

The two mentioned "phenomena" are far too studied for someone to have not managed to achieved scientifically provable evidence of the existance of said "phenomena".

[Lqv2015]

I think your science needs a little upgrade. If you have been keeping up with anything new in science these days, you'll know the possibilities of parallel universes, different dimensions, & wormholes may very well exist. So for an advance civilization to find a way to manipulate physics and travel between stars throught wormholes, then they could very possibly be here by now. Not to mention any aliens from other dimensions crossing through ours. Simply put, the universe is far from our understandings, and we're just too young of a specie to fully understand it all yet.

I saw the Bermuda Triangle special on Sci-Fi channel a few days ago. Very interesting stuff.

[Komet]

I think your science needs a little upgrade. If you have been keeping up with anything new in science these days, you'll know the possibilities of parallel universes, different dimensions, & wormholes may very well exist. So for an advance civilization to find a way to manipulate physics and travel between stars throught wormholes, then they could very possibly be here by now. Not to mention any aliens from other dimensions crossing through ours. Simply put, the universe is far from our understandings, and we're just too young of a specie to fully understand it all yet.

I saw the Bermuda Triangle special on Sci-Fi channel a few days ago. Very interesting stuff.

I am well aware of the various theories postulating multiple dimensions, these have basis in solid scientific facts. I actually am excited in the possibilites said theories entail but these theories view extra dimensions in ways that are far different from what the general population and the sci-fi community view them. The dimensions theorized in physics are simply more positions in space-time as opposed to a place that someone can visit or leave and visit here. I can't really say that parallel universes and wormholes share the same acceptence in scientific communities although wormholes are also gaining acceptance. To make the leap of faith that such physical laws can produce alien visitation, and it is a leap of faith, is a stretch from my point of view.

I may eventually be proven wrong, I actually hope that is so. This planet is a very troubled place and an outside view could perhaps aid us, but of course the old "rule of thumb" may come into play here:

"When a more advanced civilization comes into contact with a less advanced civilization, the less advanced civilization always suffers from the experience."