Posted on 12/05/2021 8:23:23 AM PST by DFG
At 2:10 p.m., five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers comprising Flight 19 take off from the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida on a routine three-hour training mission. Flight 19 was scheduled to take them due east for 120 miles, north for 73 miles, and then back over a final 120-mile leg that would return them to the naval base. They never returned.
Two hours after the flight began, the leader of the squadron, who had been flying in the area for more than six months, reported that his compass and back-up compass had failed and that his position was unknown. The other planes experienced similar instrument malfunctions. Radio facilities on land were contacted to find the location of the lost squadron, but none were successful. After two more hours of confused messages from the fliers, a distorted radio transmission from the squadron leader was heard at 6:20 p.m., apparently calling for his men to prepare to ditch their aircraft simultaneously because of lack of fuel.
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I’m not saying it was Martians.
Most likely caught in a hurricane.
Possibly. We did not have weather radar back in those days. Very easy for a hurricane to develop in the ocean and peter out without anybody really knowing it ever existed.
It’s okay, they were returned in 1977 on top of Devil’s Tower.
Or even a very strong tropical storm. Or they just fouled up navigation somehow.
We don’t get hurricanes in winter.
I was there for it.
There is no Bermuda Triangle. It’s a myth made to sell a grocery store paper. any similarly trafficked piece of coast has just as many “mysterious” disappearances. Oceans eat things. Just how it goes.
So some oceans are just more voracious than others...? ;-)
No. Like I said, the disappearance rate is the same in the Bermuda triangle as any other same sized same trafficked spot of ocean. Only this spot happened to be near a half assed “journalist” trying to sell papers.
Actually, I believe it was the desert in Mexico.
Ironically, watching that movie right now (haven’t gotten to that scene yet).
Oh how I remember that one. It was a Doozie.
Between having no weather radar and flying in the waters east of Florida (notorious for highly changeable weather), no wonder that squadron was lost.
Not likely on December 5th.
But possible. it’s either weather or navigational error.
They trusted the force rather than their instruments.
I would guess spatial disorientation.
The compasses were probably all correct but the lead pilot somehow didn’t believe his.
He flew by seat of his pants instead of sound aviation techniques.
> any similarly trafficked piece of coast has just as many “mysterious” disappearances <
Bingo. But that doesn’t explain how my ex-wife made my money disappear.
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