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December 5: General Interest

1945 : Aircraft squadron lost in the Bermuda Triangle 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.
By this time, several land radar stations finally determined that Flight 19 was
somewhere north of the Bahamas and east of the Florida coast, and at 7:27 p.m.
a search and rescue Mariner aircraft took off with a 13-man crew. Three minutes
later, the Mariner aircraft radioed to its home base that its mission was
underway. The Mariner was never heard from again. Later, there was a report
from a tanker cruising off the coast of Florida of a visible explosion seen at
7:50 p.m.
The disappearance of the 14 men of Flight 19 and the 13 men of the Mariner led
to one of the largest air and seas searches to that date, and hundreds of ships
and aircraft combed thousands of square miles of the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf
of Mexico, and remote locations within the interior of Florida. No trace of the
bodies or aircraft was ever found. Although naval officials maintained that the
remains of the six aircraft and 27 men were not found because stormy weather
destroyed the evidence, the story of the "Lost Squadron" helped cement the
legend of the Bermuda Triangle, an area of the Atlantic Ocean where ships and
aircraft are said to disappear without a trace. The Bermuda Triangle is said to
stretch from the southern U.S. coast across to Bermuda and down to the Atlantic
coast of Cuba and Santo Domingo.

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