The Bermuda Triangle is a mysterious location where there have been several
encounters of missing planes or ships who have entered the vicinity. The
triangle is off of the southeast coast of the United States and the vertices
are located at Miami, Florida, Bermuda, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Navy
does not recognize the area as the Bermuda Triangle. However, several Naval
ships and planes have disappeared when making a trip through the Bermuda
Triangle. In particular, five TBM Avenger Torpedo Bombers, named Flight 19,
were lost at flight on December 5, 1945 at 2:10 p.m. They started from U.S.
Naval Air Station in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and were going to end at the same
place. Their task was to do some overwater navigational training with certain
commands. The leading plane was the senior qualified flight instructor. The track
they were taking took them over the Bermuda Triangle with weather conditions
consisting of scattered showers with only 6-8 miles of visibility and a
moderate to rough sea. These conditions were typical for the naval training
flights.
The instructor sent a radio message to one of the training pilots around 4
p.m. saying he was unaware of his location. The airplanes compasses were not
working and the radio signals were not coming through because of interference
of Cuban stations, weather conditions, and static. It was assumed they were
lost east of the Florida coastline. The planes were never seen again. It was
calculated that they would have been out of gas by 8 p.m. and the conditions
were not favorable for a water landing. There was an effort to find this flight
until the evening of December 10, 1945, but no evidence of the missing planes
were found. On December 5, 1945, a plane was sent out to search for the missing
TBMs, but was never heard from after it was launched. That plane or crew was
never found either.
source:
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq15-1.htm
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