5-12-45: 6 Aircraft Lost in the Triangle Youth

08.09
 
Ant - In the past 66 years, six U.S. military planes lost in the waters known as the Bermuda Triangle. A total of 27 crew and U.S. military personnel up to now no longer known.

According to the pages of The History Channel television station, at 14:10 December 5, 1945, five Avenger torpedo bombers U.S. Navy task force incorporated in the Flight 19 took off from Navy Base Ft. Lauderdale in Florida for a routine training mission for three hours.

They were scheduled to fly the farthest to 120 miles to the east and 73 miles to the north before returning to the runway. However, they never come back.

Two hours after the flight, squadron leader, an experienced flying in the area of ​​Bermuda for more than six months, reported that the main compass and compass backup used to fail so that the position he is not known.

The pilot of another aircraft had experienced similar problems with their compasses while flying in the waters of the Bermuda Triangle. That was the term for a region in the Atlantic ocean area of ​​1.5 million mil2 or 4 million km2, which form a triangle line between Bermuda, United Kingdom territory as a point on the north, Puerto Rico, the territory of the United States as a point in the south and Miami, the state of Florida, the United States as a point on the west, as quoted from the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

AL Party also uses radio communication to find out the location of the lost squadron. However, never succeeded. More than two hours later, at around 18:20, the air base to detect the radio communications of squadron leader. He ordered the men to an emergency landing because their plane ran out of fuel.

At that time, details of The History Channel, the headquarters of the radar successfully detected the presence of the Flight 19 aircraft squadrons. They are located around the northern Bahamas and east coast of Florida.

At 19:27, the aircraft and the Navy deployed a rescue team with 13 personnel strength to seek and to save their colleagues who lost. However, the SAR team also lost contact. Later, came the report of the crew of a tanker that was off the coast of Florida, who claims to hear the sound of explosions.

The loss of 14 crew of Flight 19 squadron and the 13-member rescue team forced the Navy to deploy massive search mission. Hundreds of ships deployed, but they never found the plane and crew are missing.

AL leaders finally concluded that the six aircraft and 27 personnel because they were not found to be victims of raging storm, which helped destroy evidence. However, the story of "Lost Squadron" it adds to the list of Bermuda Triangle mystery. The region became one of the areas that are dangerous to aircraft and ships that pass.

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