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Bermuda Triangle in the last 500 years, over
1000 ships and aircraft have entered the Bermuda
Triangle and mysteriously vanished. It is the deadliest
place on Earth for planes and boats. The Bermuda
Triangle is an area of water about 500,000 square miles
in size. One tip of the triangle starts from Miami, Florida
and extends northeast towards the island of Bermuda.
The next side of the triangle then runs straight south
towards the Puerto Rico and then turns back northeast
up to Florida.
The story of Flight 19 is one of the most
incredible cases of Bermuda Triangle disappearances. In
the early afternoon of December 5, 1945, five American
military aircraft with 14 men aboard departed from a
naval base in Florida on a training flight. These aircraft
were called Avengers, and they were among the
sturdiest and most reliable aircraft in the world at the
time. Commander Charles Taylor, an experienced pilot,
was supposed to lead the flight east from the Florida
coastline, which would take them into the Bermuda
Triangle. The sky was clear, and it was a perfect day for
flying but problems began about 90 minutes after
takeoff.
Taylor radioed back to his base at 3:40 p.m.
that he was lost, and his plane’s compass was not
working. This should not have been a problem as the
normal procedure for going home was to simply fly west
until they returned to the U.S. coast. the men of Flight
19, however, never returned home and the airplanes
seemed to have simply vanished. The final radio
messages from Flight 19 were very odd. One pilot
stated, “Everything looks strange. Even the ocean.”
Another one said, “It looks like we’re entering white
water. We’re completely lost.” A rescue plane flew into
the Bermuda Triangle to try and find the men, but it
crashed and all 13 men on board were killed. Later on, a
Navy official stated that Flight 19 “flew off to Mars.”
Flight 19’s disappearance is just one of many in
the long history of the Bermuda Triangle mystery. Is
there a scientific explanation for these disappearances
or are there supernatural forces at work in the area? The
number of unanswered questions about the fate of the
planes only adds to the mystery. Did Taylor, an
experienced pilot, really make a simple navigational
mistake? If so, why didn’t any of the other men in his
flight see the error and correct it? Why has the
wreckage of the planes and the men’s bodies never
been found after all these years? The US Navy
investigated the incident in 1946 and reported that the
Flight 19 incident was a “disappearance” with the
chilling words “cause unknown” added later on.