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Writer's pictureDiana Ross Sumalinog

The Mysterious Disappearance of Flight 19


Many unexplained events happen in the Bermuda triangle, such as sunken boats and aircraft that are never seen again. As a fan of mystery, I usually look on YouTube at videos of missing aircraft and ships. Tonight, I bumped into this video which I'm going to share with you later about the mysterious vanishing of "Flight 19."


On December 5, 1945, a gathering of five Avenger torpedo aircraft called 'Flight 19' disappeared with all their 14 team individuals over the Bermuda Triangle under a few baffling conditions.


The situation transpired as follows: On December 5, 1945, a group of five Avengers got the preparation task of flying east from Fort Lauderdale, Florida's flying corps base, to bombarding close to Bimini Island, and afterward flying some distance toward the north and return.


The flight took off at precisely 2:10 PM. Pilots had two hours to finish the assignment, during which length they needed to fly around 500 kilometers. At 4:00 PM, when the Avengers should be once again at the base, the regulators blocked the disturbing discussions between the commandant of Flight 19, Lieutenant Charles Taylor and

another pilot — it appears to be that the pilots lost their direction.


Afterward, Lieutenant Charles Taylor reached the base. He revealed that compasses and watches were moving faulty on the entirety of their airplane. Furthermore, this is odd since every one of these airplanes was outfitted with a severe greetings tech arrangement of hardware at that time, for example, Gyrocompasses, AN/ARR-2 Radio Command Sets, and so forth.

By and by, Commander Taylor said that he couldn't figure out where the west and the sea looked uncommon. Furthermore, further discussions didn't prompt anything. It was precisely 5:50 PM when the airbase could detect a powerless sign of Flight 19 airplanes. They were found east of New Smyrna Beach, Florida, and were far away from the territory.


Somewhere near 8:00 PM, the torpedo aircraft ran out of fuel, and they were compelled to splashdown. The further destiny of the Avengers and their pilots is obscure.


The second disappearance happened at the same time. The Martin PBM-5 Mariner plane (BuNo 59225), sent in search of the missing Plane 19, had likewise vanished. Be that as it may, the group of the tanker transport SS Gains Mill from the hunting territory revealed that they saw a massive chunk of fire dropping into the sea at a distance. Afterward, a significant blast happened around 9:15 PM. It consumed for 10 minutes, at position 28.59°N 80.25°W.


After this, many had recommended that it was maybe the heartbreaking PBM-5 Mariner. Notwithstanding, the sailor was in the best conditions and was checked by both experts and chief before taking off. So any motor failures or such were precluded.


Some estimated that a cigarette lighting inside the lodge had exploded the plane. That hypothesis was precluded as well. Since the sailors conveyed a tremendous measure of gas, smoking was rigorously restricted in flight, and nobody ought to have lit a cigarette. Truth be told, the Martin Mariner pilots nicknamed this flight the "Flying Gas Tank."


Moreover, they didn't saw any fire there and nor any trash skimming on the ocean. The water test was taken from that supposed accident territory. Yet, it didn't show any hint of oil recommending any blast.

In 2010, the Deep Sea search vessel found four Avengers lying on seabed at a profundity of 250 meters, located 20 kilometers upper east of Fort Lauderdale. Also, the fifth torpedo aircraft was discovered two kilometers from the accident site. The sideboard quantities of two of them were FT-241 and FT-87, and another two figured out how to make out just the numbers 120 and 28. The assignment of the fifth couldn't be recognized.


After specialists looked up the documents, it turns out that the five 'Avengers' called "Flight 19" did indeed vanish on fifth December of 1945. Yet, the recognizable proof numbers of the recuperated airplane and that Flight 19 didn't coordinate, except for one, FT28 ― it was the plane of authority Lieutenant Charles Taylor. That is the most exciting thing of this revelation, the leftover planes were never recorded among the missing!

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