Flight 19 Vanishes: Five Planes Lost in Bermuda Triangle
Five Navy bombers lifted off from Fort Lauderdale with fourteen men aboard. Two hours in, the squadron leader's compass spun uselessly. "We don't know which way is west," he radioed. "Everything looks wrong." They had fuel for four more hours. Search planes found nothing — not a single piece of wreckage, no oil slick, no life rafts. A rescue seaplane with thirteen crew vanished the same night while searching. Twenty-seven men and six aircraft gone. The Navy's explanation: the leader got disoriented, flew northeast instead of west, ran out of fuel over the Atlantic. But they never proved it. No bodies. No debris. Just ocean.
December 5, 1945
81 years ago
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