[cripplecreek]

In that context the Bermuda triangle doesn’t appear to vacuum up planes at any great rate.

[rlmorel]

We had an A-6 Intruder that was flying out to meet us, and never arrived. I couldn't remember the date, so I looked it up online:

Just disappeared. No radio call. No sign of distress. Just flew out and never reached us.

I distinctly remember being on the flight deck, and word was going around that there was a plane overdue, and then...nothing. Just never came. We never heard a word about it. I don't remember where the ship was, but I did recall someone saying it disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle flying out to us. It was a windswept, gray day, a few rays of sunlight breaking through the thick clouds here and there, but mostly cold and gray. Funny how that just stuck with me all these years.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Years ago I saw a list of all the aircraft and planes that supposedly had disappeared in THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE!

A quick check of the last locations showed only three of the planes or ships disappeared in the BT. The rest disappeared OUTSIDE of the triangle.

[Rodd OB]

I was stationed at Dover AFB in the early sixties and we lost a C-133A number 62002. All hands lost. That was the aircraft that I was assigned. Lost 3 friends. It was headed to Lajas in the Canary Islands. It was reported lost in the Bermuda triangle. But I believe the Bermuda triangle is BS. Still haunts me. My best friend departed the acft. after returning from Turkey. The man who took his place perished. My best friend is gone now. Died in the nineties at age 50.

[Paladin2]

The Caribbean and SE Asia look like bad bets as places to fly.

North Atlantic too.

[FAA]

Yeah, I’ve read repeatedly that the number of airplanes that “disappear” in the Triangle is really no different than anywhere else on the planet.

It’s make for some good shows on History/Discovery/Science/etc. though.

[FredZarguna]

In that context the Bermuda triangle doesn’t appear to vacuum up planes at any great rate.

That is because ... it doesn't.

Read this this book when I was in high school. A reference librarian put together all of the cases, looked at how many were actually mysterious, and compared the so-called Bermuda Triangle to other areas in the world with similar traffic and weather. The result: The Bermuda Triangle is no more dangerous or mysterious than any other patch of ocean with the same characteristics.

Worth a read.

The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved

[JSteff]

Well it is obviously flawed. Sometime in the 70's or 70's a South African plane 747 dual use cargo passenger then down east of Madagascar and South of India. It went down in the Indian Ocean. Very similar to this one but they only had a cryptic message of minor smoke in the passenger section.

Took them a couple of weeks to find just a little wreckage floating in the Indian Ocean. Took them several months to find the location of the black boxes and could not get them for a couple of years IIRC. Then they wanted to use an ROV to see and recover them but the fiber optic cable was the longest ever made! They eventually did that.

That took several years to pull together and then the finally recovered only a minor amount of the plane. Boeing stopped production and sale of that model. (747 XXX Combi?)

Many think it was weapons that South Africa as shipping in because if the embargo. Many thought and still think it was weapons that started the cabin fire in the cargo section. However none can afford to dive that deep to recover any evidence. It is deeper than the Titanic!

[laotzu]

The largest insurer of commercial airplanes and ships in the world is Lloyds of London.

If the 'Triangle' truly represented any greater risk, there would be an additional surcharge for any operating in that area. Of course, there is not.