Interesting comments by everyone. All we know for sure, is that the men and planes were never seen again. If there was bad weather it must have been very localized in the area they flew into. But in that case, why was no wreckage ever found?
And what does everyone think of the response on this thread, of one of our freepers who sailed through the Bermuda triangle and personally witness the compass go haywire?
I had heard that Flight 19 was a training mission, with experienced pilots out there. It seems odd so many experienced pilots lost their way.
No wreckage was found because it sank. Very little of a plane will float. And what little does float is subject to the current. Add in the fact that nobody knew where they were, you’ve got thousands of square miles of possible crash sites. Even these days with all the modern gadgets we have tracking planes and boats sometimes things just go down and nobody knows where, nothing ever gets found. Just gone, under the ocean, might get found by a wreck diver some day.
As for somebody’s compass going haywire, it happens. Who knows. Magnetic field. Somebody dicking around. Odd things happen all over.
Even experienced pilots get confused. And the ocean is a terrible place to have that happen. Very little in the way of landmarks. And there’s enough oddness in the overall run, like refusing to change radio channels, it really looks like somebody’s got the best of him, and they took a wrong turn to nowhere.