Damn. I’ve been hoping Flight 19 would show up from one of these UFOs everyone has been going ape shiite over.
I saw a program 50 years ago on PBS NOVA. It debunked much of the Bermuda Triangle nonsense. It said the commander of that flight 19 had been drinking before the flight took off. a little later he saw the Bahamas and thought he was over the Keys and told the flight to turn to the East to get back over land which took them out to sea.
As for the search plane that disappeared, it was a refueling plane and reeked of gasoline. In the pressure of the search one of the crewmen probably lit a cigarette and Kaboom! as people on the ground saw a big flash of light in the sky at that time.
I would rather truse NOVA than anything Berlitz says.