City pilot's disappearance started Triangle legend (Bermuda Triangle)

Corpus Christi Caller-Times ^ | 11/18/05 | CAWats

[CAWats]

WASHINGTON - The disappearance of Flight 19, a Navy mission that began the myth of the Bermuda Triangle, is still unexplained but not forgotten 60 years later.

The 27 Navy airmen who disappeared somewhere off Florida's coast on Dec. 5, 1945, were honored in a House resolution Thursday. Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fla., said he hoped the gesture would help bring closure for surviving families.

What actually happened is the question that has befuddled, entertained and tormented both skeptics and believers in the Bermuda Triangle, a stretch of ocean between Puerto Rico, Bermuda and Miami that many believe is an area of supernatural phenomena.

[ExcursionGuy84]

Actually...

A long while back in my lifetime...I happened to come across a guy with a 95%-probabale hypothesis concerning Flight #19.

Apparently, according to obscure historical notes and calculations based on operating data of the TBF-5 torpedo bomber,

...FLight 19 actually may--just MAY--have actually changed course back to the west (towards land)...and ditched somewhere in Okeefenokee Swamp in Georgia.

I'll try to find the link for this guy who made several searches based on his analysis.

[NavyCanDo]

I've sailed through the Triangle on numerous occasions. I never really bought on to the idea that there is something mysterious about it. I have seen the same square mile foot print placed over the United States and other areas of ocean with as much air traffic, and guess what - within that same area, there have been just as many plane crashes, many of them never located.

Bigfoot? - Yes
Yeti? - possibly
Loch Ness Monster? - maybe
UFOs?- It could happen I guess
Mermaids? - keeping my fingers crossed
Bermuda Triangle? - Gonna have to prove it to me.

[yankeedoodledandy]

It reminds me of this movie coming out next week:

http://www.scifi.com/triangle/