McElhiney, Allan. "Flight 19 the Lost Avengers". Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum. Archived from the original on August 16, 2018 . Retrieved April 11, 2018. Flight leader Lt. Charles C. Taylor had mistakenly believed that the small islands he passed over were the Florida Keys, that his flight was over the Gulf of Mexico, and that heading northeast would take them to Florida. It was determined that Taylor had passed over the Bahamas as scheduled, and he did, in fact, lead his flight to the northeast over the Atlantic. The report noted that some subordinate officers did likely know their approximate position as indicated by radio transmissions stating that flying west would result in reaching the mainland. a b c d e f g h i j k l McDonell, Michael (June 1973). "Lost Patrol" (PDF). Naval Aviation News: 8–16. Archived from the original on January 27, 2012 . Retrieved January 8, 2014. {{ cite journal}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link)

Take the disappearance of Charles Taylor and the five planes which the US Navy investigated. The investigation found that as it got dark outside and the weather changed, Taylor had navigated the planes to the wrong location. A piece of debris from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was displayed during a remembrance ceremony in Kuala Lampur in March last year, to mark the fifth anniversary of the plane’s disappearance. Fazry Ismail/EPA Moving on from old tales

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Records showed that training accidents between 1942 and 1945 accounted for the loss of 95 aviation personnel from NAS Fort Lauderdale. [18] In 1992, another expedition located scattered debris on the ocean floor, but nothing could be identified. In the 2000s, searchers [ who?] expanded their search area farther east, into the Atlantic Ocean, but the remains of Flight 19 have still not been confirmed found. [ citation needed] Cochran-Smith, Marilyn (2003). "Bermuda Triangle: dichotomy, mythology, and amnesia". Journal of Teacher Education. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications. 54 (4): 275. doi: 10.1177/0022487103256793. S2CID 145707847.

Taves, Ernest H. (1978). The Skeptical Inquirer. 111 (1): 75–76. {{ cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= ( help)Vanner, Antoine (2020-05-01). "Training Tragedies: the Losses of HMS Eurydice and HMS Atalanta". The Dawlish Chronicles . Retrieved 2021-07-27. If we don’t accept his paranormal theories, he hopes we can accept other phenomena cited around the Bermuda Triangle. He reports bizarre lighting around the Bahamas, large sea monsters, glowing patches of ocean, and deep, hollow abysses. Eyewitness accounts support his descriptions, as those who have survived their brush with odd phenomena in the area recall feeling there is something off and unnatural about it. They also report feeling trapped in a whirlpool or having no recollection of the events. As noted in the report, Taylor refused to change the radio training frequency to the search and rescue radio frequency. (The training frequency was difficult to use because of interference from Cuban radio stations and also a radio carrier wave.) The Devil's Triangle (1974), Richard Winer ( ISBN 0-553-10688-0); this book sold well over a million copies by the end of its first year; to date there have been at least 17 printings. Lieutenant A. L. Russell, in the U.S. Coast Guard's official response to Bermuda Triangle inquiries, writes: "It has been our experience that the combined forces of nature and the unpredictability of mankind outdo science-fiction stories many times each year." Disappearance of Flight 19

This satellite image of the large disturbance centered east of Bermuda in the Atlantic Ocean. (Image credit: National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS).) The Avenger was known as an extremely rugged plane. Pilots sometimes called them "Iron Birds" or Grumman ironworks, said Mark Evans, a historian at the Naval Aviation History branch of the Naval Historical Center. The biggest issues in that area normally are hurricanes, but it's not particularly a spawning area for storms," said Dave Feit, chief of the marine forecast branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Marine Prediction Center. Taylor also had a history of getting lost while flying. He had twice needed to be rescued in the Pacific Ocean. The navy itself had a good idea of what had happened ahead of the disappearance.

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Flight 19 is featured in the 1977 science-fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. In the film's opening, the aircraft are discovered in the Sonoran Desert, in pristine condition with full fuel tanks, one of several mysterious events that imply extraterrestrial activity. In the film's ending scene, the crew return to Earth from the alien mothership, seemingly the same age as at their disappearance. In March 2012, Hawkes was reported as saying it had suited both him (and indirectly his investors) and the Pentagon to make the story go away because it was an expensive and time-consuming distraction, and that, while admitting he had found no conclusive evidence, a statistician he consulted said it was Flight 19. [14] a b c "Frequently Asked Questions: Bermuda Triangle Fact Sheet" (PDF). US Department of Defense. 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-11-21. But though the mechanism itself makes sense, there’s no evidence of any recent methane release from the area around the Bermuda Triangle. The last time anything similar happened in the region was around 15,000 years ago , according to U.S. Geological Survey geologist Bill Dillon.