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80 years ago, Minnesota and North Dakota aviators got lost in Bermuda Triangle mystery
The Navy concluded navigational error, worsening weather, and fuel exhaustion caused the disappearance of five TBM Avenger aircraft during a routine training mission.
- On Dec. 5, 1945, the U.S. Navy attributed Flight 19's loss to navigational error worsened by weather and fuel exhaustion, after five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers vanished near the Bermuda Triangle.
- The training mission was a routine navigation exercise planned near Bimini, Bahamas, departing Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale in a postwar context three months after the war ended.
- Radio logs show static and overlapping voices, including one aircraft saying it did not know their position; lead pilot Charles C. Taylor misidentified the squadron's location and ordered course corrections.
- Within hours the U.S. Navy launched a search scouring more than 250,000 square miles, and a PBM-5 Mariner is believed to have exploded, leaving families devastated and no wreckage recovered.
- The incident became central to the Bermuda Triangle legend and surfaced repeatedly in books and films, while federal agencies such as NOAA say no more disappearances occur there than in other busy ocean areas.
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80 years ago, Minnesota and North Dakota aviators got lost in Bermuda Triangle mystery
On Dec. 5, 1945, Americans were finally exhaling. For the first time in five years, Christmas would arrive without war. Soldiers were heading home by air and by sea. But before battle-weary soldiers could feel the bitter winds of a northern winter — or the sweet warmth of Grandma’s homemade kuchen or rømmegrøt — they had to survive a restless, unpredictable Atlantic Ocean. Five Navy planes vanished that day off Florida’s coast. And farther north…
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