09-26-2022, 12:16 AM
Mysterious Stories
The Loss of Flight 19
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1945. December 5th. 2:00PM.
Five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers leave from Florida on a training mission, conducting bombing runs on a set of islands. On the way there, no issues. Problems start on the way back, even though the weather is relatively calm with only a few scattered showers.
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3:45PM
Flight Leader Lt. Charles C. Taylor calls the flight tower, sounding confused and worried, reporting that they can't see land and seem to be off course. As would be expected, the controller asks what their position is, only to get a confused message from Taylor again. Can't see land. Cannot be sure where we are. Repeat: Cannot see land.
What is to follow is so strange as it isn't Taylor himself calling the tower some 10 minutes later but one of the crewmen.
Tower personnel send out two flying boats to the rescue. One of those will never be heard of again.
The Navy spent five days, covering 250,000 miles only to find nothing. Not even an oil slick. No traces whatsoever of what could have happened to those six aircrafts.
Fourteen men were lost from Flight 19 that day, right in the center of the Bermuda Triangle. Fourteen more lost, from the attempted rescue.
The Loss of Flight 19
1945. December 5th. 2:00PM.
Five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers leave from Florida on a training mission, conducting bombing runs on a set of islands. On the way there, no issues. Problems start on the way back, even though the weather is relatively calm with only a few scattered showers.
3:45PM
Flight Leader Lt. Charles C. Taylor calls the flight tower, sounding confused and worried, reporting that they can't see land and seem to be off course. As would be expected, the controller asks what their position is, only to get a confused message from Taylor again. Can't see land. Cannot be sure where we are. Repeat: Cannot see land.
What is to follow is so strange as it isn't Taylor himself calling the tower some 10 minutes later but one of the crewmen.
Quote:“We can't find west. Everything is wrong. We can't be sure of any direction. Everything looks strange, even the ocean,” the voice reported. There was another delay, and then tower personnel learned from intercepted transmissions that the flight leader had turned over his command to another pilot for unknown reasons.
After 20 minutes of radio silence, the new leader’s voice transmitted to the tower, but it was trembling, bordering on hysteria. “We can't tell where we are… everything is… can’t make out anything. We think we may be about 225 miles northeast of base…” For a few moments, the pilot rambled incoherently before uttering the last words ever heard from Flight 19. “It looks like we are entering white water… We’re completely lost.”
Tower personnel send out two flying boats to the rescue. One of those will never be heard of again.
The Navy spent five days, covering 250,000 miles only to find nothing. Not even an oil slick. No traces whatsoever of what could have happened to those six aircrafts.
Fourteen men were lost from Flight 19 that day, right in the center of the Bermuda Triangle. Fourteen more lost, from the attempted rescue.
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