What Was Never Explained

The disappearance of Flight 19


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On December 5, 1945, five United States Navy torpedo bombers departed Florida on a routine training mission. Hours later, confused radio transmissions suggested that the flight had become lost over the Atlantic. None of the fourteen men returned.

The disappearance later became one of the foundations of the Bermuda Triangle legend. Yet the surviving evidence points toward navigation problems, deteriorating weather, fuel exhaustion, and a rescue aircraft that may have suffered an unrelated accident.

Flight 19 probably did not disappear into anything supernatural. But without confirmed wreckage, the exact final moments of the five aircraft remain unknown.
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