On December 5, 1945, Flight 19, a group of five avenger jets took off from Ft. Lauderdale for a routine training mission. The flight was to drop dummy bombs near Bimini, just 56 miles from base, then proceed east for 67 miles following a heading of 91 degrees, then turn north-northwest 346 degrees for 73 miles, and then southwest back to the base to finish the triangle. (This is how the Bermuda Triangle found its name as well!) (Quasar, 2005)Tragically, the fourteen members of flight 19 never made it home. Though some blame this tragedy on the paranormal phenomena that surrounds the legend of the Bermuda Triangle, there is a purely scientific account for all that went wrong. The flight began normal enough, with Charles Taylor heading up as the flight leader. Each craft carried one pilot, two crew, one gunner, and a radio man (one plane was short a radio man). Each of the men were seasoned servicemen and all had at least 350 hours of flight under their belt The planes were topped......

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Title: The Fate Of Flight 19
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