Divers Found 5 Planes at the Bottom of the Bermuda Triangle — But It Wasn't Flight 19

On December 5, 1945, five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo bombers took off from Fort Lauderdale on a training flight — and vanished. A rescue plane sent after them disappeared too. 27 men, gone in one night. Flight 19 became the heart of the Bermuda Triangle legend. In 1991, divers found five Avengers on the sea floor off Florida — but they weren't Flight 19. In 2022, a team searching for the lost rescue plane found a piece of the Space Shuttle Challenger instead. Here's what really happened, and why they've never been found. CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 01:38 Navigation Problem Number One 03:40 Both My Compasses Are Out 05:29 Lost 06:41 The Rescue Plane 07:50 The Search 08:41 Who Was to Blame? 09:45 The Birth of a Legend 11:42 Five Planes on the Bottom 13:06 The Shuttle in the Sand 14:29 Still Missing