Flight 19: The Bermuda Triangle's Most Famous Mystery

Flight 19 is the most famous disappearance in Bermuda Triangle history. On December 5, 1945, five U.S. Navy TBM Avenger bombers took off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on a routine training flight. Hours later, their leader radioed that both his compasses had failed. Then the fourteen men of Flight 19 vanished over the Atlantic, and the rescue plane sent to find them, with thirteen more men aboard, disappeared too. In this episode we follow the flight minute by minute through the original radio transmissions, the largest search the Navy had ever seen, the Navy's controversial verdict, and how one magazine article turned a tragedy into the legend of the Bermuda Triangle. Chapters 00:00 The Last Transmission 01:12 Part One: A Routine Flight 03:18 Part Two: Lost 07:28 Part Three: The Second Disappearance 09:11 Part Four: The Search 09:55 Part Five: The Verdict 10:54 Part Six: The Birth of a Legend 12:27 Epilogue: What Probably Happened Sources Naval Air Advanced Training Command, Board of Investigation, NAS Jacksonville (1945) Naval History Magazine (U.S. Naval Institute), "The Mysterious Disappearance of Flight 19" (2021) History.com, "The Mysterious Disappearance of Flight 19" Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum, Flight 19 exhibit "Flight 19", Wikipedia (radio transcript excerpts) Images Historical photographs and maps: U.S. Navy and U.S. National Archives (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons. Radio operator photo (1945): CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. Paintings by Ivan Aivazovsky (public domain). Stock footage from Pexels. Music "Ossuary 6 - Air", "Long Note Four", "Lightless Dawn", "Night Vigil", "Echoes of Time v2", "Heartbreaking" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Radio transmissions are dramatized readings of the recorded messages. #history #bermudatriangle #flight19