It was1945 65438+February 5th. At the Naval Air Base in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, five Avengers took off from the runway on 14 and flew into the blue sky for routine patrol. Their flight route is eastbound 108km, then northbound 120km, and then turn southwest to return to the base. They are familiar with this route.
The unit has 14 crew members, and the commander of the 19 squadron is an experienced and senior pilot, Captain Charles Taylor. The pilots on the other four planes are also excellent pilots who have undergone rigorous training and mastered various flying techniques.
Wan Li was cloudless when the plane took off, which was very good flight weather. After the plane flew to the predetermined altitude, Captain Taylor's clear voice came from the radio wave: "Everything is normal, the engine sound is good, and the wind speed is not high."
After taking off for more than an hour, the base headquarters received a report from Captain Taylor, saying that "something unusual happened and we somehow deviated from the correct route."
The ground control tower ordered, "Report your current position."
Taylor replied, "I don't know where it is."
The ground control tower ordered Taylor to turn the plane west. But the answer is: "the azimuth meter is broken, the pointer doesn't move, I can't tell the direction, I only see the sea."
At this point, the base headquarters has not realized the seriousness of the problem. They think there is enough oil on the plane to fly for another four hours, and the pilot's skills are completely reassuring. Therefore, the headquarters ordered another plane whose azimuth meter was still working normally to take the place of Taylor as the formation commander, and ordered five planes to aim due west, that is, to aim at a 270-degree course and return to the base.
10 minutes later, the base headquarters received the air radio communication and said, "I am the squadron leader ... Be alert! Now we have lost our way, we can't see the land, we can't see the land anywhere ... I don't know which is the west, everything is in a mess, and even the sea seems different from usual. "
At this time, Taylor also reported: "We seem to be over the Gulf of Mexico now. We aim at a 30-degree course and turn to true north after 45 minutes ... "
Base headquarters began to feel puzzled. How can five planes leave hundreds of kilometers of routes and run over the Gulf of Mexico? What caused the plane to be completely out of control? The commanders became nervous.
By 6 pm, the plane was out of sight. According to various factors, the base headquarters calculated that the plane flew 32 kilometers northeast of the base and 92 kilometers away from the nearest coast.
Near dusk, five planes flew like headless flies to the west and northwest, and the radio communication situation deteriorated gradually. These five planes didn't receive any instructions from the ground. However, the headquarters of the base can still hear the dialogue between the five planes. At this time, all the operators' voices were panicked. From their conversation, we know that all the navigation instruments are not working and the readings are different. I don't know why pilots can't see the sun. If he can see the sun, he can also determine the position according to the sun. After a while, the last faint sound of the plane came from the ground base, and the operator shouted in surprise: "It began to sink into the water, ... we are finished." By 7: 04 pm, there was no sound in the air.
The base immediately dispatched a large airship "Martin Mariner" to rescue, with a crew of *** 13, and a full set of rescue equipment on board. The airship searched along the sea area where the five missing planes last flew. Who knows, the "Martin Mariner" airship lost contact with the ground after taking off for more than ten minutes, and the airship and 13 people on board also disappeared inexplicably.
In this way, in just a few hours, Taylor's squadron's five attack planes, 1 large rescue airship and nine crew members seemed to be swallowed up by the sky.
The American authorities attach great importance to this major flight accident with unknown truth. The US Navy has taken many measures and conducted the largest search and rescue activity in history. In this rescue activity, 2 1 ship, including aircraft carrier, hundreds of speedboats, motorboats and more than 30 planes, was dispatched, and all the sea areas where the plane might crash were carefully searched, and almost every meter of sea surface from Bermuda to the Gulf of Mexico was searched. As a result, no signs of being killed were found. Finally, the report of the official Committee said: "We can't even roughly guess what happened."
Since five attack planes of the US Naval Air Base crashed over the Bermuda Triangle, accidents have occurred here one after another. 194812/2710: 30, a DC-3 civil aviation flight took off from San Francisco airport and passed through Bermuda triangle. On the way, the ground control tower heard the captain's voice and said, "... what's going on?" They are all singing Christmas songs! " At 4: 30 am on the 28th, the plane also sent a telegram saying, "We are approaching the airport, the lights are visible, and we are ready to land." The airport is also ready to accept the plane landing, but it won't be long. The plane never landed at the airport, but mysteriously disappeared before landing, leaving no passengers alive.
The continuous disappearance of planes over the Bermuda Triangle has added to the horror and strangeness of this sea area. Some planes that crashed here kept normal contact with the airport until the last few minutes and disappeared almost instantly. Some planes send out strange reports before they crash, such as sudden failure of instruments; The sky is yellow; Sunny and foggy; The sea water became abnormal and so on, but it disappeared before anyone could provide more detailed information.
According to statistics, from 1840 to now, there have been more than a thousand accidents involving planes and ships in the Bermuda Triangle. In recent years, more than 100 ships registered in the United States have mysteriously disappeared in this sea area, including two nuclear submarines. According to the statistics of the waters within 25 miles of Florida coast, more than 1200 people are killed every year, and even the bodies are not found.