The lost squadron was "Flight 19" and the circumstances surrounding
their disappearance has never been explained despite the above "simple
explanation". None of the aircraft nor any sign of survival gear have
ever been found. The flight leader didn't just get lost, the entire
flight lost all bearing on where they were and could not establish a
way back to base. The sky was reported as distorted, not making sense
as well as time being lost.
The above posts claims they crashed in the Triangle but they have
never been found. Some excitement was caused years back when other TBM
aircraft were discovered in the area but they were NOT Flight 19.
For more information read the book "The Disappearance of Flight 19"
(1980) by Larry Kusche (ISBN: 0060124776).
Best place to get it from: www.bookfinder.com

Rob

From: (robert arndt)

It has been satisfactorily explained several times beginning with the Navy
Court of Inquiry in 1945. Several years ago a pilot who was also in the air at
the same time and tried to communicate with Flight 19 mentioned in an interview
that at the time there was no real mystery as to what happened. Everyone
involved realized that the Flight Leader was disoriented including other
members of the flight who tried to point out that they were headed in the wrong
direction. These were Navy pilots trained to follow the orders of the flight
leader. As for no wreckage being found it is a big ocean and even 5 TBMs are
pretty small. By the time they crashed it was dark and there was a storm
raging. Prospects of surviving that ditching are pretty small. Prospects of
any wreckage being scattered to hell and gone are pretty great. Whole ships
have been lost with no more wreckage left than would fill a suitcase. The
aircraft will eventually be found where the half dozen radio fixes placed them
about 100 miles northeast of the northern corner of Florida.

The best book ever written on the subject of the Triangle is The Bermuda
Triangle Mystery: Solved; it absolutely demolishes all the cockamamie theories
with actual research with sources like the New York Times and Lloyds Shipping
Register and records of Courts of Inquiry.

John Dupre'