robert arndt wrote:
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Where'd the planes come from that were shown at the beginning of the
movie? Where are they now?

And for a question not based on reality, why wasn't the desert
winds blowing them around? The aliens didn't leave them tied down
or chocked.

Those were Navy TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that were supposed to
represent the famous lost squadron of 5 TBMs that crashed in 1945 in
the supposed Bermuda Triangle. The popular misconception is that
the aircraft flew into some kind of "disturbance" and disappeared.
The reality is that the flight leader became lost and disoriented
and the aircraft ran out of gas at night in a storm.


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.

Right, because its hard to find a bunch of relatively small aircraft in a
large area of ocean after the fact.

But usually something like wreckage, debris, or floating bodies are
found then or later. They NEVER found ANYTHING.

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.

It was a training flight. Only the flight leader had any real
navigation experience, and the other pilots relied on his direction. If
he screwed up they were screwed.

Not so as the leader was advised that turning west would be best. From
his correct position in the north (he believed he was heading south)
turning west would have taken the flight back over land. But the
conditions stated below caused him to think otherwise so he declined
and either headed straight north into the Atlantic or south into the
Gulf of Mexico.

The sky was reported as distorted, not making sense
as well as time being lost.

No, books written 3 decades later made that claim.

Because those remarks were omitted from the "official" report. The
flight leader could not determine position because they sky suddenly
appeared to be blended and there was (at least in the mind of the
flight leader) a loss of time.

I don't in any way suggest alien abduction, nor necessarily the
oft-claimed effects of the Triangle. But I do believe something other
than "he simply got lost" is to blame. You can't use the big ocean
excuse for not finding the planes. Deep See found a bunch of TBMs that
they thought were Flight 19- turns out they weren't. If they sunk,
they eventually will be found. If they disappeared, that's another
story. And what about the other missing search plane too? Just
coincidence?

The History Channel ran one of their "History's Mysteries" specials on
Flight 19 a few years ago. Their guy had the theory that they may have
been blown farther north than they knew, and ended up coming down in the
Okefenokee Swamp. Once there, they'd have sunk into the bog and never
been seen again. Eventually, the acidic water would have eaten the
planes and the pilots' bodies away. (Either that or one of the
semi-frequent forest fires would have burned the wreckage away. Hey, I'm
not making this up...)

Of course, there's no way to really test this theory unless someone
should happen to survey the Okefenokee with ground-penetrating radar.

-Marc

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