"robert arndt" wrote in message
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(JDupre5762) wrote in message
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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.

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.

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

No, books written 3 decades later made that claim.

tim gueguen 101867