Flight 19

The crew of the Lost Patrol, in front of plane FT-28 piloted by commander Lt. Charles Taylor. Flight 19 was the designation of 5 TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared on Dec. 5, 1945 during a U.S. Navy overwater navigation training flight from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida. All 14 airmen on the flight were lost. One plane was one member short. Marine Cpl. Allan Kosnar, had been given special permission not to fly that day because he had had a strong premonition of…

Welcome to the Bermuda Triangle, where everything from cargo ships to airplanes has mysteriously disappeared. The mysterious body of water is clouded with rumors of suspicions — if not supernatural — activity. Here, we recap its strangest disappearances.

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One of the strangest enigmas in history happened on December 5, 1945. Five Avenger torpedo bombers, called “Flight… The post Flight 19: The Disappearance Of 5 Bombers Over Bermuda Triangle appeared first on Infinity Explorers.

A B-17 Flying Fortress (DF-N, s/n 43-37993), nicknamed 'Mah Ideel' of the 91st Bomb Group in flight during a mission, 19 February 1945

At 2:10 p.m. on December 5, 1945, five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers comprising Flight 19 take off from the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida on a routine three-hour training mission.…

The Discovery of Flight 19 by a fomer US Army pilot who surveyed the records and charts to locate the five TBM Avengers that disappeared over 60 years ago.

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XS507 "Buzby II" operating from RFA Olna, about to do the first deck landing on the SS Uganda after she sailed from Gibraltar on the way to the Falklands having been converted to a hospital ship