Bermuda Triangle Revisited

Falcon5768 · April 25, 2001, 4:50am

A while back I heard they found those planes that got lost, and that they where WAY!!! off course of where everyone said they where. This show that the Triangle is fake?

Arnold_Winkelried · April 25, 2001, 10:13am

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Cecil’s column can be found on-line at this link:
Has anyone vanished in the Bermuda Triangle lately?

The column (including Slug Signorino’s illustration) can also be found on pages 67-69 of Cecil Adams? book «Return of the Straight Dope».

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Arnold_Winkelried · April 25, 2001, 10:17am

Who’s they? Which planes did they find? The five Navy planes lost in 1945? The DC-3 carrying 36 persons in 1948? Others?

Arnold_Winkelried · April 25, 2001, 10:42am

By the way, if you’re thinking of the Navy planes lost in 1945, perhaps you are recalling this news.
From Bermuda Triangle: FAQs and Facts
(about two thirds down the page)

FAQ
About the Bermuda Triangle… My brother Joshua told me he saw photo graph of the very bottom of the Bermuda Triangle and he said those five planes that disappeared in the 1940’s were at the bottom in a circle and the only thing that was gone were the bodies. …
FACTS
If it is the photo I’m thinking about, it was five navy avengers that were scrapped after WWII and were recovered in the late 1980s early 1990s. Numerous news magazines speculated that it may have been flight 19, however it was quickly learned from the serial numbers, that they were not. Also the planes were roughly dumped in a circle, as in the pattern they had been dumped overboard but not in an actual circle drawn on the ocean floor. By the time the news media had arrived, divers had marked off the area making it appear that the planes had landed in a circle. Several magazines ran with the speculation that it may have been Flight 19 but only Time magazine was nice enough to do a small follow up two weeks later that retracted the initial speculation.