It’s no secret that the infamous Bermuda Triangle is one of the world’s greatest
mysteries.
For those of you who want to avoid the triangle at all costs, it’s located in the Atlantic
Ocean between Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Florida.
More ships and planes have disappeared here than anywhere else in the world and that’s
why the Bermuda Triangle is also known as the Devil’s Triangle.
Because of these strange disappearances, people have linked the Bermuda Triangle to paranormal
activity or aliens but most investigators blame all of the disappearances on bad weather
and human error.
So which one is truly at fault?
Well let’s explore some of the most notable disappearances.
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This is the top 10 Scary Times Airplanes went missing in the bermuda triangle.
Douglas DC-3 scary disappearance brings us to number 10.
It is said that the DC-3 is one of the most reliable aircrafts to have ever been designed
and built.
You will see a lot of these airplanes flying in Florida, The Carribean and Bahamas because
its main job is for island hopping.
But on December 28, 1948, a DC-3 aircraft took off from San Juan airport and was headed
to Miami.
It was only 50 miles from the south of Florida but the plane was never seen or heard from
again.
It disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle with 28 passengers and 3 crew members on board.
This was the first time that a DC-3 aircraft disappeared but many others have disappeared
since and they all went missing just 50 miles from the Florida Keys.
I wouldn’t call that a coincidence.
I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t think I’ll be booking a flight that even
has the smallest chance of flying over the Bermuda Triangle.
I mean it's 2019 people, can’t we come up with an alternate flight path?
Obviously the Bermuda Triangle is one of life’s greatest mysteries and I don’t think we
should be going anywhere near it.
Unless your life goal is to disappear without a trace then go for it.
Flight 441 comes flying onto this list in at number 9.
This aircraft took off with 42 passengers on board as they made their way from the NAS
Pax River Naval Station to Lajes (LAY JES) in the Azores Islands.
All contact with the plane was lost when they were about 400 miles from the coast.
Flight 441 never arrived at its destination and it disappeared without a trace.
Because of this, the disappearance of Flight 441 was one of the most investigated instances
of all time.
They looked into the weather conditions that day and the pilot’s abilities.
The weather was pretty typical that day.
There wasn’t any icing but there were scattered thunderstorms and minor turbulence.
The plane was equipped with more than enough flotation devices that should have survived
but again, nothing was ever found.
Up next in at number 8 we have a very unusual disappearance.
Lets travel back to November 3, 1978 when a pilot left St.Croix and was headed towards
St.Thomas to pick up passengers.
This experienced pilot went on this fight by himself and he has done it a bunch of times.
Apparently the visibility was good and temperatures were nice and warm.
Some would say that he had the perfect flying conditions.
But during the flight, the control tower advised him that he was headed for a small shower
so he should alter his route a bit.
He made the adjustments and as he was getting close to the St.Thomas airport, the plane
was cleared for landing and the control tower saw the red and green lights blinking from
the plane.
But soon after, another plane took off and the controller couldn’t see the lights from
the original plane.
It had disappeared from the radar and an emergency search effort was put into place but nothing
was ever found.
Keep in mind that this plane was literally only one mile from landing.
That is absolutely horrifying.
The disappearance of a small plane takes us
to number 7.
This is probably one of the most recent cases of a plane disappearing from the Bermuda Triangle.
In May 2017, this flight was carrying two adults and two children and it was scheduled
to fly from Puerto Rico to central Florida but it never arrived.
Miami Air Traffic Control lost radar and radio contact with the airplane just three hours
into the flight.
Rescue crews searched more than 8,200 square miles in over 30 hours but the plane just
seemed to vanish out of thin air.
All four of them most likely lost their lives but because of this mysterious disappearance,
so many people are coming up with their own theories about what really happened.
Some say that aliens are controlling the Bermuda Triangle
and they can cause ships and planes to crash.
And others believe that there is a utopian society located in the Bermuda Triangle and
people who find it, never want to leave.
Star Tiger comes flying onto this list in at number 6.
Back on January 30, 1948, a plane was scheduled to fly from England to Bermuda but it suddenly
vanished without a trace.
They were supposed to arrive by 5:00am the following day but the pilot and 31 other people
on the plane were never heard from again.
In the official report, investigators claim that the heater on the plane was unreliable
and it might have failed en route.
So in order to keep the temperature inside of the cabin warm, the pilot might’ve chosen
to fly at a lower altitude which would’ve burned his fuel a lot faster.
And if he was flying low, that wouldn’t give him a lot of time to react if he ran
into some trouble.
It’s been 71 years since this plane disappeared and it still remains a mystery.
Star Ariel comes onto our list in at number 5.
This aircraft is very similar to the Star Tiger.
It left from Bermuda on January 17, 1949 with seven crew members and 13 passengers.
It was en route to Jamaica but no one ever predicted that they would become another casualty
of the Bermuda Triangle.
Apparently the pilot reported that they flight was going smoothly but shortly afterwards,
the captain said that he was changing his frequency and he was never heard from again.
A search and rescue team was sent out to look for them but nothing was ever found.
After this aircraft disappeared, British South American Airways stopped the production on
the Tudor IV planes because they clearly have a bad track record of mysteriously disappearing
over the Bermuda Triangle.
Here’s a crazy idea, instead of stopping the manufacturing of these planes, how about
you don’t fly into a place that eats planes whole?
I think that would be a safer bet.
Number 4, we have the mysterious disappearance of a Trislander.
A small 3-engine aircraft was set to depart from Santiago to New York On December 15,
2008 and it was carrying 12 passengers on board.
But the unthinkable happened just 35 minutes after the plane took off.
It disappeared from all radars and no one was able to track down its location.
The US Coast Guard initiated a massive search and rescue mission but the plane was never
found.
There wasn’t even a trace of the plane or even a small piece of wreckage.
It’s last known location was 4 miles west of West Caicos (KAY COS) Island.
But sadly, we will probably never know what happened to those 12 people on board and their
disappearance will remain a mystery forever.
Maybe aliens had something to do with it…
Moving on to number 3 C-54 Skymaster.
The C54 took off from Bermuda on July 3, 1947 and it was intercepted by a massive thunderstorm.
A lot of investigators and researchers blame the storm for the planes disappearance, but
there is a lot more to the story.
The real question is, why did this plane head straight for the eye of the storm, when it
could have easily avoided it?
The C54 was a military aircraft that was capable of carrying 85 passengers.
On the day of the flight, there were 5 crew members and a very skilled pilot.
Soon after it took off from Bermuda, the plane started to go off course but the pilot and
the navigator on board weren’t aware of this.
As a result, it was headed straight for the storm.
It headed in this direction for a long time until the ground radio operator heard a chilling
SOS distress call but ignored it.
Some debris was found but they quickly blamed the storm for crashing the plane.
I don’t know, it sounds like something fishy was going on here...but I guess we will never
know what truly went down that day.
Flight 201 makes an appearance on this list in at number 2.
The aircraft left Fort Lauderdale on March 31, 1984 and it was supposed to land on Bimini
Island in the Bahamas but it never made it.
Despite the heavily experienced crew and pilot, something terrible went wrong.
Half way into the flight, the plane slowed down significantly but no radio signals were
sent and no distress calls were made.
Suddenly, the plane crashed into the water and it completely vanished from the radar.
But interestingly enough, a woman on Bimini island reported seeing a plane crash into
the water about a mile from the shore but no wreckage was ever found.
How is this even possible?
There wasn’t even the smallest trace of the plane left behind.
That just gives me the chills.
And finally, topping our list at number 1, we have the disappearance of Flight 19.
On December 5,1945, five US Navy Bombers took off from Fort Lauderdale for a routine training
exercise but they had no idea that they wouldn’t make it back alive.
The first leg of the exercise went according to plan but shortly afterwards, something
strange started to happen.
The only experienced pilot on the plane radioed to the base saying that both of his compasses
are out and he’s trying to find Fort Lauderdale.
He was sure that he was in the Florida keys but he didn’t know how far down he was.
Take a look at this picture.
The yellow part is the flight path that they should’ve taken, the purple path is where
the pilot thought he was and the red shows you where they actually flew.
They are nowhere near each other.
They believe that the pilot became extremely disoriented and one of the trainees said that
if we would just fly west, we would get home.
As it turns out, he was right but because the experienced pilot was stubborn, they became
another victim of the infamous Bermuda Triangle.
Oh and the rescue plane that went to go find them also disappeared just 20 minutes after
take off.
Well there you guys have it…