Flight 19 Found: Bermuda’s 1945 Mystery Unraveled
Perhaps the most notorious disappearance in the Triangle, the fate of Flight 19 and the PBM Mariner has left even the brightest minds searching for answers. When Flight 19, a group of five Avenger torpedo bombers, took off from Fort Lauderdale on December 5, 1945, they expected their three-hour bombing trip to be as uneventful as the flights they had made countless times before. Shortly after dropping their load of replica bombs, the patrol began having problems. Lieutenant Charles C. Taylor, an experienced pilot, believed that his compass had begun to malfunction and that Flight 19 had been flying in…
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