Bermuda Triangle
... a routine practice mission with commander, Lt.Charles Taylor. Their mission was to practice bombing runs. On their way back they got lost in the Bermuda triangle. Taylor for some reason became confused during the flight. He was experienced as a pilot, but did not fly east towards the Bahamas very much which was his destination on that day. Taylor thought he was headed in the wrong direction and decided to head south toward the keys instead of east which ended with deadly results through out the rest of the flight. The more Taylor flew his flight north to try to get out of the Keys, the further out to sea the Avengers actually traveled. Back at the base the marines could hear on their transmissions that the students were trying to tell Taylor to change course. The students said to Taylor Quote “If we would just fly west,” one student told another, “We would get home.” He was right. As time went on it was 4:45 everyone else on ground new he was hopelessly lost. He was told to give control of the plane over to one of the students but he apparently didn’t. It was getting dark and communications were deteriorating the only words that went through was Taylor still flying north and east, the wrong directions. At 5:50 the COM Gulf Sea Frontier Evaluation center managed to get a fix on Flight 19’s weakening signals they were located near New Smyrna Beach, Florida. They were so far away that this information could not be passed to the lost planes. At 6:20 a Dumbo Flying Boat was sent out to find Flight 19 to guide them back to safety. Within an hour two more planes, Martin Mariners, joined the search. By then hope was rapidly fading for flight 19. The weather was getting dangerous and the Avengers were very low on fuel. The two Martin Mariners were supposed to meet each other at the search zone. The second one, training 49 never showed up. The last communication that was heard from the Avengers was at 7:04 pm. The search team searched through out the night and the next day. There were no sign of the Avengers. The authorities didn’t expect to find much. The Avengers would have crashed eventually because their fuel would have been exhausted and would be sent to the bottom of the ocean in seconds by the 50 foot waves of the storm. “They didn’t call those planes ‘Iron Birds’ for nothing Taylor’s colleagues noted, they weighed 14,000 pounds empty. So when they ditched they went down pretty fast. What happened to the missing Marti...