The Loss of Flight 19". history.navy.mil. Archived from the original on 2009-04-13 . Retrieved 2006-09-20. The Bermuda Triangle has fascinated many who lean toward believing imaginative stories and bizarre explanations, but skeptics take a whole other view of the area. Find out whether you’ve got the facts straight. Compass problems are one of the cited phrases in many Triangle incidents. While some have theorized that unusual local magnetic anomalies may exist in the area, [29] such anomalies have not been found. Compasses have natural magnetic variations in relation to the magnetic poles, a fact which navigators have known for centuries. Magnetic (compass) north and geographic (true) north are exactly the same only for a small number of places – for example, as of 2000 [update], in the United States, only those places on a line running from Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico. [30] But the public may not be as informed, and think there is something mysterious about a compass "changing" across an area as large as the Triangle, which it naturally will. [1] False-color image of the Gulf Stream flowing north through the western Atlantic Ocean (NASA) Gulf Stream

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The Gaddis Argosy article delineated the boundaries of the triangle, [9] giving its vertices as Miami; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Bermuda. Subsequent writers did not necessarily follow this definition. [16] Some writers gave different boundaries and vertices to the triangle, with the total area varying from 1,300,000 to 3,900,000km 2 (500,000 to 1,510,000sqmi). [16] "Indeed, some writers [ who?] even stretch it as far as the Irish coast." [2] Consequently, the determination of which accidents occurred inside the triangle depends on which writer reported them. [16] Criticism of the concept Larry Kusche Mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle". Decoding the Past. Season 1. Episode 16. 2005. History Channel. TBM-3 Avenger ( BuNo: 53118) – Mystery Solved!", AeroQuest, April 18, 2014, archived from the original on March 23, 2018 , retrieved March 22, 2018 The region is highly traveled and has been a busy crossroads since the early days of European exploration," said John Reilly, a historian with the U.S. Naval Historical Foundation. "To say quite a few ships and airplanes have gone down there is like saying there are an awful lot of car accidents on the New Jersey Turnpike—surprise, surprise." Most of the pilots involved in the incident were trainees. This means they weren’t properly taught how to use all the aircraft instruments when flying at night, or in bad weather.

Navigation training flight [ edit ] Lieutenant Charles Carroll Taylor, USNR, flight leader of Flight 19 Flight 19 Memorial". Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum. Archived from the original on July 14, 2011 . Retrieved December 13, 2010. A sad but equally historic note is the fact that 95 young Americans lost their lives at the NAS Fort Lauderdale base during 1942–1945 – the three most intensive training years of the war. Another theory posits that the Bermuda Triangle might be home to a large-scale magnetic anomaly, a region where the Earth’s magnetic field lines are warped and twisted. This, too, could cause navigational mistakes. But, as others have noted, there’s no evidence the Bermuda Triangle contains any unusual magnetic disturbances, something that’s clear when looking at a magnetic map of the region . One of the most cited explanations in official inquiries as to the loss of any aircraft or vessel is human error. [34] Human stubbornness may have caused businessman Harvey Conover to lose his sailing yacht, Revonoc, as he sailed into the teeth of a storm south of Florida on January 1, 1958. [35] Violent weather Debris Sighted In Plane Search For Tanker Missing Off Florida", The New York Times, February 11, 1963.The legend of the Bermuda Triangle is a manufactured mystery, perpetuated by writers who either purposely or unknowingly made use of misconceptions, faulty reasoning, and sensationalism. [1]