Other aircraft that have disappeared in the area include a DC-3 carrying 27 passengers in 1948 and a C-124 Globemaster with 53 passengers in 1951. Wreckage from Flight 19 has never been recovered. The plane actually blew up 23 seconds after takeoff.

Radio recordings indicate that some of the crew believed they were heading out over the Atlantic Ocean, instead of the Gulf of Mexico as their leader reported.ДЄ search plane took off and was claimed to have disappeared into the Bermuda Triangle with Flight 19. Flight 19 was still in radio contact with the Fort Lauderdale air base, but after some mechanical difficulties they failed to switch to an emergency frequency.

Visibility became a problem because of a sudden storm, and the leader became disoriented. After his compass malfunctioned soon into the flight, the flight leader decided to navigate by land-marks below on the islands of the Florida Keys, with which he was familiar. All of the crewmen of Flight 19 were in training, for example, except for their patrol leader, who had tried to withdraw from his flight duty that day because he was feeling ill. Those two airplane disappearances were frequently cited as the Bermuda Triangle legend grew during the 1960s and 1970s.ДЇew of those stories included telling details. A seaplane sent in search of the squadron also vanished. The squadron left Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with 14 crewmen and disappeared after radioing in several distress messages. Navy torpedo bombers, became the most notorious of disappearances associated with the Bermuda Triangle. That ship may have been a casualty of war, but the December 1945 disappearance of Flight 19, a training squadron of five U.S. In March 1918, during World War I, the USS Cyclops vanished in the Bermuda Triangle. However, neither statistics nor documented evidence indicates that the number of accidents is unusually high or without explanation. That many of the accidents in the area are intriguing, and that the area does have some natural conditions that sailors and pilots need to be aware of, has not been challenged. Sands had noted in a report in Fate magazine that an unusually large number of strange accidents had occurred in the region associated with the Bermuda Triangle. Charles Berlitz's 1974 bestseller The Bermuda Triangle marked the height of the disaster area legend, but some of its sensationalized claims were quickly proved inaccurate.ДЄs early as 1952, George X. The triangle was featured in a cover story in Argosy in 1968, in a book called Limbo of the Lost (1969) by John Wallace Spencer, and in a documentary film, The Devil's Triangle, in 1971. Many newspapers carried a story in December of 1967 about strange incidents in the Bermuda Triangle after a National Geographic Society news release brought attention to Gaddis's book. The article was expanded and included in his book, Invisible Horizons: True Mysteries of the Sea (1965), where he described nine mysterious incidents and provided extensive detail.

Gaddis claimed that several ships and planes had disappeared without explanation in that area. The term 'Bermuda Triangle' was first used in an article written by Vincent H. In his log, Columbus noted that his compass readings were askew within the area now called the Bermuda Triangle, and he and his crew were confused by shallow areas of sea with no land nearby.

Unusual events in that area date back in recorded history to 1493 and the first voyage of Christopher Columbus (1451 вЂ“1506) to the New World. Additionally, readings on directional devices do not operate normally inside the triangle. Within that triangular area of the Atlantic Ocean have occurred a number of unexplained disappearances of boats and planes. The Bermuda Triangle, also called the Devil's Triangle, is an imaginary area that can be roughly outlined on a map by connecting Miami, Florida San Juan, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas, an island chain off the coast of the United States.

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