Ep 67: Flight 19 Part 3

 

Approximate radio triangulation of Flight 19's last known position based on their course of 270º 

Background

The timeline of events leading up to the disappearance of Flight 19 suggest, as with so many tragedies, that it was not just one mistake responsible for the ultimate loss of 27 airmen, but a series of minor miscommunications and faltering.  This is perhaps due to the ordinary and routine nature of the training mission, one that was not far from home base and one that wasn't supposed to go so wrong.  But how could a seasoned flight instructor with combat experience and around 2500 hours of flying time to his credit become so disoriented, especially one who was familiar with the region?  Why couldn't a simple navigational error be corrected amongst the 5 pilots and crewmen?  Was there a general feeling of overconfidence in eventually correcting their course, or was there some unknown environmental force acting upon them, one that is suspected of the area?  We'll never know the answers to these questions, but what seems to be their most likely fate is that they finally ran out of fuel and ditched into the ocean. However, we've discovered that the results of an imaging technique may provide a clue that this flight has a much more mysterious resting place than we can understand.

Reference Links

• 2017-04-11: Patrick AFB dedicates memorial to PBM-5 Mariner Training 49 http://on.flatoday.com/2nFrYpk

• Other mysteries in the Bermuda Triangle http://bit.ly/2oZsSgx

• Flight 19: "Lost Patrol" By Michael McDonell, Naval Aviation News June 1973, 8-16 http://bit.ly/2nBzzBZ

• Were two dead pilots part of Lost Patrol? http://bit.ly/2ol4oLO

• Seekers Won`t Give Up Flight 19 Proof In Sea Or Swamp http://bit.ly/2oSEG4p

• Theory: Plane Found in Everglades is from Flight 19 http://bit.ly/2olpewg

• Ghost Bomber: The Mystery of the Missing B-25 http://bit.ly/2nWIEEd

• A "Glitch in the Matrix?" http://bit.ly/2ol5MOA

• A gathering of TBM Avengers in Peru, Illinois, 16 April 2016 http://bit.ly/2nWW6rF

• Occam's Razor http://bit.ly/RoQtCe

• The Disappearance of Flight 19 by Lawrence David Kusche http://a.co/8cNw4KG

• Radar Bulletin 8-A: Homing procedure for lost planes http://bit.ly/2mFt7Je

• Loss of Flight 19 Official US Naval Accident Reports http://bit.ly/2nj6de5

• Flight 19 http://bit.ly/2mBlZkq

• 1950s era flight planning chart http://bit.ly/2oSN6Zx

• NAS Jacksonville Board of Investigation "Finding of Facts" http://bit.ly/2mFvj36

• Sea Frontier http://bit.ly/2nO9ylR

• Non-directional Beacon http://bit.ly/2mAwogN

• Automatic Direction Finder (ADF) http://bit.ly/2nxiyez

• High-frequency Direction Finding, or HF/DF http://bit.ly/2nReZRj

• World War II Navy Carrier airplane antennas http://bit.ly/2nxn5gL

• Distance to the Horizon calculator http://bit.ly/2mSQL5E

• WWII Training Film - preflight radio inspection for fighter aircraft http://bit.ly/2mFbYiM

• Martin PBM Mariner flying boat http://bit.ly/2n7WPJS

• Grumman TBF Avenger Torpedo Bomber http://bit.ly/2nBnlcx

• TBM Avenger at the National Naval Aviation Museum http://bit.ly/2mFbxF4

• Patrick US Air Force Base, formerly US NAS Banana River http://bit.ly/2nlL3vc

• US Coast Guard Air Station Dinner Key Florida http://bit.ly/2nOeTJH

• Consolidated PBY Catalina patrol bomber and rescue aircraft http://bit.ly/1qXSLKQ

• "Dumbo" air-sea rescue http://bit.ly/2nBoq3J

• Against the Sun opening scene of a torpedo bomber water ditch http://bit.ly/2n7LpFQ

• The true story that inspired the film Against The Sun http://bit.ly/2n0JaAB

• Fresh Search for Lost Patrol by Jim Moore 4-24-2015 http://bit.ly/2mSNwLw

• Recognition of the 60th Anniversary of Flight 19 by the US House of Representatives Congressional Record http://bit.ly/2nOlLDp

• Watch Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden pilot "Ed Force One" http://bit.ly/2mAAyFG

• John Travolta's 707 Jumbo Jet http://bit.ly/2mAteJP

• The Fog: A Never Before Published Theory of the Bermuda Triangle Phenomenon, by Rob MacGregor and Bruce Gernon http://a.co/5AZONep

• Beyond the Bermuda Triangle: True Encounters with Electronic Fog, Missing Aircraft, and Time Warps by Bruce Gernon and Rob MacGregor, coming out 7/24/2017 http://a.co/hEOgpH9

• The Bermuda Triangle http://bit.ly/1LtPMAo

• "Bat Boy!" from the Weekly World News http://bit.ly/1bshzSC

• How the National Enquirer broke the John Edwards story http://bit.ly/2jcNleP

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Credits:

Episode 67 - Flight 19 (Part 3) Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess; Audio Editing by Sarah Vorhees; Ryan McCullough Sound Design; Research Assistance by Tess Pfeifle and the astonishing League of Astonishing Researchers, a.k.a. The Astonishing Research Corps, or "A.R.C." for short. Copyright 2017 Astonishing Legends Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.