Loss of Flight 19 off Florida
- When
- Where
- Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Sources
- 1 public source
Five Navy TBM Avengers with 14 men vanished on a training flight from NAS Fort Lauderdale after the leader reported being lost; a PBM Mariner sent to search was also lost with 13 aboard. The planes likely ran out of fuel at sea. The case later fed Bermuda Triangle and UFO lore.
Sources
How the story came out
Happened 5 Dec 1945. First made public 29 years later (1975).
- 5 Dec 1945It happened (this event)
- 1975Larry Kusche publishes 'The Bermuda Triangle Mystery--Solved' - first made public