Flight 19

The crew of the Lost Patrol, in front of plane FT-28 piloted by commander Lt. Charles Taylor. Flight 19 was the designation of 5 TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared on Dec. 5, 1945 during a U.S. Navy overwater navigation training flight from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida. All 14 airmen on the flight were lost. One plane was one member short. Marine Cpl. Allan Kosnar, had been given special permission not to fly that day because he had had a strong premonition of…

One of the strangest enigmas in history happened on December 5, 1945. Five Avenger torpedo bombers, called “Flight… The post Flight 19: The Disappearance Of 5 Bombers Over Bermuda Triangle appeared first on Infinity Explorers.

Bomber 31

Welcome to the Bermuda Triangle, where everything from cargo ships to airplanes has mysteriously disappeared. The mysterious body of water is clouded with rumors of suspicions — if not supernatural — activity. Here, we recap its strangest disappearances.

At 2:10 p.m. on December 5, 1945, five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers comprising Flight 19 take off from the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida on a routine three-hour training mission.…

The Discovery of Flight 19 by a fomer US Army pilot who surveyed the records and charts to locate the five TBM Avengers that disappeared over 60 years ago.

Pearl Harbor / Hawaï

CORAL SEA (July 19, 2013) Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 5 drop from an MH-60S Seahawk from the "Golden Falcons" of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 12 onto the flight deck of the U.S. Navy's forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) during a fast rope exercise in support of Talisman Saber (TS) 2013. The TS exercise is a biennial training event aimed at improving Australian Defense Force (ADF) and U.S. combat readiness and…