The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraf tand surface vessels are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances.Popular culture has attributed these disappearances to the paranormal or activity by extraterrestrial beings.Documented evidence indicates that a significant percentage of the incidents were spurious, inaccurately reported or embellished by later authors, and numerous official agencies have stated that the number and nature of disappearances in the region is similar to that in any other area of ocean.

Origins:

The earliest allegation of unusual disappearances in the Bermuda area appeared in a September 16, 1950 Associated Press article by Edward Van Winkle Jones. Two years later, Fate magazine published "Sea Mystery at Our Back Door", a short article by George X. Sand covering the loss of several planes and ships, including the loss of Flight 19, a group of five U.S. Navy TBM Avenger bombers on a training mission. Sand's article was the first to lay out the now-familiar triangular area where the losses took place. Flight 19 alone would be covered in the April 1962 issue of American Legion Magazine. It was claimed that the flight leader had been heard saying "We are entering white water, nothing seems right. We don't know where we are, the water is green, no white." It was also claimed that officials at the Navy board of inquiry stated that the planes "flew off to Mars." Sand's article was the first to suggest a supernatural element to the Flight 19 incident. In the February 1964 issue of Argosy, Vincent Gaddis's article "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle" argued that Flight 19 and other disappearances were part of a pattern of strange events in the region. The next year, Gaddis expanded this article into a book, Invisible Horizons.Others would follow with their own works, elaborating on Gaddis's ideas: John Wallace Spencer (Limbo of the Lost, 1969, repr. 1973); Charles Berlitz (The Bermuda Triangle, 1974);Richard Winer (The Devil's Triangle, 1974), and many others, all keeping to some of the same supernatural elements outlined by Eckert.

Flight 19

one of the most well known incidents and probably the most famous on the Bermuda triangle is about the loss of a squadron of bombers to five TBM Avenger in the United States Navy. UU. during a training flight that left Fort Lauderdale (Florida) on December 5, 1945. According to the fantasy writer Charles Berlitz (1914-2003), the case was that several Naval Aviators simply disappeared after that to report strange Visual effects, a claim that is not completely accurate. In addition, Berlitz said that because the remains of the TBM Avenger flotarían for long periods of time, these should be found the next day considering that those days were quiet tide with clear sky. However, not only not could be found, but a plane in search and rescue of the Navy also sent was lost (the Martin Mariner had very bad reputation among pilots of the time because their fuel tanks inflamaban very easily; so a seen Flash shortly after take off the ship, could correspond to its explosion). Additionally, the intrigue was increased to know that the report of the accident of the Navy attributed it to 'causes or reasons unknown'.

While some facts of the Berlitz version are essentially accurate, does not describe some important details. The vision of an experienced squadron of pilots of combat losing in a sunny afternoon is inaccurate. For when the last flight 19 radio transmission was received, he had begun a stormy weather. Only the leader of flight, Lieutenant Charles Carroll Taylor, had combat experience and a time of significant flight, but at the same time had very little experience in this area in particular, smaller than the trainees under his service, Taylor was described as a calm and confident leader. Instead, flight 19 radio transmissions revealed a Taylor disoriented, with a lack of confidence in their decisions, and completely lost.

In addition, exaggerated claims established that all the aircraft had problems with their compasses. However, the Naval reports and written records of talks between Lieutenant Taylor and other pilots of flight 19 not indicated this. With regard to the report of the Navy, it was stated that the original report attributed the crash to the confusion of the flight commander. Lieutenant Taylor had previously left his ship on two occasions in the middle of the Pacific have been lost, to return to the carrier. However, the report was altered to portray another situation due to the wishes of his family.

Explanations of plane crashes

Methane could also bring down aircraft. The thinner air would cause the aircraft to lose lift.

Furthermore, the plane's altimeter (measuring altitude) measures the density of air. Since methane is less dense, the altimeter would indicate that the aircraft is climbing. The driver traveling at night or in clouds (where you can not see the ground), would mean that the aircraft is climbing, descending and react, causing the plane to crash.

Furthermore, methane ruin the engine air-fuel mixture. The plane's engines burn hydrocarbons (gasoline, aerofuel, aeronafta) mixed with oxygen provided by the air. When environmental oxygen levels plummet, the combustion could be stopped completely, causing the engine will stop. All these effects of methane gas have been demonstrated experimentally.