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A Mariner, otherwise noted for its WW2 and post-War service, was the type that vanished searching for Flight 19. Flight 19 vanished in the Bermuda Triangle, it and the Mariner that searched for it were never found with its 14 crew, though it was thought to have suffered a mid-air explosion.
Flight 19 was the designation of a group of five General Motors TBF Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945, after losing contact during a United States Navy overwater navigation training flight from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
1945: December 5, Flight 19 (five TBF Avengers) lost with 14 airmen, and later the same day PBM Mariner BuNo 59225 lost with 13 airmen while searching for Flight 19. [2] 1947: July 3, a Douglas C-54 crashed off the Florida coast after the pilot lost control in turbulence. [3]
In 2004, during a surveying flight, a Chilean navy airplane flew over the site using ground penetrating radar to discover the exact location. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] A two-expedition recovery mission was planned, but subsequently cancelled, for both November 2008 and November 2009 to recover the three fatalities of the crash from their temporary grave.
The next year was spent building up the NATS operation. In March 1943, NATS Wing West Coast and NATS Wing Atlantic were formed. NATS received its first R5D(C-54) in the spring of 1943. Seaplane operations were conducted with the transport versions of the Consolidated PB2Y Coronado and the Martin PBM Mariner. NATS utilized the airlines as much ...
Whaler scouting flight crash [26] [27] west of Scott Island, Antarctica 1948 Fire (building) 2 Hope Bay fire [28] Base D, Hope Bay, Graham Land, Antarctica 1 survivor 1959 Aircraft: 2 Marble Point plane crash [29] Marble Point, Antarctica 3 survivors 1969 Aircraft: 2 Mount McLennan helicopter crash [30] Taylor Valley, Antarctica 6 survivors ...
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