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When a cluster of five Navy Avenger planes was found off the coast of Fort Lauderdale last month, salvage experts were sure they had at last found Flight 19. Known as the Lost Squadron, its disappearance in 1945 had helped launch the legend of the Bermuda Triangle. Preliminary evidence seemed to support the experts' conclusion: the identifying numbers of two of the planes were the same, as was the number of downed aircraft...
Last week the Bermuda Triangle lost an important bit of its mystery. A New York City-based salvage company searching for Spanish galleons off the Florida coast discovered the remains of five Navy torpedo bombers that took off from a base in Fort Lauderdale on Dec. 5, 1945, and were never seen again. The planes, looking not much worse for wear, turned up in 750 ft. of water about 10 miles off Fort Lauderdale...
...story of Flight 19, the so-called Lost Squadron, was one of the cornerstones of the Bermuda Triangle myth, which was born on a slow news day in 1950. That's when an Associated Press reporter named E.V.W. Jones collated a report of various planes and ships lost off the Florida coast and put it on the wire. The story was picked up and enlarged by other news services, tabloids and magazines until the Bermuda Triangle, as it became known in the 1960s, was a cultural fixation...
...stake a claim, but the salvage company, Scientific Search Project, has already received a $150,000 offer for the find's location. If it proves to be the final resting place of the Lost Squadron, it should also put to rest part of the mystique of the Bermuda Triangle...
HISTORY A Bermuda Triangle mystery may be solved...