Bermuda Triangle Mysteries that Caused Planes and Ships' Dissapearances Have Been Solved

 

Five US Navy planes disappeared in the triangle area in 1945

 

The mystery surrounding the disappearance of planes in the notorious Bermuda triangle might have been solved. You reserve the right to agree with the theory or no.

Bermuda Triangle is an imaginary angle on a sea having its vertices at Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico. It has been suspected to be a mysterious region that had swallowed up many planes and ships.

Conspiracy theorists believed many things including that it was the gate of hell.

Tom Mangold, a BBC journalist explained what might have caused the disappearance of the two planes in that area in 1940s.

According to him, one might have suffered a serious technical failure due to poor design while the other might have run out of fuel.

He claimed that sixty years ago when the British and South America Airways (BSAA) began London-Bermuda route, there supposed to be a refueling stop on the Azores before the 2,000 miles flight which at that time was considered the longest.

He revealed that BSAA had a grim safety record during the time under discussion as in three years it had had 11 serious accidents and lost five planes with 73 passengers and 22 crew members killed.

He concluded that the first plane, a BSAA Avro Tudor IV plane that disappeared without trace on 30 January, 1948 might have run out of fuel. More so, the plane’s heater was reported to be in very bad condition and that the pilot might have decided to fly lower at 2,000 ft to keep the plane warmer.

"Flying at 2,000 feet they would have used up much more fuel," said Eric Newton, one of the Ministry of Civil Aviation's most senior air accident investigators, who reviewed the scenario for the BBC.

"At 2,000 feet you'd be leaving very little altitude for manoeuvre. In any serious in-flight emergency they could have lost their height in seconds and gone into the sea."

The second plane, Avro Tudor IV belonging to BSAA that vanished between Bermuda and Jamaica one hour after departure from Bermuda on 17 January 1949 was suspected to have had an explosion in the mid-air due to poor design.

Flying at 18,000 ft, the plane disappeared without a trace and no distress signal was sent. Experts believed that it involved a sudden catastrophe.

Data showed that fuel shortage at 18,000 ft was not plausible, weather was good and the pilot’s error was ruled out; thus pegging the possible cause on poor design of the then infant aviation technology.

Don Mackintosh, a former BSAA Tudor IV pilot suspected the cabin heater mounted underneath the floor where the co-pilot sat.

"The heater bled aviation fuel on to a hot tube - and was also fairly close to the hydraulic pipes," he says.

"My theory is that hydraulic vapour escaped from a leak, which got on to a hot heater and caused an explosion," he says.

The explosion theory matched the sudden disappearance of the plane where no distress signal was sent. There were no alarm fittings to warn pilots of the danger and there were no automatic fire extinguishers as it is case with the state-of-the-art aviation technology.

These mystery solvers concluded that those comments from sober-suited British civil servants opened the floodgates for conspiracy theorists, hack journalists and mischief makers, adding to the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle.

Well, they have said their own; now, here is my position: Something there is in Bermuda Triangle that swallows planes and ships! Have your say at the comment box.