Editing Bermuda Triangle (section)

===Flight 19===
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[[File:Grumman TBF-1 Avengers of VGS-29 in flight over Norfolk, Virginia (USA), on 1 September 1942 (80-G-427475).jpg|upright|thumb|left|US Navy Avengers, similar to those of Flight 19]]

Flight 19 was a training flight of five [[Grumman TBF Avenger|TBM Avenger]] torpedo bombers that disappeared on 5 December 1945, while over the Atlantic. The squadron's flight plan was scheduled to take them due east from [[Fort Lauderdale]] for {{cvt|141|mi}}, north for {{cvt|73|mi}}, and then back over a final {{cvt|140|mi|4=0}} leg to complete the exercise. The flight never returned to base. The disappearance was attributed by Navy investigators to navigational error leading to the aircraft running out of fuel.

One of the search and rescue aircraft deployed to look for them, a [[Martin PBM Mariner|PBM Mariner]] with a 13-man crew, also disappeared. A tanker off the coast of Florida reported seeing an explosion<ref name = "The_Loss_of_Flight_19">{{cite web |url=http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq15-1.htm |title=The Loss of Flight 19 |publisher=history.navy.mil| access-date = 20 September 2006| archive-date = 13 April 2009| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090413074152/http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq15-1.htm| url-status = dead}}</ref> and observing a widespread oil slick when fruitlessly searching for survivors. The weather was becoming stormy by the end of the incident.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/the_disappearance_of_flight_19.html |title=The Disappearance of Flight 19 |work=Bermuda-Triangle.Org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060819190905/http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/the_disappearance_of_flight_19.html |archive-date=19 August 2006 |access-date=26 June 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> According to contemporaneous sources, the Mariner had a history of explosions due to vapor leaks when heavily loaded with fuel, as it might have been for a potentially long search-and-rescue operation.<ref name=Leadbeater-2020>{{cite web |url=https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/reviews-and-advice/the-strange-tale-of-flight-19--the-mystery-that-sparked-the-bermuda-triangle-myth-20201215-h1stmu.html |title=The strange tale of Flight 19 – the mystery that sparked the Bermuda Triangle myth |last=Leadbeater |first=Chris |work=[[Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=16 December 2020|access-date=26 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230926073624/https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/reviews-and-advice/the-strange-tale-of-flight-19--the-mystery-that-sparked-the-bermuda-triangle-myth-20201215-h1stmu.html|archive-date=26 September 2023|url-status=live}}</ref>