Bermuda Triangle plane mystery 'solved'

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Two of the so-called Bermuda Triangle's most mysterious disappearances in the late 1940s may have been solved.

Scores of ships and planes are said to have vanished without trace over the decades in a vast triangular area of ocean with imaginary points in Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico.

But a new examination for a BBC series provides plausible explanations for the disappearance of two British commercial planes in the area, with the loss of 51 passengers and crew.

One plane probably suffered from catastrophic technical failure as a result of poor design, while the other is likely to have run out of fuel.
Sixty years ago, commercial flights from London to Bermuda were new and perilous. It would require a refuelling stop on the Azores before the 2,000-mile flight to Bermuda, which at that time was the longest non-stop commercial overseas flight in the world.

The planes would have been operating at the limit of their range. Today planes arriving at the tiny Atlantic island have sufficient reserve fuel to divert to the US East Coast 700 miles away, in case of emergency.
And the planes of the post-war era were far less reliable than today's airliners.

British South American Airways (BSAA), which operated the route, had a grim safety record. In three years it had had 11 serious accidents and lost five planes with 73 passengers and 22 crew members killed.

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"Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus"?!

:eek: :confused:

The cgi is rubbish, many parts are cringe worthy and the other parts are cheesy. Yet I still found it sort of enjoyable.

If you have ever watched the low budget films on sci-fi channel about the world ending. Be it a hurricane, sun spot or a earthquake that is heading for a nuclear power plant. Then you will know what to expect from this film.

I had to watch it due to the name.


I was hopping it would be that squadron of military planes that got lost.
 
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Don't be such a loon.

It was clearly undersea bubbles of methane gas rising and causing massive turbulence.

There are locations where unnaturally high waves are common due to their location. The resulting wave fronts reinforce and the waves have a larger range than normal. One of the issues with some oil rig locations according a documentary. The effect really appears during storms when it causes very large waves.

Methane bubbles from deposits of a chemical that breaks down with higher temperatures which is usually solid. The bubbles from large incidents cause the density under the ship to decrease sharply to a point where the water can't support the ship, leading to it sinking.
 
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the two planes are to feature in Derren Brown's next show as he claims to have made them disappear by getting a bunch of people to will them to transmute into the 4th dimention.
 
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