Airplanes Disappearances

Chapters 12–17 describe the days that Louie spent adrift, trying to survive in the vast Pacific Ocean. When his B-24 bomber crashed into the sea on May 27, 1943, only three men survived: Louie, his pilot Russell Allen “Phil” Phillips, and tail gunner Francis “Mac” McNamara. Over the next 46 days, they struggled to survive in two small, inflatable rafts while drifting across miles and miles of water.

Many of the men originally considered missing, were months later officially listed as dead. Among them, Corporal Walter E. Fortin, a flight navigator with the Army Air Forces.

After searching around the island, the body of a pilot was discovered. We have no further details at this

Ford Island had been hit bomb and torpedoes. One of the ships the USS Arizona was

But her plane never arrived. Aircraft carriers and ships searched extensively for Earhart, Noonan, and the plane, but they were never found.

Attention Getter: Since Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the disoriented magnetic compass off the South-Eastern coast of the United States, more than 1000 people have vanished into what is called The Bermuda Triangle. For centuries, many have reasoned with their fears of the unknown only to coin it a mythical second name, The Devil’s triangle.

Earhart's mysterious disappearance lead to different theories. One of those theories is that the Japanese kidnapped Amelia Earhart and her navigator Noonan, holding them captive. Earhart and Noonan were making a stop on Howland island, but before they arrived they lost connection with the U.S. Coast Guard. Years later, a picture was discovered in the U.S. National Archives displaying what is supposed Earhart and Noonan near Japanese troops. Along with the two missing people in the photograph, parts of plane were behind them. An American spy took the picture. An article in:

Amelia Earhart disappeared on July 2, 1937. To this day nobody knows for sure what happened to her. There are many conspiracy theories about what happened to her but there are still none that have been confirmed. her last words were “We must be on you, but cannot see you — but gas is running low. Have been unable to reach you by radio. We

Earhart's mysterious disappearance leads to different theories. One of those theories is that the Japanese kidnapped Amelia Earhart and her navigator Noonan, holding them captive. Earhart and Noonan were making a stop on Howland island, but before they arrived, they lost connection with the U.S. Coast Guard. Years later, the government discovered a photograph in the U.S. National Archives, displaying what is supposed Earhart and Noonan near Japanese troops. Along with the two missing people in the photograph, parts of plane were behind them. An American spy took the picture. An article in:

With the evidence that scientists have found, there are only a picked few that we can make sense of. Some of the more popular ones, like the USS Cyclops and the Navy’s 5 torpedo bombers, really astound and persuade me to think that there really is something unusual happening in the Bermuda Triangle. They are persuading me because of how many things could have happened. Scientists believe that these ships and aircrafts get sent into an alternate or parallel universe,which is why we can’t find them. I think that most of the debri from the ships and aircrafts might be found in or around the Puerto Rico Trench, which covers 440,000 miles of sea, and is mostly undiscovered.

     In 1947 a UFO was seen near the town of Roswell, New Mexico. It was

     Some time in July of 1947, a mysterious flying object zigzagged across the skies of New Mexico. Within twenty-four hours the object disappeared from radar just as mysteriously as it had appeared. It was last seen in a small town in the middle of the Arizona desert, it’s name, Roswell.

On June 1st, 1999 American Airlines flight 1420 experienced a tragic accident that claimed many lives and made an impact on aviation worldwide. The event and it subsequent investigation shed

At one point in her last flight, Amelia had entered the longest and most difficult passage and the following results have been a mystery. The second to last checkpoint of this flight was from New Guinea to Howland Island. The 2,500 miles were never completed. The “Electra” was supposed to endure twenty hours. After the fifteenth hour or so, things started to go wrong. On July 2, radio workers on Howland Island started to hear some signals. They weren’t completely clear, but the workers knew the signals were coming in from Amelia’s plane. This showed that she was in some kind of trouble and really needed to talk to somebody. Very soon it became clear that she couldn’t hear their frantic radio signals back to her. Her last try of sending a radio signal was recorded 8:43 local time on July 2, 1937 (“Earhart Overview”). The immediate search for her and Noonan was headed by the Navy. The Navy started searching near and around Howland Island. Many people, even soldiers from the Civil War, came to help search for her and her navigator. They searched everywhere they could think of but had no success. On July 18, they called off the search. The Navy had their own opinion on what had happened. “The general opinion was that the plane had probably run out of gas, gone down at sea, and sunk without a trace.” (Beheim). She never finished the last leg of her flight, much to the people’s

You might know that the Bermuda Triangle is a legendary place where numerous disappearances have occurred, but how much do you really know about it? Some people don’t believe in such a place, but some do. Research has been conducted to try and figure out what could possibly be happening here, but with no hard evidence. The mysterious Bermuda Triangle may be more than just a myth though; the Bermuda triangle has a long history with disappearances, few people live through it to tell the tale, and possible theories have been made over the years; leaving scientists questioning this strange phenomenon.