The Unsolved WWII Aviation Mystery You’ve Never Heard of: Flight 19 and the Bermuda Triangle

Unravel the WWII aviation mystery of Flight 19, the incident that sparked the legend of enigmatic Bermuda Triangle. Join us as we uncover the perplexing events of December 5th, 1945, when five TBM Avenger bombers vanished into thin air.

Plus you will hear from the last man alive to make contact with those air crews.

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0:00 Intro
1:20 The last man alive to talk to Flight 19
2:00 Flight 19 takes off
3:19 The TBM Avengers
4:25 A blimp in the area?
6:10 Flight 19 runs into trouble
7:25 Radio calls
8:30 So where are they?

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[rogerkober]

Never heard of?? It’s well known among Warbird fans and anyone that saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind!

[badmaverick]

Never heard of?? Are you kidding? This is one of the most well known disappearances in aviation history along with Earhart!

[eye]

I loved hearing the last veteran to get in contact with flight 19 . To hear him talk like hearing flight 19 again thank you for putting him in video truly a privilege 👍🏼💯

[Tuleyne]

There must be a YouTube rule stipulating that content providers are required to pair interesting videos with horrible and loud background music.

[rickking]

I got to meet Al Kosner. He was supposed to be on that flight but didn't go because of a abscess tooth.

[aerotube]

Sad to think we are in the last days of hearing these stories from participants. RIP

[RichardKroboth]

My late father was a crew member on one of the 2 Martin PBM Mariners that went out to search for Flight 19. The other PBM didn’t make it back. A cargo ship reported an explosion in the air, my father said it was probably an explosion from gas fumes that had built up in the fuselage. The PBM he was in had the same problem. All he could do was pray that there was no errant spark on board. BTW my father thought the planes flew farther out to sea.

[PauloPereira-jjjv]

Avengers did not remain IN SERVICE for 20 yrs after WW II... not in US Navy.

[nigel]

Well why in the hell have you remained silent for 79 F-ing years?!

[Karadio_Mobile]

I hear about this over 50yrs ago, and is a well known tragedy.

[jimh]

I have always wondered why they didn't just fly Due West or slightly North-West. Florida is a big target.

[terrystevens]

The world and its mother have heard of flight 19 .

[localenterprisebroadcastin]

I first remember hearing about this story on unsolved mysteries …the old one with Robert Stack 😂

[JayPerry-pn]

I've heard of this story before.
Spacial disoriented and the inability to work with the rest of the flight was the explanation I'd heard. Still a great story.
I enjoyed this version very much.🛩️

[jeffreyfitzgerald]

I saw a better YouTube documentary about the base tower radio operator I believe. He kept turning down the power on his radio set and marking position of the dial where he lost their signal to determine if they were getting closer or further away. If you do a doc that says they're looking in the wrong place, you should say something about the right place other than just "the deepest part of the ocean". There's one theory that they mistook some Cuban islands for Islands off Florida and turned the wrong way. I've also read LT Taylor requested not fly that day and hag gotten lost and ditched in the ocean twice before.

[Raginggamer]

Supposedly they sent out 2 float planes like pby or pbm bombers with crews of 10 or more and one also disappeared without a trace while searching for flight 19

[Ronaldl]

At Fort Lauderdale airport. There is a flight 19 memorial near the control tower. There is also a small Naval air Station Fort Lauderdale museum. The building it's in is the building the navy used to train pilots on the Link Trainer during WW2. They have a few artifacts related to flight 19 also.

[tgfabthunderbird]

Lt. Taylor, the flight commander had gotten lost before and I'm guessing he was in trouble for this. He'd not wanted to take the flight. He became obsessed with keeping the flight intact and would not listen to his colleagues. I agree he became disoriented but why no one took charge I do not understand. Plummer is probably right, and the retracing of the flight would get a result.

[johno]

8.44 "They haven't been found because they're looking in the wrong place."
...Gee thanks for clearing that up. 😂

[myfavoritemartian]

Any one who does the same thing over and over expecting a different result is a fool. Too many were made officers.