Flight 19 was taking part in routine navigation and combat training exercises in TBM-type aircraft when they lost radio contact and disappeared. Flight 19 was the designation of a group of five General Motors Eastern Aircraft Division TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945, after losing contact during a United States Navy overwater navigation training flight from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Jon Myher, a Lost Patrol sleuth, thinks the plane was part of Flight 19. The story of Flight 19 is a terrible one, to be sure, which resulted in the deaths of many men. None of the planes were ever found, and another craft even disappeared while searching for them. They had been searching Flight 19’s last reported position fix (the radio fix at 5:50 p.m.) far out to sea and immediately headed to the location of the explosion (about 25 miles off New Smyrna Beach), arriving there at about 10:45 p.m. Lt. Gerald Brammerlin, the pilot, and … A World War II airplane that was lost in Greenland decades ago has been found deep beneath glacial ice. Pic credit: Discovery. I am sure Bermuda Triangle enthusiasts across the nation were grieved to learn on May 17 that the disappearance of Flight 19 off the coast of Florida in 1945 was a mystery no longer. A hunter found a Navy warplane and two bodies near Sebastian in the mid-1960s. Graham Hawkes, leader of the sophisticated treasure-hunting operation, said the five planes were found … All 14 airmen on the flight were lost, as were all 13 crew members of a Martin PBM Mariner … Josh Gates retraces the Flight 19 path that ended up lost at sea in the Bermuda Triangle. The warplane was part of the so-called Lost … An interesting account has been written by Flight 19 expert Jon F. Myhre a former Army pilot and aviation historian, with his book: Discovery of Flight 19. This book comprises his … In a 1988 story by longtime Palm Beach Post columnist Ron Wiggins, Myhre, then of Lantana, said he knew what happened to Flight 19.The Dec. 5, … The wreckage lay hidden for decades until a recent brush fire cleared part of the Everglades and made the old plane visible to a Broward sheriff`s pilot on a routine drug interdiction flight. Those in rafts would have found themselves separated quickly in the heavy seas. The mission is known among historians by its training designation: Flight 19. By morning, they probably never saw one another again. Within a few days, without water, they would have all died of exposure and dehydration.