THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE |
At 2 pm on 5 December 1945, five US bombers took off ';
ReadingText+='from Fort Lauderlale in the USA for a training flight in perfect weather. Shortly afterwards, the pi';
ReadingText+='lots radioed that their flight instruments were all malfunctioning. Two hours after take-off, all co';
ReadingText+='ntact with the planes was lost. A reconnaissance plane was immediately dispatched to search for the ';
ReadingText+='missing planes. Within 20 minutes, radio contact with it had also been lost. No trace of any of the ';
ReadingText+='planes was ever found. In all, six planes and 27 men had vanished into the air. The disap'; ReadingText+='pearance of the six planes was far from being the first mysterious incident in the area: for years, '; ReadingText+='navigational problems and strange magnetic forces had been reported. The disappearance was not even '; ReadingText+='the greatest disaster within the triangle. The Cyclops, a 19,000-ton US ship was sailing from Barbad'; ReadingText+='os to Norfolk, Virginia. In March 1918, when it vanished with its crew of 309 from the surface of he'; ReadingText+=' ocean without making a distress call and without the slightest wreckage ever being found. The losses of boats and planes in that area defy explanation. The disasters are the origin of a ne'; ReadingText+='w phrase in the English language the Bermuda Triangle and this phrase has entered legend. The'; ReadingText+=' Bermuda Triangle has been called the Devils Triangle, the Triangle of Death, the Graveyard of'; ReadingText+=' the Atlantic. It has swallowed up 140 ships and planes and more than 1,000 people. Today many airme'; ReadingText+='n and sailors are still afraid of that area of the Atlantic Ocean. |