Exactly 80 years ago, on December 5, 1945, an event occurred that became the starting point for one of the most famous legends of the 20th century – the mysterious disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle. This story, which began with the disappearance of five American military aircraft, “Flight 19,” during a training flight and the subsequent vanishing of a rescue seaplane, did not immediately attract attention. However, thanks to a journalist’s article in 1950, which linked this and other cases, and then writers, particularly Vincent Gaddis, who in 1964 first dubbed the area the “Bermuda Triangle,” and Charles Berlitz with his 1974 bestseller, the myth gained worldwide fame. Despite the fantastical versions proposed by writers, researcher Larry Kusche debunked the legend in 1975, proving that most disappearances were caused by natural cataclysms, crew errors, or technical malfunctions, and some cases occurred outside the designated “triangle.” In 1980, Kusche also analyzed the initial tragedy of “Flight 19,” suggesting loss of orientation by the commander and fuel leakage as the most probable causes. Thus, the famous Bermuda Triangle mystery turned out to be not mysticism, but the result of a real tragedy, inflated by the media and writers, but ultimately explained by science.
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