THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE CALENDAR: December 1975

December greets the Triangle Legend with two heavy hitters: the discovery of the abandoned Mary Celeste in 1872 and the disappearance of the legendary Flight 19, a group of five Navy trainers who were lost with all hands in the Triangle in 1945, along with a search and rescue plane that followed them into oblivion. Kusche's The Bermuda Triangle Mystery - Solved demystifies some of the legend around Lt. Charles C. Taylor and his crew, including the full flight transcript which lacks the famous line "they look like they're from outer space!" which populated more sensational midcentury retellings, implying the fliers had been kidnapped by flying saucers.

Grumman TBF-1 Avengers, identical to Flight 19

The doomed Lt. Taylor

A Martin PBM-5 Mariner, the same type lost in search of Flight 19

Kusche's book included his best estimates of Flight 19's doomed path, with Lt. Taylor becoming disoriented and believing his flight had gotten turned around and was over the Florida Keys, leading him to fly the team out into the empty North Atlantic until their fuel ran out in an attempt to reach land that was actually far south behind them:

This modern reconstruction from wikipedia matches Kusche's work:

The photo star of the month, however, is a DC-3 that disappeared on a flight from Puerto Rico to Miami in 1948, with the loss of 29 passengers and 3 crew.

Lawrence David Kusche, 1974