On this day, December 5, 1945, Flight 19, a group of TBF Avengers, disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. [View all]

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• 1945 – Flight 19, a group of TBF Avengers, disappears in the Bermuda Triangle.

Flight 19

Disappearance of Flight 19

A similar flight of five Grumman TBF Avengers

Occurrence
Date: December 5, 1945
Summary: Disappearance
Site: Atlantic Ocean
Aircraft
Aircraft type: Grumman TBF Avenger
Operator: United States Navy
Flight origin: NAS Fort Lauderdale
Destination: NAS Fort Lauderdale
Crew: 14
Fatalities: 14
Injuries: 0
Missing: 14
Survivors: 0

Flight 19 was the designation of a group of five General Motors TBF 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. All 14 naval aviators on the flight were lost, as were all 13 crew members of a Martin PBM Mariner flying boat that subsequently launched from Naval Air Station Banana River to search for Flight 19.

A report by Navy investigators concluded that flight leader Lt. Charles C. Taylor mistook small islands offshore for the Florida Keys after his compasses stopped working, resulting in the flight heading over open sea and away from land. The report was later amended by the Navy to read "cause unknown" to avoid blaming Taylor for the loss of five aircraft and 14 men. The report attributed the loss of the PBM search aircraft to an explosion in mid-air while searching for the flight.

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In fiction

Flight 19 is featured in the 1977 science-fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. In the film's opening, the aircraft are discovered in the Sonoran Desert, in pristine condition with full fuel tanks, one of several mysterious events that imply extraterrestrial activity. In the film's ending scene, the crew returns to Earth from the alien mothership, seemingly the same age as at their disappearance

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Art Bell



How could I not link to this?

Giorgio Moroder - Chase (live by Kebu @ Sthlm Italo Disco Party 2015)
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This tune is now available on Kebu's "Live in Oslo" album:
http://ZYXDance.lnk.to/LIYi6KIp

Still a few copies left of the Limited Twilight Edition of my new album "Urban Dreams":
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Kebu's all-analog synth cover of Giorgio Moroder's The Chase, performed live at the Sthlm Italo Disco Party 2015 at Nalen, Stockholm, 16.5.2015.

Thanks to Jean-Paul Meulendijks, Alexander Guskov, Heidi Väisänen, Tuulikki Väisänen, and Renaud Guérin for operating the cameras!

The first minute is my own composition, "Prelude to Chase", that I composed as an intro to Chase. My arrangement of Chase is a mixture of both the original version and JAIA's Express Remix - with a few of my own additions thrown in.

The song was performed using only analog synthesizers, either played live or sequenced. The performance was recorded directly from the mixer to a stereo track and later mixed together with the ambience from the room. A few mistakes have been cut out and replaced with the audio from a rehearsal take.

Equipment used in this song: Logan String Melody II; MXR EVH117 flanger; Roland TR-808, Juno 60, Alpha Juno 1&2; Korg Polysix, Poly 61, Mono/Poly, Micro-preset M500; Moog Source; DSI Tetra; Jomox AirBase99; Touched-by-sound DRM1; Oberheim Matrix 1000; Marion Prosynth; Akai MPC2500 (only for MIDI sequencing), M-Audio Trigger Finger; Yamaha 01v96; Lexicon MPX500 & MPX550, as well as a midi patchbay and additional preamps for my mixer.

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Fri Apr 14, 2023: Giorgio Moroder, "Chase," or "The Chase," in memory of Art Bell, who died on April 13, 2018.