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星期日, 十一月 27, 2005
美联社：美国为60年前百慕大神秘失踪官兵授勋
张三按：《新京报》的编译显然是基本符合美联社报道原意的，从美联社的副题：“议会决议无法解开飞机神秘失踪之谜”，就显而易见报道的倾向；而方舟子显然是为了他的个人目的而断章取义地进行了歪曲（方舟子《又见炒作“百慕大三角”》），这不是第一次，也不会是最后一次。
Bermuda Triangle dead honored after 60 years
House resolution doesn't solve mystery of planes' disappearance
Friday, November 18, 2005 Posted: 0045 GMT (0845 HKT)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The disappearance of Flight 19, a Navy mission that began the myth of the Bermuda Triangle, is still unexplained, but not forgotten, 60 years later.
The 27 Navy airmen who disappeared somewhere off Florida's coast on December 5, 1945, were honored in a House resolution Thursday. Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Florida, said he hoped the gesture would help bring closure for surviving families.
What happened is the question that has befuddled, entertained and tormented skeptics and those who believe that the Bermuda Triangle -- a stretch of ocean between Puerto Rico, Bermuda and Miami -- is an area of supernatural phenomena.
"There's just so many weird things here that experienced pilots would have not acted this way," Shaw said. "Something happened out there."
Five U.S. Navy Avenger airplanes left the Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Station on a routine training mission over the Bahamas. The five pilots and nine crewmen, led by instructor Lt. Charles Taylor, were to practice bombing and low-level strafing on small coral shoals 60 miles east of the naval station. They were then to turn north to practice mapping and then southwest to home. The entire flight, which Air Station pilots took three or four times a day, should have lasted three hours.
Radio reports overheard by ground control and other airplanes indicate the compasses on Taylor's plane malfunctioned 90 minutes into the mission.
With no instruments to guide him over the open ocean, Taylor thought the flight had drifted off-course and was actually south over the Florida Keys. As a result, he directed the planes to fly due north to hit land.
"He was not in the Keys, he was out in the end of the Bahama chain," said David White, who at the time was a flight instructor stationed at Fort Lauderdale. "When he went north, he was going out to the wide ocean."
Just about the time the squadron was to have landed back at Fort Lauderdale, a last radio message from Taylor was received: They would keep flying "until we hit the beach or run out of gas." Because of weakening radio signals, no reading could be made on the direct location of the planes.
Radio messages show that some of the students wanted to fly east, said Allan McElhiney, president of the Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Historical Association.
Yet military discipline overruled.
"You stay with the leader, that's the Navy way," McElhiney said.
The mystery deepened when a few hours later a Navy rescue airplane, a Martin Mariner with 13 crewmen, also vanished. A passing ship reported seeing bright lights in the sky indicating what could be an in-air explosion, but that could not be confirmed.
The next morning, White became part of one of the largest rescue missions in American naval history. Civilian vessels and units of the Coast Guard, Army and Navy scoured an area of more than 250,000 square miles, but no wreckage was found.
"In all the times I remember, we never had one plane missing," White said. "Five, all qualified, pilots missing at one time? I couldn't believe it."
Even the official review offered little explanation. The Navy Board of Inquiry report concluded, "We are not able to even make a good guess as to what happened."
Did Flight 19 turn east? Was landfall ever reached? Where was the debris?
Several ocean expeditions, documentaries and books offer varying theories, ranging from paranormal activities to sightings of alien activity. The SCI-FI channel will broadcast a new documentary November 27.
Bermuda Triangle author Gian Quasar believes electromagnetic anomalies in the area's atmosphere led to the demise of Flight 19. Such "electronic fog" can cause needles on compasses and other instruments to spin. This fog comes and goes and can cause pilots to become disoriented, Quaser said.
"It's something that will seize the aircraft and travel with you," he said. "You are not flying into the fog, it is flying with you."
In the years that David White flew out of Fort Lauderdale, none of his instrumentation ever malfunctioned. He thinks the planes crash-landed east of Florida and the airmen died on impact or drowned in the stormy waters. And the Mariner? That type of plane had such a history of accidents it was known as the "flying gas can," he said.
"It was pure and simple pilot error," said Joan Pietrucha, the niece of Howell Thompson, one of the navigators on Flight 19. "I don't believe in wacky compasses."
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/11/17/bermuda.triangle.ap/
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美国为神秘失踪官兵授勋 60年前失踪百慕大地区
时间：2005年11月19日03:41 来源：新京报
6架飞机27名官兵，同日失踪百慕大三角地区
本报综合报道 17日，27名“百慕大失踪官兵”终于在一个美国议会决议中被正式授勋，美国议员希望这一姿态能够让失踪官兵的家庭得到最后的安慰。美国佛罗里达州共和党议员克莱·肖说道：“我希望政府的这一姿态能够让失踪者的家庭获得安宁。这件事故存在着太多的古怪，富有经验的飞行员不会那样做，那儿一定发生了某种事情。”
雷达报告显示5架海军飞机同时失踪
据美联社18日报道，1945年12月5日，5架美国海军“复仇者”号飞机和一架“马丁水手号”飞机在百慕大三角地区先后失踪，令美国五角大楼深感困惑和震惊。
当时，被称作“19飞行中队”的5架海军“复仇者”号飞机离开劳德达尔堡的海军航空基地，飞过巴哈马群岛执行一项海军训练任务，5名飞行员和9名机组人员由飞行教练查尔斯·泰勒上尉率领。
雷达报告显示，当飞行训练过去90分钟后，泰勒上尉所乘飞机的罗盘显然发生了故障，泰勒认为自己的飞机已经偏离了训练路线，飞到了南部的佛罗里达凯斯地区，他下令所有飞机立即往北飞行，试图寻找陆地。美国劳德达尔堡海军基地前飞行教练戴维·怀特说：“他的飞机其实并不在凯斯地区，当他往北飞行时，事实上是飞向更宽的海洋，离陆地越来越远。”由于雷达信号相当微弱，地面控制站根本无法得知泰勒上尉所率领的“19飞行中队”的具体位置。随后， “19飞行中队”的5架飞机彻底失踪了。
几小时后，一架救援飞机也失去踪影
泰勒上尉和他的飞行中队与美军基地彻底失去了消息，更令人困惑的是，几小时后，一架载有13名机组人员的“马丁水手”号救援飞机同样也在“百慕大三角”地区失去了踪影。尽管一艘过往船只上的水手宣称，他们曾看到天空中出现耀眼的亮光，暗示飞机可能在空中发生了爆炸，但美国海军并没有在海面上找到任何有关“马丁水手”号救援飞机爆炸的证据。
海军历史上最大援救一无所获
第二天早晨，美国劳德达尔堡海军基地前飞行教练戴维·怀特和其他同事发起了美国海军历史上最大的援救行动，多艘民间船只和美国海岸警卫队、陆军、海军的船只搜索了该地区超过25万平方英里的海域，但却连一小片飞机残骸也没有找到。
怀特说道：“无论何时，我都不相信发生的这一切。
5名富有驾驶经验的飞行员驾驶5架飞机在同一时刻失事？我怎么也不相信这一切。”
“电子雾”令飞机全部神秘坠毁？
《百慕大三角》作者杰安·库阿萨相信，百慕大三角地区的大气中存在电磁异常现象，它直接导致了“19飞行中队”的厄运。库阿萨称，大气中“电子雾”可以导致飞机罗盘和其他指针胡乱旋转，从而让飞行员迷失正确的方向。库阿萨道：“那是一种可以‘逮住’飞机并和你同时飞行的东西，并不是你飞进了雾中，而是它和你一起飞行。”
“19飞行中队”到底有没有向东飞行？他们到底有没有降落？针对美国海军6架飞机同天失踪之谜，一些纪录片提供了五花八门的理论。美国科幻频道将于11月27日播放一部新纪录片，对“19飞行中队”军机失踪之谜再次进行了诠释。
60年后，美国议院正式给失踪官兵“授勋”
尽管6架美国海军飞机和27名海军官兵同一天在“百慕大魔鬼三角”失踪，但直到如今，美国军方科学家仍然无法给出一个最权威也最可信的解释，无法告诉失踪士兵的家属，他们的亲人到底遭遇了什么样的命运。
为了让这一谜案“尘埃落定”，11月17日，美国议会终于在一个决议中对27名失踪官兵正式授勋，并希望这一姿态能够让失踪士兵的家庭获得安慰。
据报道，“百慕大三角”位于波多黎各、百慕大群岛和佛罗里达州迈阿密市之间的一个三角带，上世纪以来，由于有众多飞机和船只在“百慕大三角”海域失踪，导致“百慕大三角”成了世界上最神秘的海域之一，被称为“魔鬼三角”，许多人相信那儿有超自然力量存在。（木子）
http://news.sohu.com/20051119/n227538776.shtml
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