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- NATION, Page 32American NotesBERMUDA TRIANGLEIt's Still the Lost Squadron
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- When a cluster of five Navy Avenger planes was found off the
- coast of Fort Lauderdale last month, salvage experts were sure
- they had at last found Flight 19. Known as the Lost Squadron,
- its disappearance in 1945 had helped launch the legend of the
- Bermuda Triangle. Preliminary evidence seemed to support the
- experts' conclusion: the identifying numbers of two of the
- planes were the same, as was the number of downed aircraft.
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- But in a surprise about-face last week, high-tech
- salvagers who found the planes announced they were not the Lost
- Squadron after all. They appeared to be five separate aircraft
- that had crashed within 1 1/2 miles of each other on individual
- training missions. Still, Graham Hawkes, who headed the search,
- resisted the legend of the Triangle. "I don't know where Flight
- 19 is," he said. "But it's certainly in the ocean and not up
- with the aliens anywhere."
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