This is Steven. I am curious to know if airplanes now fly through the Bermuda Triangle. I know, back in the days, lots of airplanes and ships were lost there. Do pilots still try to avoid that area? I have heard that there is a strong magnetic field or something there. Do you know what really goes on there?
Thank you,
Steven
Hi Steven,
In my opinion, the Bermuda Triangle, like the Loch Ness Monster, is only a myth. Yes, I know many people, including those who love mysteries, would not agree with me. Well, the Triangle, located somewhere between Bermuda, Miami and San Juan in the Caribbean, is no more a dangerous part of the ocean than any other.
True, there were some planes and ships lost within or in the vicinity of the Triangle, and for sure, human beings, for what they are, would just love to attribute accidents to some causes, whether real or imagined. Yes, the Bermuda Triangle is also partly a paranormal pursuit of some that believe in the involvement of ghosts, demons or angels. Hence, the mysteries of the Triangle have flourished since the time of Christopher Columbus.
Remember, in the month of September 2005 where there were a series of air crashes, some theories were floating around that they were related or even explained through some supernatural intervention!
What theories have been raised to support the mysteries so far? Well, things like methane gas being released from the ocean floor; unexplained magnetic disturbances; some severe electrostatic charge affecting the human central nervous system and causing the pilot to lose consciousness are some of them. For example, there was the case of a private pilot flying in a single-engine airplane on a night solo cross-country flight, whilst under radar with Jacksonville approach, crashed into the sea somewhere around the area. Of course, the speculation was - the Bermuda Triangle factor! In reality, the NTSB attributed the probable cause to spatial disorientation - the main cause of accidents of a pilot who lacks experience in instrument flying. (He only had one hour solo night flying experience and the rest of his instrument flying times were under dual instruction. It was also a dark night with no visible horizon.) Spatial disorientation was also the cause of the JFK Junior crash – further away to the North of the Triangle. Had it been nearer, one would imagine what the speculation would be.
Do pilots still try to avoid this area? If they do, I believe they have to be those who are still obsessed with the Triangle mysteries. In reality, I see no reason why any pilots would avoid this Triangle if they have to fly through it.
In fact, from the Jeppesen Navigation Enroute Charts for pilots, there are five Airways that crisscross the Triangle. Of these, two (Airways B646, A637) connect air traffic from all over Florida to Bermuda. One from Nassau, Bahamas (Airways A555) links to San Juan and two more (Airways L435, L375) pass overhead the Triangle towards the African Continent. If the dangers of the Bermuda Triangle were true, the airspace above it would have been declared by ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) as a prohibited airspace to enhance air safety!
What about stories of strong magnetic field there? Well, magnetic field exists all over the Globe at varying strength. Hence, pilots need to be aware of the variations in different part of the world when navigating in the air.
The Bermuda Triangle Mystery is not a mystery. In matters aviation accidents - static electricity could be the reason. You as experienced captain be the judge.
If static electicity is the reason causing airplanes to crash over the Bermuda Triangle, ICAO would have declared the airspace above it to be totally prohibited. At the last count, there are 5 major airways criscrossing above the Bermuda Triangle.
Static electricity exists everywhere, especially in cumulonimbus clouds, not just over the Bermuda Triangle!
Thank you for your interesting contribution.
Captain Lim ,
27 Dec, 2007
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the bermuda triangle mystery
I think it is caused by methane hydrates, but i think the bermuda triangle is much different than any other part of the ocean.
Sally
Dear Captain Lim ,
01 Aug, 2009
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The Bermuda Triangle
There are planes and ships crashing unexplainably all around the world. I assume that people only choose to believe in myths like this and name it a mystery. All areas in an ocean have great potential force. Nothing so mysterious about that.
And by the way Sally, the Bermuda triangle is just the same as each other part of the ocean.
Unknown ,
16 Aug, 2009
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bermuda triangle
I think that people have heard so many myths about the Bermuda that they refuse to look deeper than those myths. they have absorbed in so much idodicy that they beleive it. most likely there is some reasonable scientific answer. it may alos be that the pilots beleive it when thay enter phsycologically altering their actions and do something wrong , expecting the worst.
-David Sinclair, age 15
David Sinclair ,
22 Sep, 2009
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Bermuda Triangle
I don't think that the Bermuda triangle is still dangerous to fly by. Many planes and ship vessels do travel in the same route and i would say that there is a particular place in the triangle where the planes and ships have a problem to pass through and its is a myth which requires scientific explanation.
Steve ,
29 Jun, 2010
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Bermuda Triangle
I don't think that the Bermuda triangle is still dangerous to fly by. Many planes and ship vessels do travel in the same route and i would say that there is a particular place in the triangle where the planes and ships have a problem to pass through and its is a myth which requires scientific explanation.
Steve ,
29 Jun, 2010
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mrs kishan
think i love kishan
miss mishan ,
28 Jul, 2010
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aliens
It was aliens, i am not even in any doubt
Brad ,
03 Aug, 2010
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Smarter than you obviously
Its not a mystery and static electricity is way of the problem is methane pockets in the floor of the ocean that are released and find them selves being released into our atmosphere and water resulting in engine explosions, fires and ceases. I am young and not a pilot and have never been to college it scares me you guys are and had no clue!!!
TJ ,
20 Jul, 2011
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bermuda triangle
it is nothing to worry just like the subjects of ghosts. i went through bermuda triangle once nothing happened to me
ronnin ,
19 Aug, 2011
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bermuda triangle
how about the dragons triangle its under japan, and planes and ships are not allowed pass there because ships and planes crash or sinks when they pass that place, and its along the line of bermuda triangle
asd ,
03 Sep, 2011
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bermudaaa
this is good
lily ,
15 Sep, 2011
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AWESOME
omg, this is totally awesome,
lily ,
19 Sep, 2011
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ghosts
i think there are ghosts and devils
sumeet ,
02 Oct, 2011
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suggestion-
construct a remote controlled plane big enough with cameras on it that will transmit videos simultaneously as the plane flies......fly the plane across those areas where risk of disappearances are more+the places where pilot lindburg and others have experienced something supernatural........if something do happens,it will be transmitted by the cameras.......have this kinda experiments already been practised? If yes...then where are results of these kinda experiments available on net??
S.S.S. ,
30 Oct, 2011
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bermuda devil !!!
my thought about the place have been so horrible from the stories i was used to from childhood that i even thought it is the place devil crash-landed on when coming from heaven
Aborisade ,
16 Nov, 2011
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Mohammed Jihad
This source makes Bermuda Triangle seems like mystery area.
Derkha Derkha ,
17 Mar, 2012
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Hadron Colliders
I know the reason for the bermuda triangle sucking in airplanes. It's all to do with secret government experimentation with hadron colliders. The government plans to travel back in time and save the dinosaurs. However, the hadron colliders exploded while the governmental plane was flying over the bermuda triangle. So now anyone who goes there travels back in time.
Dr M.G Hadron ,
17 Mar, 2012
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Bermuda
I LIKE PIE
Dr. Adam Smith ,
20 Mar, 2012
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2006 to 2012 only 2 hours
please tell me how can a person that is enjoying there boat trip in the triangle itself and in the middle of the day come across another boat thats named the ss cyclopes boad it in plain site just 3 miles off the coast of miami i only spent 30 minutes on that boat 30 minutes when i got back to the harbor poeple around me were shocked to see my boat and i slowly enter the area they asked me tons and tons of questions aboute how long i was gone for i told everybody around me that i was only gone for 2 hours you know what they told me i vanished in that abomination thing or whatever you like to call it for 6 years tell me how thats posible please now i live my life trying to understand what had happend and why
