Flight 19, five Grumman Avengers with 14 aviators aboard, lumbered out of the Navy base at what today is the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on a blustery afternoon on Dec. 5 ...

over 600 of them in Avengers – reported a problem. Lieutenant Taylor thought his Avenger’s compass was malfunctioning, convincing himself that Flight 19 had been travelling in entirely the ...

"This potentially might not be one of the Avengers from Flight 19, but it still has a story to tell, and by knowing what this aircraft is, we know where Flight 19 isn't." Muddying the waters is ...

It should have been a routine page in the diary out on Florida's east coast, where Flight 19 – a small group of Grumman TBM Avengers – was preparing to leave Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale.

The loosely defined region of the North Atlantic Ocean gets its nickname as the Bermuda Triangle, or Devil’s Triangle, due to the number of aircrafts and ships that have disappeared in the area.

McElhiney will talk about the Dec. 5, 1945 disappearance of five Avengers on a routine training flight off Florida. The free program will take place at 7 p.m. at the museum, 501 N. Fig Tree Lane ...