Hello Captain Lim,
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.
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The Bermuda Triangle Mystery
Dear Peter,
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.
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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
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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.
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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
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it is nothing to worry just like the subjects of ghosts. i went through bermuda triangle once nothing happened to me
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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.
Whatever the reasons…
who knows
Flying over
khiladi
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Lim, read it, and think about it.
Lim
I understand and respect what you are saying completely. I’m a bit confused though. Hasn’t there been unexplainable things that have happened? And when anyone would try to explain it, it would not make sense. Hear me out real quick, I understand that within some people in society that things have to be explained. Take the triangle out of this equation for a quick second… Have you ever in your entire life have a “miracle” happen with you or someone that you cherish dearly? Think about it. Have you told a reasoning for how something happened and still questioned it in your mind? I surely hope so. Some things on this planet can not be explained. Say for example that the weather man said ” no chances for showers the next couple of days” and a huge rain storm came over the next day. It’s not the radar didn’t catch it or the technology wasn’t good enough or that the weather person was incorrect. It’s something else that gave us rain clouds. Have you ever heard of someone being in a severely bad wreck or had a severely bad injury? But somehow, someway they survived it? Somehow, someway they got to live to tell it.
Have a good day.
Best regards.
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However, it seems as though the government usually dismisses any mystery as exaggeration, falsifying, et cetera, when it is hiding something.
(About Area 51: I do not believe it has anything at all to do with aliens.)
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IS IT SAFE FOR PEOPLE TO GO INSIDE THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE?
All of you are crazy of acting dump
Really aliens? Time travel? you guys watched a lot of movies till you can’t tell true from false. One thing that really makes me wonder that how can no one go there to do documentary film or even explore in secret…One thing that I’m really sure about is a military base underneath Bermuda Triangle, including a laboratories of course some experiments and maybe when those airplanes came through maybe in these laboratories some super magnets stuff that can pull things maybe they are looking for something in the sea…..they are experimenting something for sure!!!!
And that Columbus stuff and his compass…GIVE ME A BREAK!! it’s clearly a lie by GOV to make ppl fear the place I don’t know if that military base still exist? I mean after all this talking in media they would be crazy to keep it..and believe it or not there are so many secret bases on the earth and beneath it but ppl are so dump they read and believe monsters, aliens, big foot ppl!! what’s wrong with you? and the Satan throne well yes I believe in demons are everywhere on earth they don’t have a place….what I’ve read that they have a diff world on earth you can’t see it “Humans can’t” but i’s not the Bermuda Triangle..
I swear ppl are dumb, All you have to do is to think work your brain don’t believe in these films and articles clearly they’ve been paid to write these stuff…to fool you from the truth…Another ugly truth is that some of these laboratories has something to deal with genetic manipulation in both humans and animals…TA TA ugly right? but nobody no something because they are more obsesses with Hollywood and it’s celebrities clever GOV right?
Dear Captain Lim
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.
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Regards
Peter Staheli