Lawrence Kusche's Disappearance of Flight 19

Explanations and theories are being offered up all the time to attempt to debunk the strange disappearances within the Bermuda Triangle. This is especially true for the infamous disappearance of flight 19. There have been television programs from the History and Science channels and books like Lawrence Kusche's Disappearance of Flight 19. His theory is that the vanishing of the planes has absolutely nothing to do with the triangle itself but rather poor navigation by the pilots. The objective of flight 19 was to allow the pilots to practice plotting their course on plotting boards like this one and to have each plane lead for a certain leg of the flight. Kusche claims that if one pilot was mistaken in his direction during his assigned leg then the other pilots would blindly follow off course. He has received a great deal of criticism for his claims because many people find it hard to believe that the other pilots would not cross check the navigation of the leader. But still no evidence has been found to say exactly what went wrong with flight 19.

Bad Navigation?. (2004) Bermuda triangle. Retrieved April 9, 2008 from http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/html/bad_navigation_.html

Steven McConchie