Flight 19 Another look at the radio messages

[Colin Taylor]

Hi Tighars

How did Flight 19 get lost?

The official US Navy report on the loss of Flight 19, formerly on microfilm, is now available on-line. I have used it to collate the radio transcripts and testimonies to create a timeline of events and plot the radio messages on a chart. By plotting the course with correct navigation calculations and with knowledge of human-factors in aviation, it is not too difficult to come up with a plausible explanation for what happened.
I daresay that this has been done before, but I have never seen the results mapped out, so here we are.
The report and the chart are attached.

Please take a look and tell me what you think. I am not proposing that we go look for the missing planes; the Atlantic Ocean is 6500ft deep out there!

Cheers
Colin

[Martin X. Moleski, SJ]

Nice work, Colin!

I have never seen that correlation between the radio transcripts and a chart.

Well done!

[Jeff Lange]

The loss of flight 19 always perplexed me. Having read much of the theories about how and why, I just never could understand why they didn't fly NNW and hit the Florida peninsula, or the Gulf coast (if they thought somehow they were NOT in the Atlantic. Even if all of their instruments were haywire, you could judge it close enough from the rough sun position.
Alas, like Amelia's plane, unless an any idiot artifact with a identifying serial number is ever located, this mystery will never be solved.