Air France 447 mystery, LOST, and The Bermuda Triangle

June 5, 9:45 PMBaltimore Weather ExaminerTony Pann

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LOST on ABC: Oceanic Flight 815 breaking up from mysterious EMP

This is not an attempt to shed light on this tradegy, but a lot of buzz is being generated about the the missing Air France Airbus and its similarities to Oceanic Flight 815 on the ABC series LOST.  In fact, after posting last night about the natural atmospheric electrical disturbance of The South Atlantic Anomaly, I read reports this morning that the debris field shows no signs of flight 447... the mystery has deepened.

Fans of LOST know how deeply complex the show is, so I can make no attempt to explain it all here.  But basically, a flight across the Pacific was brought down by a large electrical magnetic energy pulse (EMP), which was later found to be a released from "The Island".  It brings to mind the natural points of energy or chakras on the planet (I will talk more about that on my Metaphysical Examiner page). 

On LOST, a build-up of this electromagnetic energy was released at the precise moment that the plane was within reach of the island.  The show goes deeper into the Darma Initiative Poject that resulted in controling and releasing that energy at precise times to 'save the planet'.  The plot of the show is that the plane crashed, but many passengers miraculously survived and were stranded on an island that has dimensional and time shifts.  That might be where I lose most of you, but there is a lot of science (time travel, relativity, string theory) that is used to support this. Call it science fiction or fanatsy, it has captivated a cult-like audience that tries to make connections with everything in the show and real world pop culture.

In any event, Friday morning's report stated that the debris found 'was not' from the plane. This is eerily similar to a plot on LOST, where a wealthy man, Charles Widmore, paid to transport a plane fuselage with cadavers to stage the debris from flight 815 on the ocean floor.  This is not what is currently happening, but since it was brought to my attention, I wanted to share it.  Now we are left to ask- Where is it?

We have an uneven electrical field surrounding Earth that protects us from most, but not all, cosmic energy. If you missed the previous posts, click here for:

• The South Atlanic Anomaly
• The Van Allen Belts images
• Lightning blamed for mising Air France plane
• The Inter Tropical Convergence Zone

While LOST is fiction, both stories do represent a fascination with missing aircraft and sea vessels.  Most famous was Ameila Earhart, who went missing in 1937 while trying to cirumnavigate the globe.  She was a pioneer as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.  But when she went missing over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937, it took nearly two years until she was declared dead.  No wreckage was ever found.

 With the search for signs of Air France Flight 447 in a vast open ocean, it was amazing that satellites and commercial pilots seemed to have found the wreckage within days.  It seems more baffling now that with our current technology, the truth is we still have no sign of where it is.  The question of how long the search will last begs to be answered. 

The Bermuda Triangle

The US board of Geographic Names does not recognize the region known as "Bermuda or Devil's Triangle", but it is commonly described as an area between Bermuda, Miami, FL and San Juan, Puerto Rico. This is well to the north of Air France Flight 447's dissappearance.  However, the 'Triangle' has been an area of myth and mystery for mariners (and recently pilots) for centuries. 

Many theories exist as to why there have been so many dissappearances, but the most practical are environmental.  Three particular theories described below are also illustrated in the slide show below.

Electromagnetism:   The Bermuda Triangle is one of two places on Earth (the other is off of the east coast of Japan), where a compass actually points to true north.  This disruption in the magnetic field can be confusion is unexpected. Normally a compass will point towards magnetic north and can differ by up to 20 degrees.  If the change is not corrected, a navagator can get lost easily.

Meteorology and the Gulf Stream:  This region is the source where many tropical storms and hurricanes develop.  The warm water oceanic flow of the Gulf Stream can greatly influence storm paths as well as the water and air currents in the vacinity.  This can overcome many efforts by ships and planes to compensate if captians and crew members are not prepared.

Topography:  The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a mountain range on the ocean floor that is the highest in the world.  That means the deepest trenches are found here as well.  This topography can affect the density and salinity of the ocean, resulting in changable currents without notice.  The ridge and trenches are also a source of geologic activity.  Methane vents have been described to relase large bubbles that rise to the ocean surface.  The bubbles can create whirl pools, as well as changes in air density above the ocean surface.  Sea or aircraft, in theory, could be greatly disrupted and therefore lost.

Most official agencies do not recognize supernatural forces in this region, but the theories are quite interesting.

Major source of information: The U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters and the Naval Historical Center.

Aircraft incidents- Wikipedia

• 1945: December 5, Flight 19 (5 TBF Avengers) lost with 14 airmen, and later the same day PBM Mariner BuNo 59225 lost with 13 airmen while searching for Flight 19.^[1]

• 1948: January 30, Avro Tudor G-AHNP Star Tiger lost with 6 crew and 25 passengers, en route from Santa Maria Airport in the Azores to Kindley Field, Bermuda.^[2]

• 1948: December 28, Douglas DC-3 NC16002 lost with 3 crew and 29 passengers, en route from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami.^[3]

• 1949: January 17, Avro Tudor G-AGRE Star Ariel lost with 7 crew and 13 passengers, en route from Kindley Field, Bermuda, to Kingston Airport, Jamaica.^[4]

 Incidents at sea- Wikipedia

• 1779: disappearance of Thomas Lynch, Jr. and his wife while sailing to West Indies.^{[citation needed]}

• 1843: USS Grampus, schooner, last seen March 15, presumed sunk in a gale off Charleston, South Carolina.^[5]

• 1918: USS Cyclops, collier, left Barbados on March 4, lost with 309 crew and passengers en route to Baltimore, Maryland.^[6]

• 1921: SS Hewitt, steam freighter. Disappeared.^{[citation needed]}

• 1921: January 31, Carroll A. Deering, five-masted schooner, Captain W.B. Wormell, 11 crew, found aground and abandoned at Diamond Shoals, near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

• 1925: December, SS Cotopaxi, tramp steamer, Captain Meyers, went missing with crew of 32 after leaving Charleston, South Carolina for Havana, Cuba, reported caught in tropical storm.

• 1963: February 3, SS Marine Sulphur Queen T-2 tanker carrying molten sulphur vanishes with crew of 39 off the Florida Keys.^[7]

• 1967: December 22, Witchcraft, cabin cruiser, 2 onboard, disappears one mile (1.6 km) off Miami; had called Coast Guard requesting a tow, but on their arrival 19 minutes later no trace found; possibly pushed north by Gulf Stream; search involved 1,200 square miles (3,100 km²). ^[8]

Numerous incidents erroneously associated with the Bermuda Triangle actually occurred elsewhere. These include:

• 1872: December 5, Mary Celeste, a 282-ton brigantine, sailed from Staten Island, New York City, bound for Genoa, Italy, on 7 November, and was found abandoned some 400 miles (640 km) east of the Azores; her last log entry on November 24 gave her position as 100 miles (160 km) west of the Azores.^[9]

• 1925: April 21, Raifuku Maru, a Japanese cargo ship which sank with the loss off all 38 crew, supposedly went down in the Triangle after sending out an SOS signal which allegedly read "Danger like dagger now. Come quick!", but in reality the ship was seen to sink in a gale off Nova Scotia and the SOS message did not contain the word "dagger".^[10]

• 1942: February 18, FS Surcouf, a Free French Naval Forces submarine en route for Tahiti via the Panama Canal, sank about 80 miles (130 km) north of Cristóbal, Colón, after a night-time collision with the American cargo ship Thompson Lykes.