The hype surrounding the Bermuda Triangle, where ships and aircraft have vanished, has subsided somewhat — recently, the media have not reported on any high-profile mysterious disappearances. So what is happening there? Are air and sea vessels simply avoiding it, or has this place ceased to be dangerous? An aircraft pilot explains.
The mysterious triangle in the Sargasso Sea is bounded by Bermuda, Florida, and Puerto Rico. Beginning in 1945, 19 aircraft have crashed or disappeared here. The last one was in 2017, but the press barely covered it since there were only 4 people on board.
Large passenger airliners have never disappeared here, only private and military aircraft.
Taking the area of the triangle into account, the frequency of disasters here is not high: 0.256 aircraft per year — the same as over any other stretch of ocean. Most pilots claim that in all the accidents that occurred over the ominous triangle, the fault lies with the people who were flying the aircraft, and the mystification of this place is just a way to shift the blame from themselves.
