Could have been. At about 2:10pm Eastern Standard Time. "in radio logs, Peter Leffe has. He didn't sell it. Other books and fictional portrayals have suggested that magnetic anomalies, parallel dimensions and alien abductions might have all played a role in the tragedy. 1: Navy Air Station (NAS) Fort Lauderdale in Florida. Has anyone ever done the math to establish a general search area? And it's headed toward this field and it doesn't appear to be able to avoid it. Maddow: The plane that crashed was a new DC-3. Maddow: One local farmer told a wire service that the human remains, quote: "were so badly mangled, I don't see how they could ever be recognized.". The troubles only mounted after a front blew in and brought rain, gusting winds and heavy cloud cover. Among the warning signs first, none of the aircraft in Flight 19 had a clock installed, a necessary instrument if one is flying time-speed-distance legs. The full episode transcript for Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra | Episode 1: Trip 19. Hart: When American troops are actually in combat, virtually every member of Congress, every politician sort of makes a show of supporting the troops and even goes over to visit the trenches of the Western front and things like that. The temperature was 67 degrees. Headline: "G-MEN WERE SHADOWING LATE SENATOR." The sea was very rough., In that massive efforts with planes scouring the seas in close coordination one more plane was lost, a PBM-5 Mariner, with call sign Buno 59225. That is of the opinion of others who flew the TBM Avenger in that era, who note that it didnt float for very long. In any case, the Bahamas and the Keys look a lot alike from the air and most likely he was somewhere near Great Sale Cay, which was on his intended course i.e., nowhere near the Florida Keys. Flannery: I think that the coincidence defies the probabilities. Thus, had the flight leader flown west for 30 minutes, as noted above, they would have hit land. There was that official government report on the crash, which, frankly, left many more questions than it answered. So, Ernest Lundeen knew the cost of taking an unpopular stance in elected office. It was mid-afternoon on December 5, 1945, just five months after the end of World War II, when a routine training mission of five aircraft took off and headed east from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, for navigation training. Over. The official transcript from the cockpit voice recorder of the Air France Concorde Flight 4590 showed that the pilots were unaware anything was wrong until alerted by the control tower at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. A reporter for the Winchester Evening Star in Virginia filed a story from the crash scene that day for the Associated Press. But shortly after the patrol turned north for the second leg of its journey, something very strange happened. What is your altitude? (Ed. Im sure they dropped them, the only question is where. FT-28: All planes close up tight well have to ditch unless landfall when the first plane drops below 10 gallons, we all go down together.. These two series have not been processed or described, so the record dossiers would be the finding aids. As weird and mysterious as his death in an inexplicable plane crash would prove to be, his last two weeks before the crash were fraught with anxiety, even panic. The transcript wa So it's not, it's not very useful. Radio Announcer: Youre about to hear an address delivered before a meeting of the America First Committee in Madison Square Garden in New York City. Maddow: Perhaps most importantly, this is also the story of the Americans mostly now lost to history who picked up the slack in this fight, who worked themselves to expose what was going on, to investigate it, to report on it, ultimately to stop it. The air was very turbulent. Michael Appleton for The New York TimesThe Federal Aviation Administration released transcripts of radio communications between air traffic controllers and US Airways Flight 1549, which crash-landed in the Hudson River on Jan. 15. At some point, the storm disoriented the aircraft, and they became lost. The tragic, mysterious crash of a commercial airliner in the summer of 1940 left a scene of devastation in rural Virginia -- and a series of unanswered questions. The loss of the planes and crew of Flight 19 remains a mystery to this day. He informed the Air Station of the conflict and contacted Flight 19 to see if they needed help. Maddow: Even decades after the fact, eyewitnesses to the crash were just haunted by what they saw that day. The Disappearance of Flight 19 Paperback - September 1, 1980 by Larry Kusche (Author, Illustrator) 18 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover $8.20 5 Used from $8.20 Paperback $24.99 4 Used from $10.05 Drew Pearson plays this incredibly important role in blowing the lid off of this. And I asked his surviving younger brother, Mr. Painter, why do you think he did that? In reality, these responsibilities were scrambled during the last few hours of the flight. Maddow: In the wake of the Trip 19 plane crash, the Justice Department said there was nothing to see here. No one was under investigation, it was all just a coincidence. Maddow: The evidence of human loss across the hundreds of yards of the debris field from the crash, it was just devastating. We certainly don't know if something weird happening between the passengers somehow brought the plane down. Witnesses say, in fact, they heard the engines roaring full tilt right up until the moment of impact. It's absolutely an incredible artifact. In fact, the senator's secretary herself had reportedly witnessed something along those same lines. One the PBM-5s made a routine call at 7:30 PM and then was never heard from again. It was riveted in their mind. FT-28: One of the planes in the flight thinks if we went 270 degrees we could hit land.. Literally on the local railroad. And Ernest Lundeen threw himself headlong into the effort to try to stop that, too. Is that an argument? The transcript was taken from the tape recorder located on board Glenn's spacecraft. Our Associate Producer is Janmaris Perez. Steven J. Ross: They dont call themselves right-wing fanatics. We pick up the first messages to and from the lead aircraft, going by the call sign Fox Tare Two Eight (FT-28). And Senator Lundeen knew it. Maddow: Hidden away in a refrigerated train car. And he didn't just keep it for a day, he kept it the whole rest of his life. FT-28: We are heading 030 degrees for 45 minutes, then we will fly north to make sure we are not over the Gulf of Mexico. (Ed. It was a speech that was full of praise for Germany under Hitler. Reason? Apollo 13 Technical Air-to-Ground Transcript Raw PDF document courtesy Stephen Garber (NASA HQ) and Glen Swanson (JSC) ( 21 Mb PDF) Plain Text Format by Heiko Kueffen ( 1 Mb txt) This is the raw transcript provided by NASA to the press during the mission. O. John Rogge: I was told that I could make public any evidence of Nazi penetration that I might find, and why did he change his mind? Contrary to popular belief, the members of Flight 19 left a very telling trail of evidence of command failure, mis-navigation and error that, on face value, points to a truth that is virtually undeniable. The plane crash made sure of that. These accident reports include a form report describing the circumstances of the loss of the aircraft, who was aboard at the time, additional information related to the search efforts, and the general decision on who or what was to blame for the loss. Oct. 16, 2001. Apollo 11, Houston. Everything points to something far more menacing everyday human factors. Pic credit: Discovery. Just 20 minutes later, however, one of them seemed to follow Flight 19s lead by suddenly vanishing off radar. We have a flight plan update for you and some P37 block data, if you're ready to copy. At first, Flight 19s hop proceeded just as smoothly as the previous 18 that day. But more importantly, Kusche looked into who Charles Taylor was. I am over land but its broken. NBC Radio Anchor: In Washington, the flags are at half staff today. The transcript of the radio transmissions point to the former. They force-marched him to the local railyard, threw him in the refrigerator car of a train that was just pulling out of the station, and then locked the door. In the Casualty Assistance Branch Ships, Stations, Units, And Incidents Casualty Information Records in the Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel (Record Group 24), there are casualty reports filed under NAS Fort Lauderdale (Box 109) and under NAS Banana River (Box 108). And so you have to scratch your head. News videos. The flight path was a triangle that would have them flying east, doing a practice bombing run and then proceeding east straight out into the empty seas. Yeah. These, compounded by mechanical failures and what seems to be a failure of leadership, culminated in one of historys greatest aviation mysteries. And what exactly the Senator was carrying with him when he stepped on board that flight. But John Flannery has lived in the area for almost 20 years. But there was a passenger manifest from the airline. He had about 2,500 hours total time, but he was new to the command, even if he had previously been based in Miami and flown over the Florida Keys. Im over land, but its broken. Maddow: Senator Lundeen knew from experience that his stance against the U.S. joining the war in Europe might be politically unpopular. He lives about 10 minutes from where the plane went down. 00 01 02 55 CDR Roger, Houston. The search party spent five days combing through more than 300,000 square miles of territory, to no avail. And to him, something about it doesnt add up. Modern pilots are taught to recognize the Error Chain end things before they proceed to an accident. The reason for him to be concerned was that there was a good chance the feds were onto him, onto his relationship with that Nazi agent. We didnt go far enough east, he said, still worried that he might be in the Gulf. But ten days after his burial, all hell broke loose over the legacy and death of Senator Lundeen because of another newspaper report: September 13th, 1940. Posted by Nathaniel Patch in Military Records on Mar 30, 2020 1:37:00 PM. Lundeen: We are being urged on by insane hysteria. I mean, the, the sort of background notes for this go more than a hundred pages. Updated: 1:24 PM CST November 19, 2018. Was he fatigued or feeling ill? Father Charles E. Coughlin: Rest assured, well fight you and well win! In brief, for those unfamiliar with the story, Flight 19 was a training flight of five Grumman TBM Avenger Torpedo Bombers that took off from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, FL on the afternoon of December 5, 1945. comments: FT-74 was already airborne and thereafter he flew south. Well have to ditch unless landfallwhen the first plane drops below ten gallons, we all go down together. A few minutes later, the Avengers last radio communications were replaced by an eerie buzz of static. Then he's due to change planes in Pittsburgh for connecting flights all the way back home to Minnesota. Flight 19 has been listed as one of the Engineering and technology good articles under the good article criteria. Between when the article came out and the plane crash, Lundeen's papers show he received a letter from the German agent telling him to not worry about the press being onto them. He voted no to the U.S. joining the Great War. Under normal circumstances, pilots lost in the Atlantic were supposed to point their planes toward the setting sun and fly west toward the mainland, but Taylor had become convinced that he might be over the Gulf of Mexico. Now, of course, there were no survivors of the crash to tell anyone anything about what had happened on board the plane. Flight 19: Unheard Recordings by Flight 19 Share / Embed supported by I'm OK 00:00 / 03:27 Digital Album Streaming + Download Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Young: Angry crowds came out to protest him and his safety was in question on more than one occasion. I said I gotta get out of here, I cant take anymore of this. But there has been speculation that perhaps the flight was tampered with. Following is a transcript of the radio communications between air traffic controller at Logan International Airport [46R] in Boston and several jetliners identified by their call signs on the. comments: These instructions would have made sense if the flight had been over the Keys, but if over the Bahamas, it was the equivalent of vectoring the flight out over the open seas. Stopped, circled area using searchlights, looking for survivors. Had he been drinking? At the time, the ship radioed: At 1950, observed a burst of flames, apparently an explosion, leaping flames 100 feet high and burning for ten minutes. The rest of the transmissions were heard by ASRTU-4. Even if some did escape their sinking planes, they might not have pulled their life rafts out of the hatch on the rear fuselage before the planes were swamped and sunk in the heavy seas. The training flight and the aircraft were organized under Naval Air Training Command, Atlantic Fleet, which is a subordinate command to Commander, Training Command, Atlantic Fleet, and the search and rescue effort were conducted by units from the Gulf Sea Frontier. He pours months of effort into this speech. That one, we think we know. Lundeen very clearly starts sweating about this, this sort of relationship. Turning east the formation headed out over the Atlantic on the first leg. A Martin PBM Mariner suspended from a ships stern crane. It was in perfect repair, it had passed all its checks. Why was he so upset before he got on board? He was in tears leading up to that flight, according to his secretary. Some of the transcripts include a detailed explanation of . Scripts are listed by the first noun in the title. Besides these records that directly relate the topic of Flight 19, there may be other series in record groups that are overlooked because they are not as well known and somewhat difficult to use. Among the newly added series of digitized records to the National Archives Catalog is National Archives Publication M1657: Folder A17: Fort Lauderdale-5 TBM Crash-December 5, 1945 THRU PBM-1946, a single reel of microfilm that is part of the series Subject Files, 1945-1958 in the Records of Naval Districts and Shore Establishments (Record Group 181) that are in the custody of the National Archives at Fort Worth, TX. Betty Crocker Magazine of the Air: Episode . That letter from the German agent he was working with, it apparently did not ease the concerns of Senator Lundeen. That piece of gold, that became like a talisman, I think for him. Senator Ernest Lundeen: Fellow Americans, America prepares to take the last step before entering another World War. He says, quote, "Justice Department agents were attempting to find out the extent to which Berlin was definitely hooked up with any members of [Congress] when Lundeen's plane crashed. The series is executive produced by myself and Mike Yarvitz, it's produced by Kelsey Desiderio. The Navy sent out units to search for the lost planes as early as 6 PM that evening. The 27-year-old had just transferred to Fort Lauderdale from Miami, and many have since speculated that he may have confused some of the islands of the Bahamas for the Keys. While it argued that Taylor might have confused the Bahamas for the Florida Keys after his compasses malfunctioned, it could find no clear explanation for why Flight 19 had become so disoriented. ), FT-28, this is FT-74, what is your trouble?, Both my compasses are out and I am trying to find Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He had to escape one such angry crowd hidden away in a refrigerated train car. - Enjoy Radio Scripts from the Golden Age of Radio! The training flight was to take them east and fly near the Bahama Islands and then return to Fort Lauderdale. There was no evidence that the plane had been struck by lightning. The microfilmed series is a collection of materials that was eventually used in the Navys Board of Investigation including weather observations, the history of the aircraft and engine logs, a rough crash log, radio station logs, preflight forms, communication logs, incident reports, air/sea rescue plans, maps of the search area. Dont come after me., FT-74: Roger, youre at 2,300. His presence on the flight and the strange circumstances surrounding the crash would end up revealing threats to American democracy itself. ), FT-74: What is your present altitude? Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app. The crew could only make right turns in the. in the Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel (Record Group 24), there are casualty reports filed under NAS Fort Lauderdale (Box 109) and under NAS Banana River (Box 108). We tried to confirm those reports one way or the other. All planes close up tight, he said. The investigation found that there was no evidence of a fire on board the plane, no evidence of an explosion. The five Avengers are filed under VTBM1/L11-1 1945 in Box 5181 and the Mariner is filed under VPBM5/L11-1 1945 in Box 4766. Oct. 10, 2022, 3:15 AM PDT Transcript Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra Episode 1: Trip 19 It started with a plane crash. Apollo 13 (PAO) Spacecraft Commentary Video: Final radio transmission of Flight VH-MDX before it disappeared. She races to the scene of the crash. comments: There was no response but additional radio communications were overheard as the flight leader, FT-28, asked the other aircraft in Flight 19 for ideas. The amount of fuel left based on that location and airspeed. Part of the file addresses the aircrews status as missing versus being declared dead. There are some irregularities with the historical record, however. Something is wrong. In this particular case, a decision was made, based on the evidence on hand, but deferred the final decision to the Board of Investigation to be held later. As we consider the event, it is best to remember that the ill-fated members of Flight 19 were all quite green as pilots and flight crews. For the next three hours, naval air stations listened to the growing confusion and frustration of the commanding pilot as he tried to figure out how to either get back or land somewhere safe. You can find much more about this series you can even see the copy of Senator Lundeen's Nazi speech that survived the plane crash at our website: MSNBC.com/ultra. Only the flight leader,Lieutenant C. C. Taylor, USNR, was experienced. Flight 232 radio transcript Jul 13, 2014 Updated Jul 15, 2014 0 1 of 2 The wreckage of Flight 232 sits at Sioux Gateway Airport in July 1989. As it is these series have been processed with container lists, so they are more accessible. And that was in part, because it would not end up being just Senator Ernest Lundeen who was caught up in it. It was a terrible loss, but one with a clear explanation. If we would just fly west, we would get home.. creativerse programmable villager 1 min read. As we consider the event, it is best to remember that the ill-fated members of Flight 19 were all quite green as pilots and flight crews. The flights leader was Lieutenant Charles C. Taylor, an experienced pilot and veteran of several combat missions in World War IIs Pacific Theater. Maddow: So, the Senator seems to have been in a near-panic about being exposed in the days leading up to him stepping on board that flight a flight in which he, quite literally, was carrying a speech that was written for him by a Nazi agent who had just been exposed in the press. Radio Announcer: This is the National Broadcasting Company. . Flannery: Mr. Painter's older brother walked into the field and he saw teeth and there was a gold tooth in there and he threw it at the ground and broke out the gold tooth and he kept it. The remains of the Mariner and its 13 crewmen were never recovered, but its commonly believed that the seaplane exploded shortly after takeoff. Is that a fight? They were headed for Howland Island, a dot two feet . We seem to be bereft of reason. At that point, they were probably flying east toward the open ocean and were probably about 200 miles offshore. The air station is directly on your left from the port. (Ed. Click Below to Listen to Excerpts This audio is excerpted from several controllers over . Despite this knowledge, the flight's location was not adequately reported to naval air traffic control personnel at NAS Fort Lauderdale. It began as nothing more than a routine training flight. Flight 19 became hopelessly disoriented. On December 5, 1945, five U.S. Navy bombers collectively known as Flight 19 took off from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. for what should have been a routine training exercise. The fleet, known as Flight 19, took off from a Naval Air Station in Fort Lauderdale, Florida almost 77 years ago, on December 5, 1945. . If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it. He's a United States Senator from Minnesota. These records are difficult to use because most, not all, have not been processed and described, and therefore do not have easy to use finding aids. Clocks are a simple navigational requirement. Now, do you think thats sufficient basis to keep these facts from the American public? This confirms Flight 19s report of completing the bomb drop. Some of the passengers were locked in a struggle of some kind. Flight 19's radio transmissions soon became increasingly faint as it meandered out to sea. There is some evidence that the Mariner may have exploded in mid-air because there were reports from vessels at sea near the Mariners patrol area saying they saw a fireball approximately around the time another ship lost RADAR contact with the plane. He immediately informed the Air Station of the situation and then contacted the Avengers to ask if they needed assistance. Washington hears Senator Pat McCarren of Nevada, mourning the death of his senatorial colleague Ernest Lundeen of Minnesota, who died in that crash. The Mission Transcript Collection includes scanned transcripts from recorded air-to-ground transmissions and from tapes recording the words of the astronauts while onboard the Mercury through Apollo missions. . They let him out of the cold car. He's got his head down on his desk, his head is buried in his arms. Because the Justice Department's own prosecutors would soon reveal, in court, voluminous evidence they had in fact collected about Senator Lundeen. Senator Ernest Lundeen quickly became one of the loudest and most confident voices inveighing against the U.S. joining the fight. <br> The sea was moderate to rough. 00 00 02 46 . Another 20 minutes passed without clear signal from any of the aircraft then the following was heard (by this time, the flight was nearly out of fuel. ), Unidentified pilot: Dammit, if we could just fly west we would get home; head west, dammit. (Ed comments: This was the only voice of reason, one of the inexperienced pilots who recognized that they were still off the east coast of Florida in fact, based on even rudimentary navigation, that was the ONLY possibility. A sitting U.S. ), FT-28 (to his flight): Change course to 090 degrees for 10 minutes. (Ed. Bradley Hart: Allegations already circulating that he might be pro-German, if not pro-Nazi. There had been 25 people on board that plane, including the crew. He was buried in a military cemetery. Hart: There's a publication called PM, which is a left-wing tabloid, a muckraking left-wing paper in New York city, which happens to do incredible reporting. Maddow: This was just days after Senator Lundeen was buried and Drew Pearson just drops this bombshell. But it turns out it wasn't your average Ernest Lundeen stump speech. Jive Software Version: 9.13.0.0 , revision: 20220815205735.50e1b0c.master. Turn on your emergency IFF gear, or do you have it on? (Ed. The presence of those three individuals from the FBI and the Justice Department on the flight that day, along with the Senator, that could have been happenstance, could have been just a coincidence, that they were all on that same flight. Informative and well-written article, well done. Flight 19 was the designation of a United States Navy training exercise that took place on December 5, 1945 from Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Station, Florida, involving five Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers, which disappeared under still-unknown circumstances and claimed the lives of 27 men: the fourteen men in the flight, as well as an additional 13 men onboard a search and rescue aircraft . He and his secretary leave the Capitol building. The pilot was very experienced. Sadly, this was only the first part of this tragedy. 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