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How the Disappearance of Flight 19 Fueled the Legend of the Bermuda Triangle

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60 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 07 Dec 25 12:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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PearlRiver ◴[07 Dec 25 17:02 UTC] No.46183136[source]▶
There was a Belgian passenger plan that got lost on its way to Teheran and had to land in Grozny. Before GPS planes had literal human navigators with maps and sextants!

I would be more inclined to believe in the Bermuda triangle myth if it happened with modern planes and their transponders.

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1. EdwardDiego ◴[07 Dec 25 20:57 UTC] No.46185094[source]▶
IIRC some passenger aircraft had a sweet periscopic sextant installed, and even the 747 still had a sextant port - not that it stopped KAL-007 crossing the Kamchatka peninsula...