The two-seat taiwanese fighter jet disappeared last week during a routine training mission over the Taiwan Strait. Debris and body parts were found the next day, but authorities are at a loss to explain what happened.The Oct. 20 crash revived decades-old speculation: Are Taiwan"s Penghu islands the Bermuda Triangle of Asia?"The Bermuda terror," boomed a headline in the United Evening News, a Taiwanese newspaper. "Three hundred dead or missing in 40 years over here."Cable news stations aired grisly images of earlier plane crashes in the area, sparking debate in internet chat rooms.The reports prompted Penghu officials to issue a statement disputing the Bermuda Triangle comparison,which they fear might scare away investors in a casino resort and other projects.Most experts dismiss the idea and speculation that an irregular magnetic field disrupts navigation instruments.
Scientists have found nothing abnormal in the area, says geologist Chen Wen-shan at National Taiwan University. The pristine waters around the Penghu islands, a popular beach destination 50 miles (80km) west of the Taiwanese mainland, have seen their share of crashes.Government records show at least three commercial planes, one civilian helicopter and five fighter jets have crashed in the area in the past two decades.Earlier, several spy planes reportedly went down or missing while flying missions to mainland China during the Cold War in the 1960s and 1970s. The military refuses to confirm the reports,saying most of the documents remain classified.The deadliest accident came in May 2002, when a China Airlines flight to Hong Kong broke into four parts over seas north of Penghu, killing all 225 aboard. Seven months later, a cargo plane crashed in the same area.The back-to-back crashes bolstered the Bermuda Triangle speculation so much, that tourists all but shunned Penghu in the following months.So far, the recent fighter jet crash has not rekindled as many jitters among the public, much to the relief of local officials.
by
Corwin
Nearly
everyone knows of the Bermuda Triangle, that mysterious area in the Atlantic
where ships and planes have been disappearing without a trace. All manner of
bizarre occurrences have been reported there, from magnetic anomalies to freak
storms and waves, to the complete cessation of all electrical activity. On
almost the exact opposite side of the planet, in the Pacific Ocean off the coast
of Japan, there is a similar, though less widely known, mystery of the se...The Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle-Solved?
In 1975 a librarian by the name of Larry Kusche published a book entitled The
Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved. In the book Kusche revealed that many of the
strange accidents and disappearances reported in the Bermuda Triangle were not
so "paranormal" after all. In many accounts, he discovered that when a writer
had noted that a ship went down in calm waters, a raging storm had caused the
ship to sink, or when other ships were reported to have mysteriously vanished,
their ...USS CYCLOPS and USS NINA - Lost in the Bermuda Triangle
USS Niña: Niña,
a 4th rate iron screw steamer, was laid down by Reaney, Son, and Archbold,
Chester, Pa., in 1864; launched 27 May 1865; delivered at New York Navy Yard 26
September 1865; and placed in service as a yard tug at the Washington Navy Yard
6 January 1866, Ensign F. C., Hall commanding that ship and sister tugs Primrose
and Rescue. Niña operated as a yard tug for the Washington Naval Gun Factory
through May 1869 and was then converted to a torpedo boat. She commissioned...Monsters from beneath the Bermuda Triangle
In the permanently dark waters beneath the Bermuda Triangle, scientists have uncovered a remarkably diverse range of extraordinary sea creatures. Many of the new species could shed light on the state of the world's oceans.Retrieving tiny sea animals - zooplankton - at depths of up to three miles, and even reading their genetic codes on a rolling sea, scientists carrying out a census of marine life have revealed new details about the role of these fragile creatures in the climate and food cha...Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle (a.k.a. the Devil's Triangle) is a triangular area in the Atlantic
Ocean bounded roughly at its points by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. Legend has it that
many people, ships and planes have mysteriously vanished in this area. How many have
mysteriously disappeared depends on who is doing the locating and the counting. The size
of the triangle varies from 500,000 square miles to three times that size, depending on
the imagination of the aut...Bermuda Triangle (Devil's Triangle)
The Bermuda Triangle is located in the South-Alantic ocean.
Although many ships and aircrafts sink in the triangle, there are also many that
sink outside of the Bermuda Triangle. There is no real triangle if you look at a
map of all the wrecks in the Atlantic. The real goemetric shape that shoud be
used is an oval or oblong circle. The triangle may just be a figment of our
imagination, or maybe it's not....
Ocean Floor: North-American Continental Shelf explains the wonderful blue
...Plane goes missing in Bermuda Triangle
The pilot of a plane that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle with 11 passengers aboard had only a U.S. student pilot license and should have never been allowed to fly, Dominican authorities said Wednesday.Adriano Jimenez had been stripped of his Dominican license in 2006 because he was caught flying multiengine planes when he was only authorizedto fly helicopters, said Pedro Dominguez, president of the Dominican Pilots Association. Two weeks ago, he had a minor accident while landing a small pl...Pair rescued in Bermuda Triangle
The Bermuda Triangle is a region that is infamous for the mysterious disappearances of boats and planes with people never being seen or heard from again. In a story revealed this week a couple from Manchester have described how they became stranded at sea in the region when their boat"s rudder broke, leaving them stranded for 40 days until finallybeing rescued."A man from Greater Manchester has spoken aboutbeing rescued ne...Is the Bermuda Triangle a dangerous place?
Charles Berlitz popularized the myth of the Bermuda Triangle in his 1974 book on the topic. He and others described a triangular area with vertices loosely defined by Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Florida as a place of countless mysterious disappearances.Speculation about why so many vessels and planes have vanished in the area has ranged from the mundane such as the release of methane bubbles from the ocean floor to the more bizarre such as alien abductions.One of the more famous disappe...Bermuda Triangle plane mystery 'solved'
Two of the so-called Bermuda Triangle's most mysterious disappearances in the late 1940s may have been solved. Scores of ships and planes are said to have vanished without trace over the decades in a vast triangular area of ocean with imaginary points in Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico. But journalist Tom Mangold's new examination for the BBC provides plausible explanations for the disappearance of two British commercial planes in the area, with the loss of 51 passengers and c...
All our articles are sorted under categories and topics, making it easier to cross reference different subjects. Below are all the different categories the articles are sorted under alphabetically.
66(66/0) 
The two-seat taiwanese fighter jet disappeared last week during a routine training mission over the Taiwan Strait. Debris and body parts were found the next day, but authorities are at a loss to explain what happened.The Oct. 20 crash revived decades-old speculation: Are Taiwan"s Penghu islands the Bermuda Triangle of Asia?"The Bermuda terror," boomed a headline in the United Evening News, a Taiwanese newspaper. "Three hundred dead or missing in 40 years over here."Cable news stations aired grisly images of earlier plane crashes in the area, sparking debate in internet chat rooms.The reports prompted Penghu officials to issue a statement disputing the Bermuda Triangle comparison,which they fear might scare away investors in a casino resort and other projects.Most experts dismiss the idea and speculation that an irregular magnetic field disrupts navigation instruments. 
View: Full Article | Source: New Zealand Herald 
Japans Bermuda - The Dragon Triangle
The Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle-Solved?
Monsters from beneath the Bermuda Triangle
Bermuda Triangle
Bermuda Triangle (Devil's Triangle)
Plane goes missing in Bermuda Triangle
Is the Bermuda Triangle a dangerous place?
Bermuda Triangle plane mystery 'solved'
