infamo infamous bermuda triangle. five us navy bombers disappeared, the planes, which looked a little bit like this, took off from ft. lauderdale, december 5th, 1945, only to disappear. the navy dispatched a sea plane to look, that plane disappeared, too. there was another well-known flight disappearance on october 13th, 1972. a chartered plane carrying a rugby team in south america. this mystery was solved. the plane crashed in the andes mountains. the survivors were found more than two months later and only have two of them walked for ten days to find help. that search for the plane turned up nothing. and more recent years, there is a mystery out of angola.
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just heart wrenching. my son, where is my son, she said. let s bring in atika. i can t even imagine what that woman and all those families are going through. you ve spoken to some of them. what are they telling you? well, for the most part, they re telling me that it s not just the lack of information, it s the fact that there s so many bits of conflicting information. for example, the fact that they suddenly found out that the plane may have not crasheded, but that it in fact flew for hours and hours after it made that westward turn, then the realizization that the signal that the satellites have been getting could have been gotten there were hopes then that the plane had landed and
it s new to. it can travel farther. still a heavy lift for them because those planes are coming from here, 1600 miles. as they get out here, they re about to the end of their range, so they can t stay on station long. they ve got to turn around and come back after they got a piece of this area and return again, but these are powerful aircraft. still, authorities made an estimate as to how long it s going to take, at least a few weeks. remember, too, as those planes are searching, they re only searching on the surface of the water. they can t peer under the water to look for wreckage or to listen for the black box s pings. and if indeed this is the area where the plane went down, that s the first signal we would have. is some wreckage found in that area. thank you so much. let s talk more about the latest that we know about flight 370 and the search with our parnl. anthony roman is a commercial pilot and the president of roman and associates, a global investigation firm and steve wall
tarmac. atika went inside, she was ready to fly with them. they would not let this plane take off. it s pretty shock. shocking. we re going to speak with the commander. we ll get the latest on this latest, very irritating development. up next, other planes have it. sophisticated technology that can track a jet in real time. reporting technical emergencies immediately, so why was that machinery not on the boeing 777?