Because two weeks before he got on that plane, he suddenly found himself the apparent subject of a blockbuster newspaper expos. In any case, he was told that no replacement was available. 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. Dateline Washington. A plot to end it. creativerse programmable villager 1 min read. 00 01 02 55 CDR Roger, Houston. These, compounded by mechanical failures and what seems to be a failure of leadership, culminated in one of historys greatest aviation mysteries. 00 10 . The transcript wa Radio Reporter: Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, a leader of the America First Committee, has threatened to demand a congressional investigation of the way the Justice Department has been handling the prosecution of Nazi sympathizers. ), FT-74: What is your present altitude? A warm day with billowing clouds soaring overhead in the current of a gusting southwest trade wind. Flannery: I think that the coincidence defies the probabilities, Lundeen: Reason? Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you. Hart: When the FBI agents who are sent to the scene recover his body, they find a draft of the speech that he was going to give just a few days later. Pennsylvania Central Airlines had never had a crash in its entire history as an airline. 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. Plots to overthrow the United States government by force of arms. And I ran across this one, walking around, and it was just from the middle of her stomach, her head and everything, that was it. Maddow: The aeronautics board report concluded that the multiple witnesses who described abnormally loud roaring engines right at the time of the crash, those witnesses were onto something. They would then turn north and proceed over Grand Bahama Island before changing course a third time and flying southwest back to base. The general weather conditions were considered average for training flights of this nature, except within showers. Take a look back at one of the most perplexing mysteries in aviation history. Telling him the whole thing was, quote, "a witch hunt". Thus, had the flight leader flown west for 30 minutes, as noted above, they would have hit land. Where would it have most likely gone down? comments: this meant that he wanted to stay on the same frequency with the rest of his flight. He was reading about the last radio transmissions from Flight 19, a storied group of Navy fighter planes that vanished on a 1945 training flight from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., purportedly. A total of 14 airmen in five US Navy Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers set out from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for a combat and navigation training exercise. Heres the lede: "If Federal authorities probe deep-enough into the crash of the Pennsylvania Central Airlines plane which carried Senator Lundeen to his death in Virginia, they may find some highly interesting facts regarding Nazi activities in the United States. All Rights Reserved. We still don't know what caused it. He's got tears streaming down his face, but all he'll say to her is, I can't talk about it, and, I've gone too far to turn back. She doesn't know what this means. Speculation, but no proof, one way or another. The squadron (collectively called Flight 19) was led by Lieutenant Charles Taylor, who had logged over . Over the next few hours, the planes would make a series of errors. 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. He wept the whole way. Young: as a way to end Lundeen's life unnaturally. After that, apparently the pilots undergoing training made a navigational error. Maddow: This is a story of treachery, deceit and almost unfathomable actions on the part of people who are elected to defend the constitution, but who instead got themselves implicated in a plot to undermine it. Evidence that Senator Lundeen was involved in a criminal conspiracy, a conspiracy to subvert American democracy on behalf of a hostile foreign power. Is that a fight? Do some more research. Clocks are a simple navigational requirement. 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). Maddow: Even decades after the fact, eyewitnesses to the crash were just haunted by what they saw that day. It's kind of creepy to hold, right, because you realize what that document, you know, went through. Perhaps most intriguing, though, was something that was found in the passenger manifest from the flight. At this point, the ground systems got a good triangulation on FT-28s broadcasts, giving moderately precise indications of his location he was within a 100-mile radius of the latitude-longitude position of 29 degrees North, 79 degrees West. 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 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. This is a story about politics at the edge. That is of the opinion of others who flew the TBM Avenger in that era, who note that it didnt float for very long. There was no evidence that the plane had been struck by lightning. There are few events in U. S. history that spark the imagination to what happened than the disappearance of Flight 19 on December 5, 1945. Since the students were intent on going, since it was their final check ride before certification, he agreed to fly after all. I am over land but its broken. Hart: We have a number of the biggest figures in American politics in this period, they all fall under the spell of this sort of Nazi propaganda operation. 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. There had been 25 people on board that plane, including the crew. Maddow: Among all the strange circumstances surrounding this crash, there was also a note. In the World War II Command Files that are part of the Records of the Chief of Naval Operations (Record Group 38), there is a file unit titled Shore Establishments, Jacksonville Naval Air Station Board of Investigation 5 TBM Avengers 7 December 1945 that includes a copy of the findings of the Board of Investigation (Box 419). Im over land, but its broken. Have on emergency IFF. 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. Suspicions that the seaplane may have gone up in flames were all but confirmed by a passing merchant ship, which spotted a fireball and found evidence of an oil slick in the ocean. 2: They were supposed go out into the sea towards East for 56 nautical miles to reach point 2 (Hen and Chickens shoals) and drop practice bombs until around 15:00. However if you read books that concentrate on the mystery angle of the disappearance, he is shown in a very different light. Actually, it was flyable, but windy with rough seas. comments: winds at altitude were about 30 to 35 knots from the west, in other words, the winds were pushing the planes out into the open Atlantic east of the Bahamas.). Finally, the flight leader wasnt doing the navigating, but rather the students were flying the route prescribed estimating time and distance while holding the prescribed headings. However, those who claim that something mysterious happened are simply making up stories out of thin air. Maddow: Historian Nancy Beck Young has done extensive research on this fight in Congress, and in the streets. We didnt go far enough east, he said, still worried that he might be in the Gulf. Since the planes have still never been recovered, the true fate of . At one point does try to visit the troops and is turned away by the military because he's seen as a, an almost unpatriotic figure. What he appears to be is emotionally distraught. Now as he was sworn in to the Senate in the late 1930s, the U.S. was weighing getting involved in the Second World War. 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. Route takem by Flight 19 (Image: GETTY) "These reports indicate that Taylor was flying over the Bahama Islands and mistook them for the Florida Keys. One the PBM-5s made a routine call at 7:30 PM and then was never heard from again. It was the only one of the four planes that did not reach its intended target, instead crashing in an empty field just outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, about 150 miles northwest of Washington, D.C. On 7 September 1983, Japan and the United States jointly released a transcript of Soviet communications, intercepted by the listening post at Wakkanai, Japan to an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council. He lay in state at the state capitol. This tool uses JavaScript and much of it will not work correctly without it enabled. When fuel began to run low, Taylor was heard prepping his men for a potential crash landing in the ocean. We pick up the first messages to and from the lead aircraft, going by the call sign Fox Tare Two Eight (FT-28). Its members eventually attributed the loss to causes or reasons unknown.. One of the compelling aspects of this story compared to others of ships or aircraft lost in the Bermuda Triangle is that the air stations along eastern Florida were either listening to or in communication with the flight commander Lieutenant Charles Carroll Taylor as the flight was getting lost. He had to escape one such angry crowd hidden away in a refrigerated train car. Because it turns out that in addition to U.S. Air-Sea Rescue Task Unit Four at Fort Everglades (ASRTU-4) (paraphrased): Suggest another aircraft in your flight take over lead since your compasses are out. Somewhere far out of sight of the coast, the five aircraft of Flight 19 ran low of fuel and chose to ditch together into the heavy seas of the open Atlantic, perhaps 200 or more miles out to sea. 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