  Abiator's Reading: QAR Set 05:06 ACTIVITIES |
Bermuda Triangle »»  click for audioText from: Star Flight Workbook (Published by Scott, Foresman & Company, USA) Some people believe that there is some kind of mysterious force in the ocean off the coast of Florida, in an area known as the Bermuda Triangle. This belief began when, in 1945, five navy planes with fourteen crew members aboard, Flight 19, disappeared in that part of the ocean without a trace. Since then people have compiled lists of other mysterious disappearances in that same area of the ocean. Larry Kusche, a pilot and librarian from Arizona, looked into the Flight 19 mystery and other disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle. In researching the mysteries, Kusche found logical reasons for most of the disappearances. In the case of Flight 19, Kusche found that only one of the pilots on Flight 19, a Lt. Charles Taylor, was experienced. And while Lieutenant Taylor reported that he and his fellow crew members were lost south of the navy base, people at the base figured out that Flight 19 was actually north of the base. While the navy men thought they were flying toward the base, they were actually flying away from it-out over the open ocean. The people at the base lost radio contact with Flight 19, but they figured that the planes went down in the stormy ocean after dark when they ran out of fuel. By the next day the ocean had claimed all of the wreckage, and search planes could find no more evidence of Flight 19. Larry Kusche's book, The Bermuda Triangle Mystery-Solved, explains that many of the other mysterious disappearances can be explained by pilot error, engine trouble, or violent storms. And statistics show that the number of ships and planes lost in the Bermuda Triangle is no greater than the number lost in other heavily traveled regions of the ocean. |
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 RIGHT THERE  1. a) How many planes were in Flight 19? b) How many crew members were there? c) When Taylor reported Flight 19 lost, where was it? d) What is the name of Kusche's book? [2 marks]
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