Plane Carrying 4 Goes Missing In Bermuda Triangle

By Mojisola Delano On May 17, 2017

A plane carrying a family of four has gone missing in the Bermuda Triangle.

The twin-engine MU-2B was flying from Puerto Rico when air traffic control in Miami lost radar and radio contact with the plane on Monday, the US Coast Guard said.

It was east of the island of Eleuthera, an island which forms part of the Bahamas archipelago, which is inside the infamous Bermuda Triangle.

Four people from New York, including two children were onboard the plane.

American Entrepreneur Jennifer Blumin was aboard the missing plane

They had been flying from Puerto Rico to Titusville, along the northeastern coast of Florida, but never made it to their destination.

Those onboard have been identified as Nathan Ulrich and Jennifer Blumin, along with with her two sons aged three and four.

Their plane was at about 24,000feet when air traffic control lost contact.

Lt. Cmdr. Ryan Kelly, a Coast Guard spokesman, said: “There’s no indication of significant adverse weather at the time.”

The flight came from Puerto Rico and was due to land in Titusville yesterday

Coast Guard aircraft were searching along with Customs and Border Patrol and the Royal Bahamas Defense Force about 40 miles east of Eleuthera.

A Coast Guard cutter was dispatched to the area and is expected to arrive later today to arrive with the search.

The Bahamas are inside the Bermuda Triangle which has three vertices, in Miami, Florida, San Juan in Puerto Rico and in the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda.

It is estimated to cover an area ranging from 500,000 sq mi to 1,510,000 sq mi.

Several planes and ships have gone missing in the Bermuda Triangle, with differing explanations including paranormal.

However, most experts have put the disasters down to natural compass variations, the Gulf Stream, violent weather or human error.

Authorities say they have found a debris field 15 miles east of Eleuthera, Bahamas, during the search for survivors and the airplane.

The Debris that appeared to be from a plane and an oil slick was spotted in the search area east of Eleuthera but authorities were still trying to determine whether it came from the missing plane, said Lt Cmdr Ryan Kelly, a Coast Guard spokesman.

“We are still searching and that search is going to go on through the night and into tomorrow,” Mr Kelly said.

What exactly is the Bermuda Triangle?

The Bermuda Triangle is a mythical section of the Atlantic Ocean roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico where dozens of ships and airplanes have disappeared.

Unexplained circumstances surround some of these accidents, including one in which the pilots of a squadron of US Navy bombers became disoriented while flying over the area; the planes were never found.

Other boats and planes have seemingly vanished from the area

in good weather without even radioing distress messages.

One infamous tragedy occurred in March 1918 when

the USS Cyclops, a 542-foot-long Navy cargo ship with over 300 men onboard sank somewhere between Barbados and the Chesapeake Bay.

The Cyclops never sent out an SOS distress call despite being equipped to do so, and an extensive search found no wreckage.

Although many fanciful theories have been proposed regarding the Triangle, none prove that mysterious disappearances occur more frequently there than in other well-travelled sections of the ocean.