5 Planes Vanished And Were Never Found - Flight 19

On 5 December 1945, five US Navy torpedo bombers took off from Florida on a routine training flight. Fourteen men. Clear weather. None of them ever came back, and neither did the seaplane sent to find them. In this video we follow what actually happened to Flight 19: the last radio transmissions, why the flight leader believed his compasses had failed, how the search unfolded, and what investigators concluded. Thirteen more men died in the rescue attempt. No wreckage from Flight 19 has ever been positively identified. Chapters: 0:00 A routine training flight 0:30 The compasses fail 1:00 The last radio call 1:30 The rescue plane that also vanished Subscribe for more unsolved history, explained fast.