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Plane Disappears In The Bermuda Triangle At 24,000 Feet

Plane Disappears In The Bermuda Triangle At 24,000 Feet

At least 1,000 lives have been lost in the area in the last 100 years.

James Dawson

James Dawson

The US Coast Guard has been dispatched to the Bahamas in the search for a small plane with four people - including two children - on board.

The area being searched is part of the infamous Bermuda Triangle, in which at least 1,000 lives have been lost in the last 100 years.

On average, four planes and 20 ships reportedly go missing in the area every year.

Pilot Nathan Ulrich and Jennifer Blumin, who is the Founder and CEO of event management firm, Skylight Group, along with her four-year-old and 10-year-old sons, have been identified as the people onboard the plane.

Nathan Ulrich. Credit: Facebook

The airplane departed Borinquen, Puerto Rico, at approximately 11am on Monday (May 15) and never arrived at its destination of Titusville, Florida, reports the Mail.

The US Coast Guard says the twin-engine MU-2B was 37 miles the island of Eleuthera when air traffic control in Miami lost radar and radio contact with the plane on Monday.

The plane was at about 24,000 feet and going at a speed of 300 knots when contact was lost.

"There's no indication of significant adverse weather at the time," said Lt Cmdr Ryan Kelly, a Coast Guard spokesman.

The Coast Guard searched between Florida and the Bahamas for the plane yesterday but did not find it.

Credit: PA Images

Coast Guard aircraft are currently searching along with Customs and Border Patrol and the Royal Bahamas Defense Force for evidence of a crash.

Back in March, we reported how scientists may have found out the reason behind the disappearance of ships in the Bermuda Triangle.

Giant underwater craters up to half a mile wide and 150ft deep at the bottom of Barents Sea have been discovered.

They're believed to have been caused by methane build-ups off the coast of Norway. Scientists say that the methane would have leaked from natural gas deposits and created cavities which finally give way and burst.

The area known as the Bermuda Triangle, stretches from the British Overseas Territory in the North Atlantic Ocean to the Florida coast, to Puerto Rico.

The deputy head of the Trofimuk Institue, scientist Igor Yeltsov, said last year: "There is a version that the Bermuda Triangle is a consequence of gas hydrates reactions.

"They start to actively decompose with methane ice turning into gas. It happens in an avalanche-like way, like a nuclear reaction, producing huge amounts of gas.

"That makes the ocean heat up and ships sink in its waters mixed with a huge proportion of gas."

Source: Daily Mail

Featured Image Credit: PA Images

Topics: missing