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The Great Lakes Triangle of North America North America’s Best Kept Secret, THE GREAT LAKES TRIANGLE. Continued from Page 3 During the winter of 1902, divers searched unsuccessfully for the wreckage of the Bannockburn. They were not surprised because they could not believe that she had sunk. She was last spotted by a passing ship. The Skipper had pointed her out to the First Mate, but when he turned his head to look at the proud vessel, the Bannockburn had disappeared. From time to time over the years she has been sighted still sailing the Great Lakes. flight 389 crashed. The weather was clear. The investigation of every piece of wreckage can And then there were the wrecks that flight was on Air Traffic Control radar. After an reconstruct the state of an aircraft as it existed at were only too painfully evident. But the investigation of the National Transportation the moment of impact. When the investigators phenomena that destroyed them vanished as Safety Board concluded that there was no finally conclude that the cause of a crash is *** suddenly as it came. explanation for this accident – the cause - *** Undetermined ***, it can be concluded that the The Leyfield and the James E Davidson Undetermined ***. mystery is indeed, very real. were proceeding through relatively calm waters No possible explanation, yet there is Not just civilian aircraft but military when a single gigantic wave struck them another involving aircraft with the very same aircraft have fell victim to mysterious forces down... a gigantic wave of boiling water rising elements...an altimeter charting a path to certain The Great Lakes Triangle. In 1956, the CF-100 for one tumultuous moment. death. was the back bone of the Royal Canadian Air Meteorologists call them a Seechee A General Motors Saber aircraft on Force and was a reliable jet fighter checked out Wave, but cannot explain them. They were first approach to Pontiac, Michigan was cleared by with military precision every time it left the reported on the Great Lakes in 1872. Contrary Air Traffic Control at the two mile marker and ground and flown by young men with the razor to popular belief, they are not caused by the the Saber started its descent and crashed into the sharp reflexes RCAF fighter pilots. wind. ground. At no time was there anything wrong On May 15, 1956, a CF-100 took off The bizarre events of the lakes go with the aircraft that had been reported to the over the Great Lakes. Only seconds after its last beyond the first records of the Whiteman. The ground stations by the pilot. The aircraft was routine transmission, it disappeared of radar. It so called Seechee Wave is part of a legend of the under the complete control of the pilot has been subsequently learned that the pilot had Chippewa Indians of Lake Superior. They still throughout the flight. dropped 33,000 feet to his death without speak of a gigantic sturgeon...a monster fish that Here, there is miraculously a survivor. uttering a single word of distress. In many cases with the flack of his tail was said to destroy the He was the co-pilot that night. A man with vast the circumstances are so mysterious as to give mightiest vessel. experience and a spotless record, Howard rise to the theories that range from conservative Indian legend is connected to another Herps. Herp claims that to the best of his scientific evaluations to the possibility of extraordinary case history. The ship was called recollection, Air Traffic Control told him that intervention by the forces of inner and outer the Waubuno, an Algonquin name for “Black they were cleared to 2,700 feet, clear for space. Magician.” On November 20, 1879, a doctor’s approach, and they were to contact Pontiac There appears to be, for example, a wife claimed that she had a vision of the ships Tower at the outer marker. 2,700 feet is the particular area of such heavy devastation as to destruction. It was assumed that she was altitude for the procedure turn. They descended be beyond the possibility of coincident. It is a hysterical. The wreckage was found in the 300 feet to 2,700 feet with Herpes checking the line that extends, curiously enough, into the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron, battered by some altimeter. Everything was going smoothly. They Bermuda Triangle. It is called the Agonic Line. tremendous force but not a single body was started their final checklist, and when they were The Agonic Line, or the line of 0 magnetic discovered. It happened on November 22, 1879. done, Herps look up and saw treetops. When variation is the line along which the magnetic Let’s look at a more recent case. United Airline Herps was asked why they descended below the north and true north are precisely the same flight 389, a Boeing 727, a flight from New minimum that night, he said he could not direction. Now, how this would be related to York to Chicago – the date, August 16, 1965. explain it. Why did he fly the Saber liner into transportation accidents or how it could cause The facts are solid. The Captains voice was the ground that night? Herps claims that he has such a tragedy has never been explained, but the recorded by Air Traffic Control. The flight was no knowledge or answer to account for this fact remains that a number of such disasters recorded and followed on highly sophisticated accident. Again, the NTSB finding *** have been on or near this line. For example, the NORAD equipment. There was no mechanical Undetermined ***. disappearance of Northwest Airlines Flight malfunction. Three highly qualified pilots were Howard Herps did not have the answers. 2501, civilian aircraft N212AD and the on the flight deck. They could see Chicago in Neither did the investigators who poured over implausible last actions of the Edmund the distance. The aircraft descended perfectly to the wreckage. To understand how baffling this Fitzgerald. 6,000 feet and was instructed to level out is, one must appreciate how meticulous these In searching for explanations, according to regular ATC procedure. The investigators are and the elaborate technology researchers and investigators have meticulously aircraft did not level out. It continued to descent available at their disposal. For example, they examined 86 air disasters and 45 shipping for three minutes until it flew right into Lake can determine six months after an accident, disappearances and in many cases the only Michigan. whether or not a tiny indicator light was lit on possible explanation seem to be outside the Up until one minute before all 30 impact. Electron microscopes tell the realm of conventional wisdom. passengers and crew of Flight 389 crashed, the investigators whether there are scratches on a The Great Lakes Triangle is truly one of pilot was in constant contact with O’Hare Air tiny metal part or if there are scratches on the North America’s best kept secrets. Traffic Control Arrival, confirming altimeter scratches, which might indicate a different sort readings. Fifteen miles out from the airport, of structural failure. A highly scientific COMING SOON - The ‘X’ Zone on SimulTV