Question

At 2 pm on 5 December 1945, five US bombers took off from Fort Lauderdale in the USA for a training flight

in perfect weather. Shortly afterwards, the pilots radioed that their flight instruments were malfunctioning.

Two hours after take-off, all contact with the planes was lost. A reconnaissance plane was immediately

dispatched to search for the missing planes. Within 20 minutes, radio contact with it had also been lost. No

trace of any of the planes was ever found. In all, six planes and 27 men had vanished into the air.

The disappearance of the six planes was far from being the first mysterious incident in the area: for years,

navigational problems and strange magnetic forces had been reported. The disappearance was not even

the greatest disaster within the triangle. The Cyclops, a 19,000- ton US ship, was sailing from Barbados to

Norfolk, Virginia. In March 1918, it vanished with its crew of 309 from the surface of the ocean without

making a distress call and without the slightest wreckage ever being found.

The losses of boats and planes in that area defy explanation. The disasters are the origin of a new phrase in

the English language – the Bermuda Triangle. The Bermuda Triangle has been called the Devil’s Triangle, the

Triangle of Death and the Graveyard of the Atlantic. It has swallowed upto 140 ships and planes and more

than 1,000 people. Today, many airmen and sailors are still afraid of that area of the Atlantic Ocean.





Answer the following questions.

(a)-. Where was Fort Lauderdale located?

(b). What happened on 5 December 1945?

(c). What happened in March 1918?

(d). What are the different names given to the Bermuda Triangle?

(e). Find words from the passage which mean

i. investigation

ii. remains​

Answer 1

Answer:

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. it's....................

Answer 2

I ) in USA

2)five us bombers took off from fort...

3)Norfolk and vergina vanished...with its crew of 309 ..