Five of the eight British victims have been identified. Almost a year after the loss of Star Tiger, her sister aircraft, Star Ariel, also vanished in good weather while on a flight from Bermuda to Jamaica. / - /. - . [16] If the airliner, which had to cross the Andes mountain range at 24,000 feet (7,300m), had entered the jet-stream zonewhich in this area normally blows from the west and south-west, resulting in the aircraft encountering a headwindthis would have significantly decreased the aircraft's ground speed. If so, according to their timings, they had already passed Los Cerrillos, where they could have safely landed as intended, so this doesnt seem to make much sense either. The accident aircraft, an Avro 691 Lancastrian 3, was built as constructor's number 1280 for the Argentine Ministry of Supply to carry thirteen passengers, and first flew on 27 November 1945. Star Dust, registration G-AGWH, an Avro 691 Lancastrian 3, departed Buenos Aires for Santiago at 13.46 on 2 August 1947. Ball lightning. With that in mind, and the fact that the operator himself mentioned that Harmer sent the message extremely quickly, its likely that this was the message after all. Then nothing. Pages Sign In Register Forgot password? Morse code experts we have consulted believe that it is highly unlikely French air safety investigators concluded in a 2012 report that the tragedy likely had been caused by an odd cascade of errors. Well that was fascinating and, while kinda sad I'm not going to pretend is not kinda funny hearing you explain all the ways that the Tudor sucked shit. When flying at high altitudes, oxygen molecules are harder to inhale, and if a plane is not pressurized, it can lead to hypoxia, a condition which can impair or even completely destroy your ability to function. [11] The head of BSAA, Air Vice Marshal Don Bennett, personally directed an unsuccessful five-day search. made with the control tower at Santiago. . On July 3, a rancher at Roswell, New Mexico, claimed to have found a UFO crash site with four alien bodies. ETA LATE sounds like a reasonable message a plane would communicate to a control tower, although in the context of the whole sentence, it contradicts the first part completely, as they were only four minutes away from their destination. Los Cerrillos airport Santiago was given was SCTI. With morse code being a binary combination of dots and dashes, something as simple as one or two incorrect inputs can make a drastic difference to how a word is interpreted. up sign. The Lancastrian was an unpressurized aircraft, meaning that the crew and passengers could have been subject to hypoxia had their oxygen system failed, and so some suggest that this may have led to Harmer sending parts of his final message in a confused state. "STENDEC" in Morse code is: / - / . Adding to the mystery, two Avro 691 Lancastrian aircraft had crashed during the previous seventeen months. The STENDEC Puzzle Ever since BSAA Avro Lancastrian Star Dust vanished on a flight from Buenos Aires to Santiago, the ending of its final transmission - STENDEC - has continued to puzzle experts and amateurs alike. The final apparently unintelligible word "STENDEC" has been a source Their curse was too much sky. But there are no old, bold pilots. Technology Inc. recognized signoff or 'end of message' signal was 'AR' (with no space
Imagine your last communication with someone being the equivalent of covfefe and it turning into a mystery that people puzzle over for decades, I still have no clue what covfefe means and suspect people will puzzle over it for decades, British South American Airways (BSAA), the operator of the doomed aircraft, was a particularly unfortunate air carrier. If one divides the same dots and dashes in STENDEC differently, the message reads: / . And similarly why would an operator say ETA LATE when he had only I couldnt find a source for this, but according to theorists online, this was a known phrase for allied fighter pilots in WWII for if their plane was about to crash land. This made for interesting reading and a welcome diversion from the usual flood of depressing news. Four letter ICAO codes for airports had
A more plausible theory is that the message was misinterpreted due to a spacing error in the Morse code. Plane and Pilot builds on more than 50 years of serving pilots and owners of aircraft with the goal of empowering our readers to improve their knowledge and enthusiasm for aviation. (0), By Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie. The Army unit also discovered that the wheels on the plane were in an upward position, so the crew had not attempted an emergency landing. They hadn't passed Curico. Her sisters, boyfriend and sons knew nothing of her illness until suddenly, during a family gathering in October 2018 at a diner in Reading The Online Photographer lead me to this article. Their curse was too much sky. STENDEC/STAR DUST Theory They may be similar, but it is still hard to imagine an experienced An expedition, supported by local Argentinian soldiers, was organised to search the mountain. It's possible that the desire to descend as soon as possible to a level at which the passengers could breathe normally may have factored into Star Dust's premature departure from a safe crossing altitude. Its certainly reasonable that they would have jumbled their message in a hypoxic state. Explanations based in Morse code The Message That Said STENDEC "ETA Santiago 17:45 hrs. Whilst it's certainly a bizarre coincidence, especially given the circumstances, the theory goes that Harmer was trying to inform the control tower that the plane was going down. unanswered. Due to the poor visibility caused by the storm, its possible that the crew were unaware that their plane was on course to collide with the mountainside, and unknowingly plummeted the aircraft into the summit before eventually succumbing to the elements. The Chilean operator did mention how Harmers messages came through unusually fast, so there is every chance that some letters were incorrectly spaced and caused confusion to the control tower. Some politicians have irresponsibly suggested that every new IRS employee will be a gun-toting enforcement agent. Whilst its true that the Lancastrian was unpressurised, the crew Solve the Mystery of STENDEC Readers' Theories Set #1 Posted January 31, 2001 next set. One of the two main landing wheels was still fully inflated after a half century! Imaginative souls speculated that aliens had snatched the large Lancastrian along with its passengers and crew. This is a personal family mystery that got solved a few years ago, so nothing exciting that would have gotten media attention, haha. most of the mysteries surrounding Stardusts disappearance, one mystery still remains. Additionally, the condition of the wheels proved that the undercarriage was still retracted, suggesting controlled flight into terrain rather than an attempted emergency landing. British . It was hard work at this elevation, and the Army had supplies for only thirty-six hours. The Stardust could not be raised and no wreckage could be found. Terms of Use/Privacy Policy. by aliens. Furthermore, why would they put ATTENTION at the end of the transmission instead of the beginning? You're right! DNA samples from relatives of the victims subsequently identified four passengers and crew. It wasnt until 1998 that a group of Argentine mountaineers climbing Mount Tupungato, approximately 50 miles east of Santiago, stumbled upon wreckage from the crash. Theories include everything from sabotage to aliens. Another explanation, advanced at the time of the disappearance, Recent Pages by Shiplord Kirel (Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie): This is the LGF Pages posting bookmarklet. They were in a remarkable state of preservation; freeze-dried by icy winds, the remains had not suffered bacteriological decay. An aircraft finds itself off-course and in .. ATLANTA (AP) The woman flying out of Philadelphias airport last year remembered to pack snacks, prescription medicine and a cellphone in her handbag. You can find yourself trying to send quickly between the troughs ,drops and bumps, making your send hard to decipher. So apparently the mystery hasn't been solved, because I don't see anything in the article suggesting anyone understands what Stendec meant. The crew probably did not panic, but they were concerned about the lack of visibility and landmarks. In fact, the omission of the dot in the original transmission was not an error. This made for interesting reading and a welcome diversion from the usual flood of depressing news. / . It makes me want to write out the Morse code and play with the spacing. - / . An extensive search operation failed to locate the wreckage, despite covering the area of the crash site. Things like air turbulance (in my case, rough seas) also affect that rythm. makes clear, modern science has answered most of the questions surrounding the 1947 crash of the civilian aircraft Stardust in the Andes east of Santiago, Chile. [10], The staff of the BBC television series Horizonwhich presented an episode in 2000 on the Star Dust disappearancereceived hundreds of messages from viewers proposing explanations of "STENDEC". Back to 'Vanished: The Plane That Disappeared' programme page. That part of the puzzle wouldnt be solved until half a century later. INITIALS A few years later, more debris was found on the mountain, suggesting that the plane had made a head-on impact with the ground due to the close proximity and condition of the wreckage. tower aircraft now descending entering cloud") it as an acronym or an abreviation yields little fruit. Any explanation for STENDEC depends on an understanding of Morse For the next fifty years, the fate of the plane and those on board remained a mystery. Neither men were taken to the jail. /- (ST) But the budgetary toll of persistent underfunding is unmistakable. [3][pageneeded], Star Dust carried six passengers and a crew of five on its final flight. /-.-. Many people wrote pointing out that STENDEC is an anagram of descent. The misunderstanding of their actual location reminds me of Uruguayan Flight 571, the subject of the book and movie Alive! / -.. / . Perhaps the most plausible explanations we have heard are firmly If they wanted to convey distress, they would have sent an SOS., Misinterpretation Theory In fact, this conspiracy ran for so long that even a Spanish magazine published in the 1970s, which was dedicated to UFOs and the paranormal, named itself after the now infamous morse code. Investigators concluded that the crew, flying in a snowstorm against a powerful jet stream, must have become confused about their location and believed they were closer to their destination then they actually were, with the crash being the result of a controlled descent into terrain. Similarly, another Morse expert has pointed out that to attract Another expose from ProPublica propublica.org Bonnie Martin kept the bleeding secret for as long as she could. [8], Star Dust left Buenos Aires at 1:46 pm on 2 August. A common example of this would be SOS, which is the internationally recognised distress signal in morse code to call for help. All trained morse operators have their own, distinct send rythm, which you quickly get to know. If not V, then the first letters might have been EIN, or IAR, but these combinations lead nowhere. This is fascinating. It has to be this one in my opinion. They included Palestinian, Swiss, German and British passengers, a diplomatic courier and the crew: the pilot Reginald Cooke, 44; first officer Norman Hilton Cooke, 39; radiotelegraph operator Dennis Harmer, 27; second officer Donald Checklin, 27; and Iris Evans. No trace of the missing Lancastrian aircraft, named Star Dust, could be found. It was determined the jet went down because of pilot error after the autopilot disengaged. With a diplomat on board, the press freely speculated that a bomb had exploded in mid-flight. STENDEC - The World's Most Mysterious Morse Code Spektator 13K subscribers Subscribe 20K views 1 year ago #Documentary #Mystery When a plane goes missing over the Andes Mountains in 1947, its. 1. Cook had been awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC). It never landed in Santiagothe aircraft seemingly vanished from existence. Discussion . Improperly loaded, it crashed on landing, killing 80 of the people on board -- at the time, the worst air disaster in world history. Christie could have made something of this, but the passengers were quite unwilling and unwitting victims. The site had been difficult to reach. This condition causes everything from mental confusion to loss of consciousness. On board the British South American Airways flight were five crew members and six passengers, including the Captain, Commander Reginald J. Cook, an experienced and former RAF pilot during World War II. And why not . / -.. / . A Spanish magazine about UFOs appropriated STENDEK as its title, and at least one U.S. comic book illustrated the disappearance of the Stardust, pondering the meaning of STENDEC for its fascinated readers. (STENDEC) One final mystery lay in the last message sent out by the Star Dust. A popular one is that STENDEC is an anagram of DESCENT and the letters were re-arranged due to Harmer suffering from the effects of hypoxia. "Santiago tower message now descending entering cloud" (or "Santiago When he asked for clarification, the crew repeated it two more times, STENDEC. / . Lancasters had four Rolls Royce Merlin engines, the front-line combat engine that powered the latest Spitfire and Mustang fighters. The investigators concluded that the aircraft had not stalled. of mystery, confusion and intrigue ever since. out very fast. aircraft were usually referred to by their registration (in Stardusts The first letter has to be V, and the rest just fall into place-ALP-a perfect match in Morse. (These individuals ignore the fact that almost any other triangle of a similar size, drawn anywhere else in the North Atlantic, would yield a similar if not greater number of disappearances.). The letter was not C. Nor were the first two letters of this strange message ST: / . Was there a connection? in other words 'EC' without the space. / - / . the operator use a calling up sign in the middle of his message? this correspondent conceded that "the last bit may be a bit muddled"). [17] One of the pilots recalled that "we had all been warned not to enter cloud over the mountains as the turbulence and icing posed too great a threat. Seems very unlikely. When Harmer and his crew sent their final message to Los Cerrillos, they had no idea that they were seconds away from a fatal impact. / -.. / . - / . Though it had as its General Manager a pilot of exceptional distinction -- Air Vice Marshal D.C.T. - /. Not understanding the word "STENDEC" he queried it Discussion Even parts of the plane had been frozen in time, with one of its wheels still fully inflated after spending half a century lost on the glacier. In either case, they attempted to contact what they thought was the nearest airport, Valparaiso, not Santiago. Five months after the episode described by OP, one of BSAA's Avro Tudor IV aircraft, Star Tiger, with 31 persons on board, vanished on a flight from Lisbon to Bermuda with an intermediate fuel stop in the Azores. All Rights Reserved / - / . The first letter has to be V, and the rest just fall into place-ALP-a perfect match in Morse. Below we include a (0), By Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie. radio operator and/or receiver in Santiago, and playfulness on behalf 10 'Unsolved' Mysteries That Have Been Solved. (STENDEC) Dennis Harmer at 17:41 on 2nd August 1947. [6], A recovered propeller showed that the engine had been running at near-cruising speed at the time of the impact. The dots and dash formed one letter, V: / . For years it was thought to have been mistyped but it is now thought to be a second world war morse code acronym for: "Severe Turbulence Encountered, Now Descending, Emergency Crash-landing". The actual Morse code which the Chilean Operator believed she received was: S T E N D E C Their discovery revived. However, while the aircraft was unpressurized, its crew had been supplied with oxygen. With a diplomat on board, the press freely speculated that a bomb had exploded in mid-flight. On 2 August 1947, Star Dust, a British South American Airways (BSAA) Avro Lancastrian airliner on a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Santiago, Chile, crashed into Mount Tupungato in the Argentine Andes. It was also, as OP says, unpressurized, so that passengers as well as crew had to breathe supplemental oxygen through masks while above 15,000 feet. Already a member? USGS. of the above, please follow the link to Martin Colwell's website here -
Its fate became one of the most puzzling aviation mysteries of its time. Checklin never married and his immediate family is now dead, so she and her brothers must decide whether to bring the body back to Britain. Ball lightning is a potentially dangerous atmospheric electrical phenomenon. The public, still reeling from the now-famous flying saucer incident in Roswell, New Mexico, a few weeks earlier, went wild with theories, speculating everything from sabotage to alien abduction. much harder in Morse code.-.. / . Tragically, that wasn't the last disaster in which Bennett and the Tudor were involved. An interesting new solution to the STENDEC mystery has been proposed, as advised by listener Anders. which is identical - although with different spacings - to EC. same combination of dashes and dots as STENDEC, but shifting the spaces in
Investigators concluded that the crew, flying in a snowstorm against a powerful jet stream, had become confused about their location and believed they were closer to Santiago than they actually were. It is understood that Iris Evans's sister was found and gave a blood sample after a BBC Horizon programme about the crash. / -.-. It was the manicured hand of a young woman lying among the ice and rocks. This button leads to the main index of LGF Pages, our user-submitted articles. STENDEC. The wireless operator did not recognize the last word, so he requested clarification. [10] The Chilean Air Force radio operator at Santiago airport described this transmission as coming in "loud and clear" but very fast; as he did not recognise the last word, he requested clarification and heard "STENDEC" repeated twice in succession before contact with the aircraft was lost. close to an understanding of the message. The Horizon staff concluded that, with the possible exception of some misunderstanding based on Morse code, none of these proposed solutions was plausible. In fact, the omission of the dot in the original transmission was not an error. operator to scramble the message. Charles Willoughby, Cooked Intel, and the Far Right. The word the sign off for a Morse code message is AR. . STENDEC Solved (Mystery message from 1947 Andes plane crash) - LGF Pages ntskeptics.org The "STENDEC mystery," referring to the cryptic message sent by a Lancastrian airliner before it vanished in the Andes, is a staple of the UFO culture. Blast From the Past: The North Texas Skeptic, May 1999, Republican Senator Claims 'The Left' Will Start a Civil War Unless Federal Highway System Abolished, A Christian Health Nonprofit Saddled Thousands With Debt as It Built a Family Empire Including a Pot Farm, a Bank and an Airline, Popular Instagram Photographer Revealed as AI Fraud, Cutting IRS Funding Is a Gift to Americas Wealthiest Tax Evaders, Record 6,542 Guns Intercepted at US Airport Security in 22, Interview With Oklahoma State Sen. Nathan Dahm, US: Russia Has Committed Crimes Against Humanity in Ukraine, Joel Cummins Umphreys McGee Keyboard Rig - January 2023 [VIDEO], Oklahoma Judge Transfers Lesbian Moms Parental Rights to Her Sons Sperm Donor. [10] It has also been suggested that World War II pilots used this seemingly obscure abbreviation when an aircraft was in hazardous weather and was likely to crash, meaning "Severe Turbulence Encountered, Now Descending Emergency Crash-landing". Don Bennett, its manager, had already been fired by then, partly as a result of his insistence to all and sundry that Star Tiger was a victim of sabotage and that the British Government, for unknown but nefarious reasons of its own, was covering up the crime. It is thought that the plane may have caused an avalanche upon impact, resulting in the snowy burial of the aircraft, concealing it from searchers whilst at the same time preserving it for its eventual discovery years later. Mysteries Of Flight: The Curious Case Of Pan Am Flight 914, Fond Farewell to a Titan: The Antonov An-225, Plane & Pilot Survey: Pilots and Politics, Accident Brief: Piper PA28R Crash In Georgia. The Theory STENDEC Solved (Mystery message from 1947 Andes plane crash) By Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie Weird December 2010 Views: 31,881 Tweet ntskeptics.org The "STENDEC mystery," referring to the cryptic message sent by a Lancastrian airliner before it vanished in the Andes, is a staple of the UFO culture. A Spanish magazine about UFOs appropriated STENDEK as its title, and at least one U.S. comic book illustrated the disappearance of the Stardust, pondering the meaning of STENDEC for its fascinated readers.
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