Something like "We're completely screwed.". Why would the operator say end? The message was repeated-STENDEC, then transmitted a third time. 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. The Stardust could not be raised and no wreckage could be found. That was of an anagram in an otherwise routine message included a dyxlexic A popular photographer who has amassed almost 30,000 followers on Instagram has admitted that his portraits are actually generated by artificial intelligence (AI). STENDEC and STAR DUST are coded similarly in both English and Morse code, causing some to theorize that Harmer sent one when he actually meant the other. Variations suggested that the crew might have been suffering from The Theory 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. radio operator in Santiago, where the plane was due to land. Recent Pages by Shiplord Kirel (Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie): This is the LGF Pages posting bookmarklet. I personally believe that the word was a misinterpretation of the code, but theories span far and wide on what the now notorious phrase stood for. STENDEC is the same Morse as SCTI AR if you don't consider any spacing between characters. [15] During the final portion of Star Dust's flight, heavy clouds would have blocked visibility of the ground. / -. Their curse was too much sky. These included suggestions that the radio operator, possibly suffering from hypoxia, had scrambled the word "DESCENT" (of which "STENDEC" is an anagram); that "STENDEC" may have been the initials of some obscure phrase or that the airport radio operator had misheard the Morse code transmission despite it reportedly having been repeated multiple times. In Mendoza, one startling picture published in the city's newspapers aroused particular curiosity. [21], The simplest explanation put forward to date is that the spacing of the rapidly sent message was misheard or sloppily sent. Adding to the mystery, two Avro 691 Lancastrian aircraft had crashed during the previous seventeen months. 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. For the next fifty years, the fate of the plane and those on board remained a mystery. Star Dust crashed into Mount Tupungato, killing all aboard and burying itself in snow and ice.[1][2]. But the budgetary toll of persistent underfunding is unmistakable. 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. Really neat, I hadn't heard of this before. The investigators concluded that the aircraft had not stalled. Hence we have: As only one young woman was on board, it was assumed to have been that of Iris Moreen Evans, a 26-year-old from the Rhondda valley. (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.). code. All rights reserved. What was radio operator Dennis Harmer, a highly trained wartime and civilian operator, trying to say? Ok, so that covers the theory of the mysterious phrase, but it doesnt answer the mystery of what happened to the plane. Vanished: The Plane That Disappeared I think the misinterpretation of the airport code is def the most plausible. Banksters, Peasants, and Kim Jong Un's Grandpa: A Parable for Our Times. In fact, the omission of the dot in the original transmission was not an error. French air safety investigators concluded in a 2012 report that the tragedy likely had been caused by an odd cascade of errors. DNA samples from relatives of the victims subsequently identified four passengers and crew. . Pieces of the puzzle started to fall into place in 1998, when mountain climbers in the Andes found the planes Rolls-Royce engine. Between 1998 and 2000, about ten per cent of the total expected wreckage emerged from the glacier, prompting several re-examinations of the accident. Operating as Flight CS-59, aka Star Dust, the four-engine aircraft was en route from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Santiago, Chile, with 11 people on board. Miracle in the Andes is an excellent book by the way. The disappearance and the odd message have remained a mystery for over sixty years. In the late 1990s, pieces of wreckage from the missing aircraft began to emerge from the glacial ice. This button leads to the main index of LGF Pages, our user-submitted articles. People all over the world had reported hundreds of flying saucer sightings during the last two weeks of June 1947. 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. Furthermore, whilst it is relatively easy 56K views 8 months ago #Disasters #History For over 50 years the fate of Flight CS-59 remained a mystery. Ball lightning. If spacing between letters is hard to distinguish, its clear to see how some characters can be accidentally mistaken for others, leading to incorrect words or phrases. At around 5:41pm, after transmitting routine communications to the plane as usual, the control tower at Los Cerrillos Airport in Santiago received this morse code message from Stardust: Perplexed by the final word in the telegram, the Chilean operator requested Stardusts radio officer, Dennis Harmer, to relay the message back to him, only to hear the same word, STENDEC, repeated loud and clearly twice in succession. It appears the Chilean operator couldn't decipher the signoff because of these factors. 5 STENDEC Another mystery involving a plane played out on August 2, 1947. All Rights Reserved Several body parts were also discovered, most of them intact due to being preserved in ice, and were later confirmed through DNA to be the passengers and crew of Stardust. The problem? Already a member? 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. On July 3, a rancher at Roswell, New Mexico, claimed to have found a UFO crash site with four alien bodies. . recognized signoff or 'end of message' signal was 'AR' (with no space / -. case G-AGWH) rather than the romantic names airlines gave them. Some things can be said with some degree of certainty. Mystery solved. They had been . But what was Jon Stewart asks when we will have enough guns -- watch to the end to watch him absolutely stick the landing. . And finally, there seems to be no reason to transmit the planes It was hard work at this elevation, and the Army had supplies for only thirty-six hours. For over fifty years the disappearance ranked as one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the aviation world, and a lively and inventive mythology grew up around the incident. (ETA LATE) [12], A report by an amateur radio operator who claimed to have received a faint SOS signal from Star Dust initially raised hopes that there might have been survivors,[11] but all subsequent attempts over the years to find the vanished aircraft failed. 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. After an exhausting search, no trace of the aircraft was found. / / -.-. [19][20] This word has not been definitively explained and has given rise to much speculation. "Santiago tower even navigator doesnt exactly know" Furthermore, aircraft were usually referred to by their registration, which in Stardusts case was G-AGWH, rather than the more romantic monikers the airline had given them. The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable even has an entry for STENDEC. Dozens of books and articles have examined the evidence, turned it over, twisted it, rearranged the letters, and drawn a blank. [citation needed], Mistakenly assuming their ground speed to be faster than it really was, the crew might have deduced that they had already safely crossed the Andes, and so commenced their descent to Santiago, whereas in fact they were still a considerable distance to the east-north-east and were approaching the cloud-enshrouded Tupungato Glacier at high speed. a new clue the truth is we will never know for sure what that final The crew probably did not panic, but they were concerned about the lack of visibility and landmarks. most of the mysteries surrounding Stardusts disappearance, It consisted of the single word "STENDEC". STENDEC/STAR DUST Theory You can post your own LGF Pages simply by registering a free account with us. [14] Human remains were also recovered, including three torsos, a foot in an ankle boot and a manicured hand. With the disappearance occurring less than a month after the now infamous Roswell incident, unexplained events such as a vanishing plane were easily connected to the possibility of alien interference. radio operator and/or receiver in Santiago, and playfulness on behalf The Stardust incident involved British South American Airways G-AGWH. They were so far off course they were trapped in the mountains struggling to survive for 72 days before they were rescued, and then only because of an incredible hike out of the mountains by two of the severely weakened survivors with no climbing gear or experience or any idea where they really were. . STENDEC Solved (Mystery message from 1947 Andes plane crash) By Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie Weird December 2010 Views: 31,837 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. otherwise it would not have been repeated three times. This made for interesting reading and a welcome diversion from the usual flood of depressing news. / -. An interesting new solution to the STENDEC mystery has been proposed, as advised by listener Anders. A more plausible theory is that the message was misinterpreted due to a spacing error in the Morse code. Moreover, operators at the time only referred to aircraft by their registration code, which in Star Dusts case was G-AGWH., Acronym Theory By 2002, the bodies of five of the eight British victims had been identified through DNA testing. The Stardust incident involved British South American Airways G-AGWH. As one of the pilots was dying he kept repeating, "We passed Curico," still bewildered as to how they had ended up in the peaks. Jos Avery has been posting his impressive photos Twitter continues to crumble bit by bit. 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. Seems very unlikely. 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. 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 trekkers had abandoned their pack mules lower down, and ascended with what they could carry. [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. It's reported as looking luminous and spherical, and can vary in diameter - from pea-sized to several metres long. Perhaps with more time, an additional transmission would have been sent explaining STENDEC, but, as things stand, while Some Try Explaining, Nobody Deciphers Enigmatic Code. While the fate of Star Dust had finally been solved, remaining in its wake was still the mystery of the crews final messageSTENDEC. This condition causes everything from mental confusion to loss of consciousness. One was a British diplomatic courier, a King's Messenger. It would have been Something like "We're completely screwed.". Their discovery revived interest in solving the mystery of what had happened to Flight CS59 and its 11 passengers and crew. [3][pageneeded], Star Dust carried six passengers and a crew of five on its final flight. Martin Colwell's theory on the mystery "STENDEC" - / . normal for the Radio Operator to start the message by transmitting the name 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. It is now believed that the crew became confused as to their exact location while flying at high altitudes through the (then poorly understood) jet stream. It makes me want to write out the Morse code and play with the spacing. Thanks SK. The first letter has to be V, and the rest just fall into place-ALP-a perfect match in Morse. message from Star Dust - "E.T.A. Whilst this possibility lends true to the first half of the word, the rest does not match up with this theory, and considering it was sent through and received the exact same three times over, its hard to imagine this error occurring on both ends. It was delivered to BSAA on 12 January 1946, was registered on 16 January as G-AGWH and given the individual aircraft name "Star Dust". The flight was conducted in zero-visibility conditions, so its unlikely the crew had any idea their plane was about to impact a mountainside. [8], Star Dust left Buenos Aires at 1:46 pm on 2 August. British Overseas Airways G-AGLX (the registration number) went down on March 23, 1946, and British Overseas Airways G-AGMF crashed on August 20. The fate of the British South American Airways flight, which disappeared in a snowstorm on August 2 1947 en route from Buenos Aires to Chile, was for decades surrounded by rumours of escaping Nazi spies and stolen gold. - / . that a radio operator would resort to convoluted messages based A popular photographer who has amassed almost 30,000 followers on Instagram has admitted that his portraits are actually generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Los Cerrillos airport Santiago was given was SCTI. The theory is the pilot mistakenly plotted their course as if they were leaving from a different airport, and it led to them crashing into a mountain. This would have explained the suddenness of its disappearance, and the fact that large pieces of wreckage had not been spotted during a wide air and land search. 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. The word simply has no meaning in any language, not even in Morse code. The Mystery of STENDEC - YouTube Avro Lancastrian (Public domain image)It was a story borne out all too often in the annals of aviation disasters. The Chilean radio operator at Santiago states that the SAR in other words 'EC' without the space. 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. Subscribe now for ad-free access!Register and sign in to a free LGF account before subscribing, and your ad-free access will be automatically enabled. The Theory There's still no explanation for the loss of Star Ariel, but so many things went wrong with Tudors on such a regular basis that its disappearance is hardly to be wondered at. unanswered. Before this message a series of entirely routine messages had been The mystery became an obsession of the innumerable "Bermuda Triangle" crackpots, who attribute almost all unexplained losses of ships and aircraft within a 500,000 square-mile area to paranormal activity. of the station they wish to contact. To put it simply, Cook chose the worst route possible in consideration of the conditions, which more than likely played a key role in the planes disappearance. Though it had as its General Manager a pilot of exceptional distinction -- Air Vice Marshal D.C.T. Discussion Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. 1 Dec. 2010, Volume 24, Number 12: 1-5. That would leave just "END", sandwiched between a signal attracting Perhaps STENDEC was an abbreviation for a much longer message, an acronym sent in a hurry due to being in a crunch for time. between the letters). Cook had been awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC). Imaginative souls speculated that aliens had snatched the large Lancastrian along with its passengers and crew. 1 "The Bloop" is an underwater mystery that took nearly 10 years to solve. What did the crew of BSAA Flight CS-59 mean when they sent and repeated the cryptic message STENDEC via Morse code seconds before crashing? selection of the ideas. On July 3, a rancher at Roswell, New Mexico, claimed to have found a UFO crash site with four alien bodies. The misunderstanding of their actual location reminds me of Uruguayan Flight 571, the subject of the book and movie Alive! one mystery still remains. The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable even has an entry for STENDEC. Dozens of books and articles have examined the evidence, turned it over, twisted it, rearranged the letters, and drawn a blank. Also, in the 1947 report, the oxygen system was noted as being fully charged, along with nine emergency bottles before leaving Buenos Aires. Another expose from ProPublica propublica.org Bonnie Martin kept the bleeding secret for as long as she could. Mysteries / -. Terms of Use/Privacy Policy. There are old pilots and there are bold pilots. 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. Iris Evans, who had previously served in the Women's Royal Naval Service ("Wrens") as a chief petty officer, was the flight attendant. Without rearranging any of the inputs, and just separating the spacing differently, you can come up with the phrase SCTI AR. / -.. / . The Theory The first letter has to be V, and the rest just fall into place-ALP-a perfect match in Morse. clear that STENDEC is not what the message was meant to say. simple message SCTI AR (or in layman's terms "Santiago, over"). . One of the two main landing wheels was still fully inflated after a half century! Could it be that Stardust were informing Los Cerrillos that they were on course for Rodelillo Airfield near Valparaiso instead, diverging from their original route? - - . You can post your own LGF Pages simply by registering a free account with us. made with the control tower at Santiago. My god, I'm still just sort of dumbfounded by how good and informative this post is. The radio operator, Dennis Harmer, also had a record of wartime as well as civilian service. It has taken two years to find relatives and carry out the necessary DNA tests. - / . 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. They had nothing to do with the crash, other than being present. 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. 1. Therefore a standard signoff would be sent as the UFO magazine. I thought this had been solved in a documentary I watched. Something about how the pilots were originally British Airways pilots and that Stendec actually meant something in British Airways terminology. Morse allows a maximum of four dots and dashes in any letter, narrowing the possibility for mistakes. INITIALS Improperly loaded, it crashed on landing, killing 80 of the people on board -- at the time, the worst air disaster in world history. Banksters, Peasants, and Kim Jong Un's Grandpa: A Parable for Our Times. Dear NOVA, I am a radio amateur who actively uses the Morse Code. same combination of dashes and dots as STENDEC, but shifting the spaces in But my maternal great . You're right! Was there a connection? begun to be used four months earlier in April 1947 and the four-letter code The experienced crew of the "Stardust" apparently realized the plane was off course in a northerly direction (it was found eighty kilometers off its flight path), or they purposely departed from the charted route to avoid bad weather. Then four years ago, several Argentinians climbing Mount Tupungato stumbled across part of a Rolls Royce engine, fragments of fuselage and strips of bleached clothing. Over the next 2 years more debris and remains will be found. Subscribe now for ad-free access!Register and sign in to a free LGF account before subscribing, and your ad-free access will be automatically enabled.
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