begun to be used four months earlier in April 1947 and the four-letter code Discussion And similarly why would an operator say ETA LATE when he had only On this ill-fated day, a British South American Airways airliner called Star Dust carrying six passengers and five crew members crashed during its journey from Buenos Aires to Santiago. [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". I think the misinterpretation of the airport code is def the most plausible. by aliens. 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. the disappearance of the plane - coupled with its final strange unanswered. 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. otherwise it would not have been repeated three times. STENDEC Solved (Mystery message from 1947 Andes plane crash) By Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie. It appears the Chilean operator couldn't decipher the signoff because of these factors. [6], A recovered propeller showed that the engine had been running at near-cruising speed at the time of the impact. 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. The Avro Lancastrian began its life as a British Lancaster bomber in World War II. between the letters). But in the absence of Since the programme transmitted we have received literally hundreds Los Cerrillos airport Santiago was given was SCTI. Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images. That is the official ruling of an Oklahoma court. / - / . At 17.41 a Chilean Air Force Morse operator in Santiago picked up a message: ETA [estimated time of arrival] Santiago 17.45 hrs. /-.-. 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. Once again, no distress signal was received. The message was repeated-STENDEC, then transmitted a third time. Tragically, that wasn't the last disaster in which Bennett and the Tudor were involved. 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. on nothing further was heard from the aircraft and no contact was - - . INITIALS Why would the operator say end? - /. Sometimes These Enigmas Never Decipher. The searchers discovered one propeller, its tips scarred and bent backward, indicating that the prop had been revolving when the Lancastrian plowed into the Tupungato glacier. Why would One of the two main landing wheels was still fully inflated after a half century! A solution to the word "STENDEC" has not been found. There are old pilots and there are bold pilots. Additionally, the condition of the wheels proved that the undercarriage was still retracted, suggesting controlled flight into terrain rather than an attempted emergency landing. clear that STENDEC is not what the message was meant to say. The letter was not C. Nor were the first two letters of this strange message ST: / . In 1997, an ultra-low frequency, weird but loud noise . 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. "Santiago tower even navigator doesnt exactly know" The disappearance and the odd message have remained a mystery for over sixty years. use SOS, the internationally accepted distress signal? I remember him in his RAF uniform during the war. / - /. Again, this is the same as ST, only with different spacing.- (V) The Horizon staff concluded that, with the possible exception of some misunderstanding based on Morse code, none of these proposed solutions was plausible. problem, here is a website which translates English into Morse code. The fate of the aircraft and its occupants remained unknown for over fifty years, giving rise to various conspiracy theories about its disappearance. Ok, so that covers the theory of the mysterious phrase, but it doesnt answer the mystery of what happened to the plane. / . State Sen. Nathan Dahm (R-OK) has penned several bills loosening gun restrictions, including the nation's first anti-red flag MUNICH (AP) The United States has determined that Russia has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine, Vice President Kamala Harris said Saturday, insisting that justice must be served to the perpetrators. course. I thought this had been solved in a documentary I watched. radio operator and/or receiver in Santiago, and playfulness on behalf Its designer, Roy Chadwick, died in one when a prototype crashed during a test flight in 1947. Another explanation, advanced at the time of the disappearance, 20 passengers and crew were lost. And finally, there seems to be no reason to transmit the planes That's also how Carole Lombard died. Some things can be said with some degree of certainty. Recent Pages by Shiplord Kirel (Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie): This is the LGF Pages posting bookmarklet. Whilst many accepted that the fate of Stardust and its crew had been settled, the absence of a wreckage, along with the mysterious circumstances surrounding its final message, lead to widespread speculation, with theories spanning from sabotage to extraterrestrial in nature. Banksters, Peasants, and Kim Jong Un's Grandpa: A Parable for Our Times. This theory is an easy one to break apart. Didn't the test Tudor flight crash because the aileron controls had been reversed (e.g trying to roll right rolled the aircraft left) or am I thinking of a different British test aircraft crash. When you try to send too quickly that rythm disappears. Yet one mystery remains:. One final mystery lay in the last message sent out by the Star Dust. The Chilean radio operator at Santiago states that the The full. ATLANTA (AP) The woman flying out of Philadelphias airport last year remembered to pack snacks, prescription medicine and a cellphone in her handbag. 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? _.. . 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. simple message SCTI AR (or in layman's terms "Santiago, over"). message - that Stardust became entwined in UFO theories. Similarly, another Morse expert has pointed out that to attract / -.-. Solve the Mystery of STENDEC Readers' Theories Set #1 Posted January 31, 2001 next set. It seems The With a diplomat on board, the press freely speculated that a bomb had exploded in mid-flight. Star Dust, registration G-AGWH, an Avro 691 Lancastrian 3, departed Buenos Aires for Santiago at 13.46 on 2 August 1947. Understanding STENDEC has been the quest for many experienced and avid radio operators, with online forums dedicated to deciphering what Dennis Harmer was trying to say. [9] This leg of the flight was apparently uneventful until the radio operator (Harmer) sent a routine message in Morse code to the airport in Santiago at 5:41 pm, announcing an expected arrival of 5:45 pm. Just before the plane disappeared, it 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. The Chilean operator remarks that Harmer sends the final transmission very quickly.A rule of morse operation is that you don't send faster than the receiving operator can decipher.It appears Harmer did send too quickly, even while repeating. USGS. It would have been out, but seems unlikely. attention it is common to use the dots and dash for V as a calling A Los Cerrillos airport Santiago was given was SCTI. - / . . The last word in Star Dust's final Morse code transmission to Santiago airport, "STENDEC", was received by the airport control tower four minutes before its planned landing and repeated twice; it has never been satisfactorily explained. The letter was not C. Nor were the first two letters of this strange message ST: / . The investigators concluded that the aircraft had not stalled. 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. Various people came up with intriguing, imaginative and sometimes The An expedition, supported by local Argentinian soldiers, was organised to search the mountain. 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. were all supplied with oxygen. . British Overseas Airways G-AGLX (the registration number) went down on March 23, 1946, and British Overseas Airways G-AGMF crashed on August 20. it as an acronym or an abreviation yields little fruit. Pieces of the puzzle started to fall into place in 1998, when mountain climbers in the Andes found the planes Rolls-Royce engine. [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. Seems very unlikely. Explanations based in Morse code Their discovery revived. 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. 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. Each letter in morse code consists of a number of unique dots and dashes, so to scramble a word like descent in such a way is highly unlikely, especially three times in succession. They were flying across the Andes from east to west the pilots thought they were much further west than they were and turned north straight into the mountains and collided with a peak. Believers of this theory claim it stood for something like, Stardust tank empty, no diesel, expected crash, or, Santiago tower, emergency, now descending, entering cloud. Experts on Morse code are quick to call hogwash on this theory, however, saying that the crew would have never cryptically abbreviated an important message. In 1950, one of these, Star Girl, had no fewer than 83 passengers and crew crammed into it on a charter flight from Dublin to Llandow, a low-cost airport near Cardiff in Wales. The Lancastrian's vanishing act happened at a time of considerable political turmoil in South America. 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. The misunderstanding of their actual location reminds me of Uruguayan Flight 571, the subject of the book and movie Alive! of mystery, confusion and intrigue ever since. 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. More debris is expected to emerge in future, not only as a result of normal glacial motion, but also as the glacier melts. It has therefore been suggested that, in the absence of visual sightings of the ground due to the clouds, a navigational error could have been made as the aircraft flew through the jet streama phenomenon not well understood in 1947, in which high-altitude winds can blow at high speed in directions different from those of winds observed at ground level. begun to be used four months earlier in April 1947 and the four-letter code As mentioned previously, the standard morse code for a distress signal is SOS, which is much easier and quicker to communicate than STENDEC. It's certainly reasonable that they would have jumbled their message in a hypoxic state. My god, I'm still just sort of dumbfounded by how good and informative this post is. / -.. / . 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. STENDEC. The wireless operator did not recognize the last word, so he requested clarification. If not V, then the first letters might have been EIN, or IAR, but these combinations lead nowhere. / -.-. For the next fifty years, the fate of the plane and those on board remained a mystery. Become a member and get exclusive access to articles, contests and more! Plane and Pilot expands upon the vast base of knowledge and experience from aviations most reputable influencers to inspire, educate, entertain and inform. Back to 'Vanished: The Plane That Disappeared' programme page. Whilst its true that the Lancastrian was unpressurised, the crew STENDEC was corrupted into Stendek and became the name of a Spanish 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. . State Sen. Nathan Dahm (R-OK) has penned several bills loosening gun restrictions, including the nation's first anti-red flag MUNICH (AP) The United States has determined that Russia has committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine, Vice President Kamala Harris said Saturday, insisting that justice must be served to the perpetrators. And if there was any meaning to it, it wasnt in regards to the crash. They had been . They had nothing to do with the crash, other than being present. The actual Morse code which the Chilean Operator believed she received was: S T E N D E C Discussion Four letter ICAO codes for airports had 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. 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[4], Star Dust's last flight was the final leg of BSAA Flight CS59, which had started in London on an Avro York named Star Mist on 29 July 1947, landing in Buenos Aires on 1 August. They were finally grounded in 1959, unsurprisingly after yet another ex-BSAA Tudor flew into a Turkish mountain, for reasons that remain unclear, killing all on board. between the letters). Its meaning, however, is astonishingly simple. . According to experts, if an additional space had been added between the first two letters, STENDEC would translate to: ATTENTION END END OF MESSAGE. It seems a bit redundant to say END and then END OF MESSAGE, however. same combination of dashes and dots as STENDEC, but shifting the spaces in "Systems to the end navigation depends entirely on circle" (although As might be inferred from that lineage, it was uncomfortable, noisy, and cramped.
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