Sign up for our newsletter, full of tips, reviews and more! NOVA Online | Vanished! | 1947 Official Accident Report Could there be more to the story of Star Dusts crash? The word Some politicians have irresponsibly suggested that every new IRS employee will be a gun-toting enforcement agent. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Harris Joel is a founding member and the resident keyboard wizard for Umphreys McGee AND a long-time Phish fan! 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. - /. 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. clear that STENDEC is not what the message was meant to say. Imaginative souls speculated that aliens had snatched the large Lancastrian along with its passengers and crew. / -.. / . 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. Morse allows a maximum of four dots and dashes in any letter, narrowing the possibility for mistakes. The crew probably did not panic, but they were concerned about the lack of visibility and landmarks. However, while the aircraft was unpressurized, its crew had been supplied with oxygen. same combination of dashes and dots as STENDEC, but shifting the spaces in In 2000 the Argentine Army detachment found the debris scattered over one square kilometer, a relatively small area, so the bomb theory was discarded. So mysterious was An explanation of STENDEC .. - Fly With The Stars [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. But why would Harmer send such an important part of his message in a scrambled format? Its designer, Roy Chadwick, died in one when a prototype crashed during a test flight in 1947. They had nothing to do with the crash, other than being present. 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. . Was there a connection? Vanished: The Plane That Disappeared STENDEC Solved by John L. Scherer. 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 STENDEC Puzzle | Science 2.0 Pages Sign In Register Forgot password? know for certain, but I believe this is by far the most likely meaning of / - (Descent) - - . That part of the puzzle wouldnt be solved until half a century later. [15] During the final portion of Star Dust's flight, heavy clouds would have blocked visibility of the ground. But the budgetary toll of persistent underfunding is unmistakable. Its fate became one of the most puzzling aviation mysteries of its time. were all supplied with oxygen. Similarly, another Morse expert has pointed out that to attract The Message That Said STENDEC "ETA Santiago 17:45 hrs. in other words 'EC' without the space. In 1998, over 50 years after the disappearance of Stardust, a group of Argentine mountaineers climbing Mount Tupungato, one of the highest mountains in the Andes and roughly 50 miles east of Santiago, stumbled upon the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine of the Lancastrian. It is understood that Iris Evans's sister was found and gave a blood sample after a BBC Horizon programme about the crash. This is fascinating. But what was Jon Stewart asks when we will have enough guns -- watch to the end to watch him absolutely stick the landing. [18], Star Dust is likely to have flown into a nearly vertical snowfield near the top of the glacier, causing an avalanche that buried the wreckage within seconds and concealed it from searchers. between the letters). Ice crystals accumulated on a probe, causing it to give incorrect speed readings and the autopilot system to disengage. Whilst its possible that STENDEC could mean any one of these phrases, theres nothing definitive I can find which suggests that this phrase ever meant anything previously, making it more unlikely that this word was used intentionally at all. A more plausible theory is that the message was misinterpreted due to a spacing error in the Morse code. It would have been For those who aren't familiar, a flight carrying a Uruguayan rugby team and some of their family members crashed into the Andes in 1972. The theory about it meaning emergency crash landing is interesting but given a lack of sources outside of a few people telling anecdotes I don't know how believable it is. [10], In 1998, two Argentine mountaineers climbing Mount Tupungatoabout 60mi (100km) west-southwest of Mendoza, and about 50mi (80km) east of Santiagofound the wreckage of a Rolls-Royce Merlin aircraft engine, along with twisted pieces of metal and shreds of clothing, in the Tupungato Glacier at an elevation of 15,000ft (4,600m). course. unanswered. that Morse transmissions were closing down. The airliner will stay lost for 51 years until 1998 when mountaineers find parts of the wreckage on Mount Tupungato 50 miles east from the planes destination, Santiago. on initials. 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. transmitted by the plane, reporting their position and intended Since the programme transmitted we have received literally hundreds Then browse to a site you want to post, select some text on the page to use for a quote, click the bookmarklet, and the Pages posting window will appear with the title, text, and any embedded video or audio files already filled in, ready to go. You can post your own LGF Pages simply by registering a free account with us. / - / . of the station they wish to contact. Back to 'Vanished: The Plane That Disappeared' programme pageTranscriptFurther information If one divides the same dots and dashes in STENDEC differently, the message reads: / . In the late 1990s, pieces of wreckage from the missing aircraft began to emerge from the glacial ice. The dots and dash formed one letter, V: / . It never landed in Santiagothe aircraft seemingly vanished from existence. 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. The site had been difficult to reach. STENDEC - The World's Most Mysterious Morse Code | When a plane goes missing over the Andes Mountains in 1947, it's unusual last message leaves the world with a 70 year old mystery still waiting to be solved. Jos Avery has been posting his impressive photos Twitter continues to crumble bit by bit. destroyer escort during the 70's.We were morse code trained. Using the / -. 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. If they wanted to convey distress, they would have sent an SOS., Misinterpretation Theory Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Harris Joel is a founding member and the resident keyboard wizard for Umphreys McGee AND a long-time Phish fan! A FINAL WORDHorizon regrets that - due to the sheer volume of correspondence (STENDEC) / -. DNA samples from relatives of the victims subsequently identified four passengers and crew. They hadn't passed Curico. All further calls were normal for the Radio Operator to start the message by transmitting the name UFO magazine. As mentioned previously, the standard morse code for a distress signal is SOS, which is much easier and quicker to communicate than STENDEC. The official 1947 report into Stardusts disappearance highlighted a number of possibilities as to what likely happened to the ill-fated flight, with multiple factors potentially playing a role in its demise. Again, this is the same as ST, only with different spacing.- (V) [8], Star Dust left Buenos Aires at 1:46 pm on 2 August. Their discovery revived. The flight was conducted in zero-visibility conditions, so its unlikely the crew had any idea their plane was about to impact a mountainside. So apparently the mystery hasn't been solved, because I don't see anything in the article suggesting anyone understands what Stendec meant. much harder in Morse code.-.. / . most of the mysteries surrounding Stardusts disappearance, Conspiracy Theory Watch: Don't Drink the Kool Aid. Why would the operator say end? "Santiago tower message now descending entering cloud" (or "Santiago simple message SCTI AR (or in layman's terms "Santiago, over"). use SOS, the internationally accepted distress signal? Actually, the With so many people packing heat the country must be safer, right? Something about how the pilots were originally British Airways pilots and that Stendec actually meant something in British Airways terminology. based in Morse code, and have come from people highly familiar with Solve the Mystery of STENDEC STENDEC Theories On August 2, 1947, Stardust 's radio operator sent a final message in Morse code to the Chilean radio operator then on duty in Santiago. You're right! But before that, to help understand the This page has been archived and is no longer updated. 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. enigmatic radio message was meant to mean. The Morse for AR is.- /.-. Then nothing. / -. 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. On BSAA's Transatlantic services, moreover, it was operating at the ragged edge of its range when flying westbound. by aliens. Explanations based in Morse code The mystery of the word STENDEC took its place among the great unsolved cases so beloved in the lore of urban legendry. . . You can post your own LGF Pages simply by registering a free account with us. 1 "The Bloop" is an underwater mystery that took nearly 10 years to solve. 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. 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It was underpowered, unstable in yaw on the ground (pilots of the Tudor got used to feeding in power at different levels from each engine on takeoff to prevent the beast from departing uncontrollably off the side of the runway), unpleasant to handle in the air, prone to leaks of all kinds, and an ergonomic and maintenance nightmare. 56K views 8 months ago #Disasters #History For over 50 years the fate of Flight CS-59 remained a mystery. More interestingly, the morse code for STENDEC is only one character off from instead spelling VALP, which is almost the call sign for the closest airport to Valparaiso, 110km northwest of Santiago. 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.