[3][pageneeded], Star Dust carried six passengers and a crew of five on its final flight. / - / . The radio operator meant to say Stardust. - / . Before this message a series of entirely routine messages had been But would they repeat AR too, not just the airport code, for clarity? 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. know for certain, but I believe this is by far the most likely meaning of They were in a remarkable state of preservation; freeze-dried by icy winds, the remains had not suffered bacteriological decay. Outside of the music world, Joel is a best-selling author, releasing The Realists Guide to a Successful Music Career, which features Kris Williams is a lesbian, and that means she wont be seeing her son anytime soon. 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. For a more detailed explanation 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. 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. Despite Stardusts fate now fully resolved, the mystery of STENDEC is still argued to this day, with no definitive conclusion on what Dennis Harmer was intending to communicate that evening. Presumed to have crash landed somewhere along the route, a five day effort began by both Chilean and Argentine search teams, including fellow BSAA pilots, yet no trace of the aircraft or its passengers were found. As for the Avro Tudor, its safety record was deplorable even at the time. Theories include everything from sabotage to aliens. / -.. / . - /. Imaginative souls speculated that aliens had snatched the large Lancastrian along with its passengers and crew. 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. Hence we have: It's reported as looking luminous and spherical, and can vary in diameter - from pea-sized to several metres long. In January 2000, a 100-man search party from the Argentine Army clambered 5,000 meters (16,400 feet) up Tupungato Mountain, a 6,552-meter (21,490-foot) volcano, where it located parts of the plane, as well as human bones, at the base of a glacier. Five of the eight British victims have been identified. losing the first two dots) yields ETA LATE - apparently a common / -.-. [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. flew at this time reports that it was common to inform the airport / -.. / . amusing messages based on using STENDEC as a series of initials: Various people came up with intriguing, imaginative and sometimes Many people wrote pointing out that STENDEC is an anagram of descent. This button leads to the main index of LGF Pages, our user-submitted articles. In morse code, there are various short-hand acronyms and abbreviations which help convey much longer messages quickly. 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. This one individual in particular mentioned that he asked his 80 year old father, who remembers hearing the phrase being used often by the radio operator on his ship when he served in the Merchant Marine during WWII. 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. On Saturday 2nd August 1947, at around 1:45pm, an Avro Lancastrian Mk.III passenger plane known as Stardust departed from Buenos Aires, Argentina to make a roughly 3 hour 45 minute trip to Santiago, Chile. [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. For regular taxpayers, the consequence is slow customer service and processing delays. 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. 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. tower aircraft now descending entering cloud") Without an explanation the case remains a mystery. 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. / -.-. The full. were all supplied with oxygen. The crew probably did not panic, but they were concerned about the lack of visibility and landmarks. / / . Moreover, operators at the time only referred to aircraft by their registration code, which in Star Dusts case was G-AGWH., Acronym Theory Morse allows a maximum of four dots and dashes in any letter, narrowing the possibility for mistakes. Similarly, another Morse expert has pointed out that to attract [22] Alternatively, the Morse spelling for "STENDEC" is one character off from instead spelling VALP, the call sign for the airport at Valparaiso, 110 kilometers north of Santiago. - . (STENDEC) STENDEC was corrupted into Stendek and became the name of a Spanish Then nothing. Really neat, I hadn't heard of this before. No distress transmission was received; the last broadcast from the aircraft was a routine position check, about two hours before it should have reached its destination. While the fate of Star Dust had finally been solved, remaining in its wake was still the mystery of the crews final messageSTENDEC. Iris Evans, who had previously served in the Women's Royal Naval Service ("Wrens") as a chief petty officer, was the flight attendant. 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. STENDEC/STAR DUST Theory Adding to the mystery, two Avro 691 Lancastrian aircraft had crashed during the previous seventeen months. See link for the answer to this 63 year old question. This page has been archived and is no longer updated. The 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. [5] The passengers were one woman and five men of Palestinian, Swiss, German and British nationality. 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. People all over the world had reported hundreds of flying saucer sightings during the last two weeks of June 1947. 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. 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. Why would The last two possible mistranslations both involve an input mistake of some sort, but there is another phrase which uses the exact same morse code sequence as STENDEC but with different spacing. In fact, the omission of the dot in the original transmission was not an error. (ETA LATE) 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. The mystery of the word STENDEC took its place among the great unsolved cases so beloved in the lore of urban legendry. What was radio operator Dennis Harmer, a highly trained wartime and civilian operator, trying to say? a new clue the truth is we will never know for sure what that final 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. But the budgetary toll of persistent underfunding is unmistakable. Was there a connection? - . Mystery solved. / -.-. Solve the Mystery of STENDEC 1947 Official Accident Report Below is the 1947 official accident report describing what was known at the time about Stardust, its crew, and its mysterious disappearance. to imagine STENDEC being scrambled into descent in English, it is Lancasters had four Rolls Royce Merlin engines, the front-line combat engine that powered the latest Spitfire and Mustang fighters. The Stardust incident involved British South American Airways G-AGWH. As mentioned in a previous theory, morse code can be easily misinterpreted if incorrectly spaced or misheard by the receiver. In 2000 the Argentine Army detachment found the debris scattered over one square kilometer, a relatively small area, so the bomb theory was discarded. STENDEC. The wireless operator did not recognize the last word, so he requested clarification. All further calls were A popular photographer who has amassed almost 30,000 followers on Instagram has admitted that his portraits are actually generated by artificial intelligence (AI). 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. As might be inferred from that lineage, it was uncomfortable, noisy, and cramped. "Santiago tower message now descending entering cloud" (or "Santiago 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. Conspiracy Theory Watch: Don't Drink the Kool Aid. 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. The site had been difficult to reach. Morse code experts we have consulted believe that it is highly unlikely Some things can be said with some degree of certainty. A WGBH-Boston NOVA: Vanished (2001) program about the crash commented: Some of the six passengers on board seemed to have stepped straight out of an Agatha Christie novel. They included a Palestinian businessman with a sizable diamond sewn into the lining of his jacket; a German migr, Marta Limpert, returning to Chile with the ashes of her dead husband; and a British courier carrying diplomatic correspondence. This is a personal family mystery that got solved a few years ago, so nothing exciting that would have gotten media attention, haha. The investigators concluded that the aircraft had not stalled. Another explanation, advanced at the time of the disappearance, 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! I thought this had been solved in a documentary I watched. The theory The crew probably did not panic, but they were concerned about the lack of visibility and landmarks. Americas owner-flown aircraft enthusiasts and active-pilot resource, delivered to your inbox! Its not even common practice for a plane to transmit its name at the end of a routine message, so this theory also unfortunately falls flat. British Overseas Airways G-AGLX (the registration number) went down on March 23, 1946, and British Overseas Airways G-AGMF crashed on August 20. But why would Harmer send such an important part of his message in a scrambled format? Banksters, Peasants, and Kim Jong Un's Grandpa: A Parable for Our Times. 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. between the letters). Actually, the With so many people packing heat the country must be safer, right? Imaginative souls speculated that aliens had snatched the large Lancastrian along with its passengers and crew. However, while the aircraft was unpressurized, its crew had been supplied with oxygen. 5 STENDEC Another mystery involving a plane played out on August 2, 1947. Additionally, the condition of the wheels proved that the undercarriage was still retracted, suggesting controlled flight into terrain rather than an attempted emergency landing. Explanations based in Morse code 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 hastily sent morse message gives us : We will never 'ETA [estimated time of arrival] Santiago 17.45 hrs STENDEC' 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. If they wanted to convey distress, they would have sent an SOS., Misinterpretation Theory of messages offering explanations of STENDEC. /, which is VALP, the call sign for the airport at Valparaiso, some 110 kilometers north of Santiago. So mysterious was That would leave just "END", sandwiched between a signal attracting 1 Pan Am Flight 7 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. 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. of the above, please follow the link to Martin Colwell's website here - 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. use SOS, the internationally accepted distress signal? Below we include a 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. In either case, they attempted to contact what they thought was the nearest airport, Valparaiso, not Santiago. The central route via Mendoza was considered to be the quickest of the three, yet potentially the most dangerous depending on weather conditions. Adding to the mystery, two Avro 691 Lancastrian aircraft had crashed during the previous seventeen months. But what was Jon Stewart asks when we will have enough guns -- watch to the end to watch him absolutely stick the landing. The dots and dash formed one letter, V: / . . They may be similar, but it is still hard to imagine an experienced 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. 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. 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 theory about it being a code for the airport makes a lot more sense. 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? 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. I was a radio operator aboard an R.A.N. A WGBH-Boston NOVA: Vanished (2001) program about the crash commented: Some of the six passengers on board seemed to have stepped straight out of an Agatha Christie novel. They included a Palestinian businessman with a sizable diamond sewn into the lining of his jacket; a German migr, Marta Limpert, returning to Chile with the ashes of her dead husband; and a British courier carrying diplomatic correspondence. Its civil certificate of airworthiness (CofA) number 7282 was issued on 1 January 1946. No trace of the missing Lancastrian aircraft, named Star Dust, could be found. . "Systems to the end navigation depends entirely on circle" (although 1 "The Bloop" is an underwater mystery that took nearly 10 years to solve. After getting the boot from BSAA, he launched his own fly-by-night airline, Airflight Ltd., using two Tudors he'd picked up cheaply and one of which he flew himself. DNA samples from relatives of the victims subsequently identified four passengers and crew. / -. 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. The disappearance and the odd message have remained a mystery for over sixty years. The weather on the day consisted of snowstorms in the Andes Mountains with moderate to intense turbulence, whilst visual contact with the ground would have been extremely low and unfit for flying. Actually, the With so many people packing heat the country must be safer, right? much harder in Morse code.-.. / . End Credits. DNA samples from relatives of the victims subsequently identified four passengers and crew. Both men were last spotted being arrested by deputy Steve Calkins for driving without a license. -, Press J to jump to the feed. out, but seems unlikely. 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. 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. Now the plane has been found we know that it wasnt spirited away As it turns out, STENDEC is an anagram of the word "descent." One popular theory is that the crew, flying at 24,000 feet in an unpressurized aircraft, suffered from hypoxia. name at the end of a routine message. [14] Human remains were also recovered, including three torsos, a foot in an ankle boot and a manicured hand. - - . The problem? 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. Improperly loaded, it crashed on landing, killing 80 of the people on board -- at the time, the worst air disaster in world history. So apparently the mystery hasn't been solved, because I don't see anything in the article suggesting anyone understands what Stendec meant. It was concluded that, being his first Trans-Andean flight in command, and in view of the weather conditions, Cook should not have crossed via the direct route, and despite the absence of a wreckage, the plane likely perished somewhere along the snowy peaks of the Andes Mountains. 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. by John . - /. Ball lightning is a potentially dangerous atmospheric electrical phenomenon. STENDEC. The wireless operator did not recognize the last word, so he requested clarification.
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