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Here, There, Nowhere: N9027Q

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   On February 11, 1980, at St. Thomas' Harry S. Truman Airport, a young man wearing black pants, a white shirt with epaulets, headed to and then revved up a twin engine executive Beechcraft Baron 58, marked N9027Q.  Yet no flight had been authorized. This person was later identified at Peter Christian Jensen, a 14 year old Civil Air Patrol student. He held no flight certificate.

           At 4:15 a.m. the airport mechanic saw the plane takeoff.

             Several hours later at 8:38 a.m. a strange MAYDAY
                 came from the plane. Flemming Flight 667 at Evens
             Intersection (390 miles from Bermuda) heard N9027Q
           transmit a MAYDAY saying he was at 900 feet altitude
           only 6 and a half miles east of Miami, lost both engines,
           and was ditching the plane.

     That was not all. At 8:53 a.m. fifteen minutes later, American Flight
   667 and Eastern Flight 924 (both at Ender Intersection 324 miles from Bermuda) heard another MAYDAY from Jensen. Although he didn’t state his name, they clearly picked up the call letters N9027Q. This time Jensen reported he was at 150 feet altitude and disoriented in clouds! (Clouds at 150 feet?)  

     Miami’s RCC immediately sent out a search helicopter. However, the weather was clear, and there was no trace of the Baron.

   Although Jensen reported himself near Miami, no plane or station around there overheard him, much the same as in Spector’s case with Nassau. Only 3 planes heard him, but all of them near Bermuda.

   Was he lost, and that’s just all there is to it? If that is all, how can one explain the final bit of mystery in this incident?

   At 8:05 that night South Caicos Island Airport, the island that lies halfway between San Juan, PR., and Miami, heard a voice over the radio request permission to land, stating furthermore, that he was 10 minutes away. The tower controllers described it as a young man’s voice, and clearly received the call letters N9027Q— insisting, mind you, they got the call letters correctly.

   Not knowing the plane was being searched for, the request seemed routine. They cleared it for landing, yet it never came in. They quickly got on the phone to rescue units. A full search found nothing here as well.

     This plane was also carrying an ELT just like the many others. Yet no signal was picked up coming from it indicating it ditched or crashed at sea.

     The Coast Guard didn’t think that the plane was really ever close to Miami or the Bahamas because all the planes which had heard Jensen were near Bermuda.

   Looking in retrospect, it seems every corner of the vast Bermuda Triangle was in some way touched by this mystery. First, the plane took off near San Juan’s corner,  reported lost in weird atmospheric conditions at Miami’s, yet was overheard by those near Bermuda. The last report call was also from an area which, geographically speaking, almost appears to be the middle of the Bermuda Triangle.

   In subsequent investigation the Coast Guard firmly established that the plane had 5 hours of fuel on board. Yet 16 hours after takeoff a routine call came from Jensen— 11 hours after the possible.  

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