Business people disappeared on a business trip over Alaska. There are no traces of amateur yachtsmen. The planes and boats of the travelers disappeared as if they were swallowed up by the earth.
They disappeared unexpectedly, suddenly, as if they were swallowed by the earth. Dozens of years have passed since then. Relatives, of course, have long lost hope. No one in families expects to see their loved ones again. The worst thing, says Jason Roth, is the unknown. It haunts. This uncertainty, terrible questions, reproaches still worried Jason Roth and tormented him to this day, almost every night. He returned, survived, one of all. His brothers Jeff, Kent, Scott and their friends are missing - disappeared in Alaska.
It happened at the end of the first week of May 1992. The four Roth brothers, along with a couple of friends, set off in two sessnas to fish in the trout area 500 km away. They wanted to spend a couple of carefree days in the unspoiled, wilderness of Alaska. It was a flight that had already become a tradition. At first everything went so well, relaxing, so well as always. The fishermen, delighted with the excellent catch, fried it on the evening fire in front of the hut. “As always, those days flew by too quickly,” recalls Jason Roth wistfully.
Cessna 177 Cardinal.
The return flight of the amateur pilots was stressful as a storm broke out - in fact, nothing unusual in Alaska airspace. The two pilots were arguing over the radio about what to do. Since they could not agree, one took the risk and sent the plane straight into the turbulent stream. Jason, the pilot of the second Sessna, flew around the storm front and landed safely at his home airfield. There he waited for his brothers Jeff, Kent and Scott and two friends - to no avail. About them and about their "sessna" nothing was known. The five men and the plane simply disappeared, dissolved, as if they had melted into the sky.
The next day, the competent authorities began a search operation over a large area. The area of the southern coast of Alaska, where, according to assumptions, the disappeared were supposed to be, was divided into squares, and multiple overlapping raster fields were immediately flown over it, the same was done with Prince William Bay, the mainland entrance gate, when approaching from south of the Gulf of Alaska. During six weeks of searches, an area of 60,000 square kilometers was combed several times. It was one of the longest and most expensive search operations in Alaska history. Of course, Jason Roth also took part in it. He felt very bad, reproaching himself for not convincing the others of the safety of his route, perhaps by giving way too early. “All summer I flew out again every evening after work,to find at least the wreckage of the plane, - said Jason Roth of his desperate personal searches for the three brothers and both friends. But all efforts were unsuccessful. Even the crash site has not yet been found.
What happened then? Was it related to an impending storm? With technical problems, "sessny", however, a very durable and reliable aircraft? Where did she fall? Why was no trace found? Accidents like this are not uncommon in the latitudes of Alaska. The beauty of the landscape has fascinated people for a long time. But the spectacular landscape hides dire dangers. Almost every week, on their routes across the vast land, tourists disappear, planes make forced landings, people fall under avalanches on the Aleutian ridge, bears or wolves attack them.
Anyone who follows the Anchorage Daily News reports for several weeks will find messages like these:
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“The fall of a light plane caused six casualties. Rescue teams found the debris the day after the disappearance. “During the flight, four German vacationers suffered a disaster and died. The wreckage of a single-engine plane was found near Davidson's Glacier.
“In a camp near the mountain village of Haider, a brown bear bit and partially devoured a 41-year-old man.”
“After a series of avalanches, the town of Gedwood remained cut off from the world for a week. 2,000 residents and ski vacationers held out in the city hall, which they managed to heat. Rescuers on heavy bulldozers eventually managed to break through the blockade.
Messages like this are repeated frequently. For the authorities, these are almost sad days. But what catches the eye - and especially to the families of the victims - is an unusual number of extremely mysterious cases: people, planes and ships inexplicably disappear without a trace. Businessmen do not return from a business trip. Adventurers or travelers disappear as if they were swallowed up by the earth. Planes crash, disappear from the radar screens, and their wreckage is never found. Tourists disappear after flying around the glaciers, the culmination of any trip to Alaska. One of these mysterious mysteries was and remains the case of the Roth brothers. All searches to this day have ended in vain.
Nature again and again in an incomprehensible, coded consonance shows both its sides - exciting and terrifying. Meanwhile, many Alaskans talk about the Bermuda Triangle of the North. The area that now and then throws them riddles runs across the state. It covers a trapezoidal area in the southeast, extending from Mount Logan, which is 5,959 m high, and the Alaskan Ridge, and Prince William's Bay, far northwest of Alaska to the Brooks Ridge and the Arctic Circle. Meanwhile, more people are reported missing in Alaska's Bermuda Triangle than in the Caribbean's Bermuda Triangle.
For the many unexplained cases of disappearances of ships and their crews near Bermuda in the Caribbean Sea, marine geologists have developed a scientific theory that explains at least the phenomenon of the Bermuda Triangle: at the bottom of the sea, according to scientists, due to tectonic movements of continents, bottom and sediment overthrust occurs. These powerful forces create huge craters on the seabed. The next result of bottom movements is the release of gases, such as methane, from underground gas fields in rocks. These bottom gases escape through crater holes in the seabed and emerge as extremely strong vortices to the surface of the water. In addition, the escaping gases change the density of the water. The resulting gas vortex with unimaginable force draws iodine into the water of ships that are nearby. Besides,the changed density of the water leads to the loss of buoyancy of ships. This sequence of events is allegedly responsible for the sinking of so many ships in the Caribbean Bermuda Triangle.
But what is hidden behind the mystery of the disappeared planes and people in the Bermuda Triangle of Alaska, in a land in which there may be more surprises than anywhere else?
Alaska is four times the size of Germany, but densely populated Germany has 80 million inhabitants, while Alaska has just 600,000 inhabitants. In 1867, this strategically important territory, located near the Arctic Circle, between the Bering Strait, the Beaufort Sea and Canada, near the Gulf of Alaska with the Aleutian Islands chain, was bought by the United States from Russia for a negligible price of 7.2 million dollars.
Since then, Alaska is the largest state in the United States
The endless, almost virgin beauty of this land evokes a fabulous charm. What Alaska cannot offer: the highest mountain in North America, Mount McKinley at 6,194 meters, Dineli National Park, Prince William's Bay, mountains, lakes, fjords and glaciers. In Alaska, you may not meet anyone for months. Anyone who returns from the vastness to civilization will talk about the burden and pleasure of loneliness, about the beauty and dangers of a journey full of adventure. Provided that he comes back.
Alaska immediately punishes wildlife lovers for their day-to-day frivolity. Often the path to the nature of this land
“A landscape of high peaks and lakes that seems to stretch to the horizon. You can go further and further and discover new spaces."
