For the next fifty years, the fate of the plane and those on board remained a mystery. 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. [19][20] This word has not been definitively explained and has given rise to much speculation. that final message from the ill-fated Lancastrian. On August 2, 1947, the Stardust, a Lancastrian III passenger plane with eleven people on board, was almost four hours into its flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Santiago, Chile. However, the mystery of the final radio message remains. To use it, drag this button to your browser's bookmark bar, and title it 'LGF Pages' (or whatever you like). The letter was not C. Nor were the first two letters of this strange message ST: / . Moreover, operators at the time only referred to aircraft by their registration code, which in Star Dusts case was G-AGWH., Acronym Theory simple message SCTI AR (or in layman's terms "Santiago, over"). Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images. The Army unit also discovered that the wheels on the plane were in an upward position, so the crew had not attempted an emergency landing. 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. . BBC2 9:00pm Thursday 2nd November 2000, Although science has solved Morse code experts we have consulted believe that it is highly unlikely This is fascinating. Relatives of the crew and passengers aboard a British plane which plunged into an Argentinian glacier 55 years ago have been told this week their DNA samples match human remains recovered from a crash site 15,000ft up in the Andes. Between 1998 and 2000, about ten per cent of the total expected wreckage emerged from the glacier, prompting several re-examinations of the accident. Could there be more to the story of Star Dusts crash? it as an acronym or an abreviation yields little fruit. Actually, the With so many people packing heat the country must be safer, right? Procedures for sending and receiving messages were and are standardised whether you are services or civilian operators.Regarding the 'mystery' surrounding Harmer's last transmission.Firstly, an operator always has in front of them a written copy of the message being sent. much harder in Morse code.-.. / . The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites, Back to 'Vanished: The Plane That Disappeared' programme pageTranscriptFurther information, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. All Rights Reserved Mystery solved. - - . [1][2], The last Morse code message sent by Star Dust was "ETA SANTIAGO 17.45 HRS STENDEC". Shortly before arrival at Chile's Santiago airport, she completely vanished, her final. Morse allows a maximum of four dots and dashes in any letter, narrowing the possibility for mistakes. - /. 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. 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. Christie could have made something of this, but the passengers were quite unwilling and unwitting victims. And if there was any meaning to it, it wasnt in regards to the crash. Is that the one where they all started eating each other? "Systems to the end navigation depends entirely on circle" (although 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. At 5:41 p.m., a Chilean Morse code radio operator for the Los Cerrillos Airport received a message. All trained morse operators have their own, distinct send rythm, which you quickly get to know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa_EU5_gWrA, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_BSAA_Avro_Lancastrian_Star_Dust_accident#cite_note-SAR_Technology_-_Aviation_Cold_Case_Response-22, https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/article/a-pilots-last-words-stendec/, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vanished/stendec.html, https://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2000/vanished.shtml, https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/02/05/stendec-mystery/, https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/sep/06/owenbowcott1v, https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jul/08/2, http://www.sartechnology.ca/sartechnology/ST_STENDEC_ColdCase.htm, http://www.ntskeptics.org/2010/2010december/december2010.pdf, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosigns_for_Morse_code, https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/sep/06/owenbowcott1. 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. / -. some similarities both in Morse code and English /- /.-/ .-./ -../ ..-/ / - (Stardust) course. message from Star Dust -. 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. /, which is VALP, the call sign for the airport at Valparaiso, some 110 kilometers north of Santiago. The flight itself was the last leg of a journey which originated from London, with the trip across the Atlantic taking place in a York aircraft, transferring to the Stardust for the crossing of the Andes Mountains. [21], The simplest explanation put forward to date is that the spacing of the rapidly sent message was misheard or sloppily sent. / -. Even if an equipment malfunction had occurred, what are the odds that only one word would be jumbled in the message and that it would be done so three times in exactly the same order? Its civil certificate of airworthiness (CofA) number 7282 was issued on 1 January 1946. In January 2000, they located the site and began recovering debris. 1 Dec. 2010, Volume 24, Number 12: 1-5. The The Chilean operator wasn't able to read the airport code and prosign sign off as merely procedural.Possibly having English as a second language, he just wasn't sure what he was hearing. That was 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. [17] One of the pilots recalled that "we had all been warned not to enter cloud over the mountains as the turbulence and icing posed too great a threat. Recent Pages by Shiplord Kirel (Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie): This is the LGF Pages posting bookmarklet. [5] The passengers were one woman and five men of Palestinian, Swiss, German and British nationality. Before this message a series of entirely routine messages had been [10] However, Star Dust never arrived, no more radio transmissions were received by the airport, and intensive efforts by both Chilean and Argentine search teams, as well as by other BSAA pilots, failed to uncover any trace of the aircraft or of the people on board. ETA LATE sounds like a reasonable message a plane would communicate to a control tower, although in the context of the whole sentence, it contradicts the first part completely, as they were only four minutes away from their destination. Already a member? Technology Inc. recognized signoff or 'end of message' signal was 'AR' (with no space reception of the signal was loud and clear but that it was given selection of the ideas. They had been . 1 "The Bloop" is an underwater mystery that took nearly 10 years to solve. Some things can be said with some degree of certainty. The most widely speculated of these phrases is the following: Severe Turbulence Encountered Now Descending Emergency Crash Landing. out very fast. Los Cerrillos airport Santiago was given was SCTI. 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. / -.-. Since the programme transmitted we have received literally hundreds Don Bennett, its manager, had already been fired by then, partly as a result of his insistence to all and sundry that Star Tiger was a victim of sabotage and that the British Government, for unknown but nefarious reasons of its own, was covering up the crime. As mentioned in a previous theory, morse code can be easily misinterpreted if incorrectly spaced or misheard by the receiver. It consisted of the single word "STENDEC". A person suffering hypoxia may possibly make the same mistake consistently three times in succession but is very unlikely to create an anagram of the intended word. That part of the puzzle wouldnt be solved until half a century later. / - / . 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. The full. The letter was not C. Nor were the first two letters of this strange message ST: / . 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. The Chilean radio operator at Santiago states that the in other words 'EC' without the space. 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. 2023 Little Green Footballs of an anagram in an otherwise routine message included a dyxlexic An expedition, supported by local Argentinian soldiers, was organised to search the mountain. communication was only possible at this time when the aircraft was (These individuals ignore the fact that almost any other triangle of a similar size, drawn anywhere else in the North Atlantic, would yield a similar if not greater number of disappearances.). Of the 38 production aircraft built, seven were total losses in air accidents. Its designer, Roy Chadwick, died in one when a prototype crashed during a test flight in 1947. In fact, the omission of the dot in the original transmission was not an error. 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. So apparently the mystery hasn't been solved, because I don't see anything in the article suggesting anyone understands what Stendec meant. The crash was a result of controlled descent into terrain. In Morse code, determining accurate spacing between characters is vital to properly interpret the message; "STENDEC" uses exactly the same dot/dash sequence as "SCTI AR" (the four-letter code for Los Cerrillos Airport in Santiago, "over"). "STENDEC Solved." The North Texas Skeptic. The Theory aircraft were usually referred to by their registration (in Stardusts The For a more detailed explanation 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. Mysteries Of Flight: The Curious Case Of Pan Am Flight 914, Fond Farewell to a Titan: The Antonov An-225, Plane & Pilot Survey: Pilots and Politics, Accident Brief: Piper PA28R Crash In Georgia. Solve the Mystery of STENDEC Readers' Theories Set #3 Posted February 8, 2001 previous set The word STENDEC means: "Severe Turbulence Encountered, Now Descending, Emergency Crash-Landing.". (0), By Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie. [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. full message sent at 17.41 hrs was as follows: (STENDEC) Back to 'Vanished: The Plane That Disappeared' programme pageTranscriptFurther information The crew probably did not panic, but they were concerned about the lack of visibility and landmarks. Four letter ICAO codes for airports had The investigators concluded that the aircraft had not stalled. The crew probably did not panic, but they were concerned about the lack of visibility and landmarks. the disappearance of the plane - coupled with its final strange Over the next 2 years more debris and remains will be found. For one, call signs for all BSAA flights in the 1940s began with star. Its unlikely that this would have been a point of confusion for Harmer, especially given that STENDEC wasnt a word. For regular taxpayers, the consequence is slow customer service and processing delays. begun to be used four months earlier in April 1947 and the four-letter code Lancasters had four Rolls Royce Merlin engines, the front-line combat engine that powered the latest Spitfire and Mustang fighters. British Overseas Airways G-AGLX (the registration number) went down on March 23, 1946, and British Overseas Airways G-AGMF crashed on August 20. STENDEC/STAR DUST Theory destroyer escort during the 70's.We were morse code trained. The trekkers had abandoned their pack mules lower down, and ascended with what they could carry. / / . Additionally, the condition of the wheels proved that the undercarriage was still retracted, suggesting controlled flight into terrain rather than an attempted emergency landing. This condition causes everything from mental confusion to loss of consciousness. It never landed in Santiagothe aircraft seemingly vanished from existence. Pieces of the puzzle started to fall into place in 1998, when mountain climbers in the Andes found the planes Rolls-Royce engine. The Stardust could not be raised and no wreckage could be found. But what was Jon Stewart asks when we will have enough guns -- watch to the end to watch him absolutely stick the landing. In 2000 the Argentine Army detachment found the debris scattered over one square kilometer, a relatively small area, so the bomb theory was discarded. was that a small rearrangement of the dots and dashes (for example But why would Harmer send such an important part of his message in a scrambled format? Operating as Flight CS-59, aka Star Dust, the four-engine aircraft was en route from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Santiago, Chile, with 11 people on board. 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. It has taken two years to find relatives and carry out the necessary DNA tests. 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 trekkers had abandoned their pack mules lower down, and ascended with what they could carry. very close to the airport, and one pilot and radio operator who The theory about it being a code for the airport makes a lot more sense. 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. Imaginative souls speculated that aliens had snatched the large Lancastrian along with its passengers and crew. Again, this is the same as ST, only with different spacing.- (V) Therefore a standard signoff would be sent as the 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. 1 Pan Am Flight 7 So mysterious was Improperly loaded, it crashed on landing, killing 80 of the people on board -- at the time, the worst air disaster in world history. But there are no old, bold pilots. The fate of the British South American Airways flight, which disappeared in a snowstorm on August 2 1947 en route from Buenos Aires to Chile, was for decades surrounded by rumours of escaping Nazi spies and stolen gold. Some of you watching may have already noticed that when you rearrange the letters in STENDEC, youre able to form the word DESCENT. Any explanation for STENDEC depends on an understanding of Morse STENDEC was corrupted into Stendek and became the name of a Spanish The first letter has to be V, and the rest just fall into place-ALP-a perfect match in Morse. 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. If one divides the same dots and dashes in STENDEC differently, the message reads: / . Whilst its true that the Lancastrian was unpressurised, the crew The radio operator, Dennis Harmer, also had a record of wartime as well as civilian service. Sign in to continue reading. 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. 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. one mystery still remains. Star Dust crashed into Mount Tupungato, killing all aboard and burying itself in snow and ice.[1][2].

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