Why Lake Havasu is the Bermuda Triangle of the West

A recent issue of Route Magazine had an article about Lake Havasu, calling it the Bermuda Triangle of the West. On two different occasions, planes have crashed into the lake, never to be seen again. That’s despite over 700,000 people visiting the lake every year, and in one of the cases, multiple witnesses saw where the plane crashed, but its still missing.

Lake Havasu is a large reservoir on the Colorado River, located on the border of Arizona and California, that was formed after the Parker Dam was completed in 1938. Nowadays the lake is a very popular recreation area, but prior to the 1960s the area was pretty remote.

The first plane to go missing in the lake disappeared in 1943, during the height of World War II. The pilot managed to parachute to safety, but his Pursuit P-40 was never seen again.

Seventeen years later, in 1960, another plane crashed into the lake, this one carrying two brothers from California on a hunting trip. Multiple witnesses on the ground and air saw the crash and both bodies were recovered less than two hours after the crash. The plane however, has still not been found.

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