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Plane Politely Signs Off Forever At 3:17 AM

At 3:17 a.m. on January 30, 1948, radio officer Robert Tuck aboard the Avro Tudor Star Tiger acknowledged receiving a bearing from Bermuda and was never heard from again. The aircraft had been flying from the Azores to Bermuda through gale-force winds at just 2,000 feet, far…