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Star Tiger sent its last radio message at 3:17 a.m. in 1948. No wreckage was ever found.

Ellsworth Toohey
Jun 29, 2026
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BSAA Star Tiger disappearance 1948 mystery — RuthAS / CC BY 3.0 (via Wikipedia)

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, fa…

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