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Complete the story of the Bermuda Triangle with the past perfect simple or past perfect continuous from the verbs in brackets .

In December 1945 , five military planes were on a training flight after they had ____________________ ( take off ) from an airbase in Florida in the USA . The planes ____________________ ( fly ) for about an hour and they ____________________ ( fly ) about 300 miles when without warning , the navigational instruments on all the planes , which ____________________ ( work ) perfectly up to that point , suddenly stopped working . Radio contact was then lost . None of the planes or crew was ever seen again . The official explanation is that before they vanished , the planes ____________________ ____________________ ( fly ) into an area of unusual magnetic activity . It is believed that this ____________________ ( cause ) their compasses and other equipment to malfunction . The planes were flying over the Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda and the story of the Bermuda Triangle was born . By the mid - 1970s , sixteen more planes ____________________ ( mysteriously / disappear ) in the same area . And it appears that in almost all cases , the navigational equipment ____________________ ( stop ) working just before the planes disappeared .