Hurricane Janet was the most powerful hurricane of the 1955 Atlantic hurricane season and one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record. It made landfall as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, causing catastrophic damage and at least 687 deaths in the Lesser Antilles, Yucatán Peninsula, and mainland Mexico. Before striking Central America, a reconnaisance aircraft which flew into the storm was lost; all aboard perished. This is the only such loss which has occurred in association with an Atlantic hurricane.
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