~Amelia Earhart~

[Dabs]

Interesting bit of info about the Amelia Earhart mystery.......

Hillary Clinton Wades Into Amelia Earhart Mystery

 

[waltky]

Granny remembers when she went missing - Hillary pro'bly does too...

Latest Amelia Earhart Search Falls Short
July 24, 2012 - A $2.2 million expedition that hoped to find wreckage from famed aviator Amelia Earhart's final flight is on its way back to Hawaii without the dramatic, conclusive plane images searchers were hoping to attain.

But the group leading the search, The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, still believes Earhart and her navigator crashed onto a reef off a remote island in the Pacific Ocean 75 years ago this month, its president told The Associated Press on Monday. "This is just sort of the way things are in this world," TIGHAR president Pat Thrasher said. "It's not like an Indiana Jones flick where you go through a door and there it is. It's not like that - it's never like that." Thrasher said the group collected a significant amount of video and sonar data, which searchers will pore over on the return voyage to Hawaii this week and afterward to look for things that may be tough to see at first glance.

The group is also planning a voyage for next year to scour the land where it's believed Earhart survived a short while after the crash, Thrasher said. Thrasher maintained touch throughout the search with TIGHAR founder Ric Gillespie, her husband, and posted updates about the trip to the group's website. The updates tell of a search that was cut short because of treacherous underwater terrain and repeated, unexpected equipment mishaps that caused delays and left the group with only five days of search time rather than 10, as originally planned.

During one episode, an autonomous underwater vehicle the group was using in its search wedged itself into a narrow cave, a day after squashing its nose cone against the ocean floor. It needed to be rescued. "The rescue mission was successful - but it was a real cliffhanger," Gillespie wrote in an email posted online last week. "Operating literally at the end of our tether, we searched for over an hour in nightmare terrain: a vertical cliff face pockmarked with caves and covered with fern-like marine growth." Thrasher said the environment was tougher to navigate than searchers expected.

The U.S. State Department had encouraged the privately-funded voyage, which launched earlier this month from Honolulu using 30,000 pounds (13,608 kilograms) in specialized equipment and a University of Hawaii ship normally used for ocean research. The group's thesis is based on the idea that Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan landed on a reef near the Kiribati atoll of Nikumaroro, then survived a short time. Previous visits to the island have recovered artifacts that could have belonged to Earhart and Noonan, and experts say an October 1937 photo of the shoreline of the island could include a blurry image of the strut and wheel of a Lockheed Electra landing gear.

The photo was enough for the State Department blessing, and led to the Kiribati government to sign a contract with the group to work together if anything is found, Gillespie said at the start of the voyage. A separate group working under a different theory plans its third voyage later this year near Howland Island. Earhart and Noonan were flying from New Guinea to Howland Island when they went missing July 2, 1937, during Earhart's bid to become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe.

Latest Amelia Earhart search falls short - CBS News

 

[Dabs]

Interesting.
I am sure tho...it's going to be like so many other damn stories in our lifetime.....such as JFK....that we will never know the whole story~

 

[waltky]

Uncle Ferd says by now if she's still at the controls, she's prob'ly a skeleton...

Researchers May Have Found Amelia Earhart's Plane Debris
Aug. 18, 2012 - Forensic imaging specialists have found what looks like a wheel and other landing gear off the coast of Nikumaroro Island in the Pacific Ocean, right where analysts and archeologists think Amelia Earhart's plane went down in 1937.

"We don't know whether it's her plane, but what we have is a debris field in a place where there should be a debris field if what we had put together based on the evidence that we had is correct," said Ric Gillespie, executive director of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), which led the $2.2 million expedition last month. During the trip, Gillespie said he was "bummed" because they didn't see much in the coral reef from their standard video camera. The high definition camera footage couldn't be viewed in real time, so they had to process it and send it over to forensic analyst Jeff Glickman before they could get any answers. "On Tuesday afternoon, he calls me and says, 'You know, there's stuff here. It looks like manmade debris," Gillespie said.

So Gillespie compared the logs to his maps and said, "Whoa. What he's seeing is right where we reasoned things should be." Based on the last thing Earhart ever said over the radio, she was on a navigational line called 157337, which has two other islands along it other than Howard Island, which was where Earhart was aiming to land. Although the Navy began looking for her along the route initially, the idea was forgotten until two retired Navy officers approached Gillespie in 1988.

Gillespie said he and TIGHAR began looking for Earhart's plane "reluctantly," but this is its 10th expedition to date. Earlier this year, the State Department confirmed analysis of what's become known as the "Bevington Photo," which TIGHAR says depicts landing gear floating off Nikumaroro. TIGHAR's analyst identified manmade debris that resembled a wheel, a fender and other landing gear, all of which is consistent with what is depicted in the Bevington photo, Gillespie said. "At first blush here, it appears that in this debris field, it may be a component of that same object we saw in that 1937 photo," he said.

But it's not realistic for researchers to expect to find a whole plane in the waters around Nikumaroro, Gillespie said, because the underwater topography is hostile and plagued by mudslides. TIGHAR isn't releasing information about exactly where they found debris for security reasons. In past expeditions, archeologists found and chemically analyzed a few other clues, including freckle cream and hand lotion women in America would have bought in the 1930s that Earhart may have had with her when she disappeared.

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[waltky]

Uncle Ferd says the Japs beheaded her with a samurai sword `cause dey thought she was a spy...

Photo may suggest Amelia Earhart survived crash
July 5, 2017 -- Legendary pilot Amelia Earhart may have survived the 1937 disappearance of her plane, a television documentary says, basing its theory on a recently found photograph.

The photo was discovered in 2012 by Les Kinney, a retired U.S. Treasury agent. It is believed to have been taken by a photographer later executed by the Japanese military, and possibly shows Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan on a dock in the Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean islands then occupied by Japan. Their plane appears to be aboard a barge towed by a Japanese ship, says documentary producer, Shawn Henry, a former FBI executive assistant director.

If legitimate, the photo indicates that Earhart, a celebrated pilot and record setter, survived her final flight and was captured by the Japanese. Considerable effort by the U.S. Navy and other U.S. agencies was dedicated to finding Earhart, whose exploits were avidly followed by the American public. "This absolutely changes history. I think we proved beyond a reasonable doubt that she survived her flight and was held prisoner by the Japanese on the island of Saipan, where she eventually died," said Henry, who interviewed experts on the authenticity of the photo and the likelihood it shows the doomed aviator.

The new theory, explained in an upcoming program, is counter to the prevailing belief that Earhart's plane ran out of fuel and crashed into the Pacific Ocean, causing her death. In the past, those who didn't believe Earhart died in the crash have suggested she and Noonan were executed by the Japanese military, which may have seen them as U.S. spies. Representatives of the Japanese government and military archives have said they have no documents indicating Earhart was ever in Japanese custody. Despite numerous searches, her body has not been found.

Dorothy Cochrane of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum disagreed with the new theory. Cochrane said she is unaware of any evidence regarding Earhart that that "could be a game changer," she told People magazine. Henry said the new theory opens up additional questions regarding Earhart's disappearance. "It is not clear why the U.S. might want to cover up what happened to Amelia. If in fact she was spying on the Japanese, the government may not have wanted the American public to know they put 'America's sweetheart' in that situation and she was captured," Henry said.

Photo may suggest Amelia Earhart survived crash

 

[Marianne]

Interesting bit of info about the Amelia Earhart mystery.......

Hillary Clinton Wades Into Amelia Earhart Mystery

I get nothing from the link but based on what I've heard there's a photo that supposedly shows Earhart, Fred Noonan and possibly the plane wreckage. It's been theorized for years that they went down and were captured by the Japanese as spies.

 

[Camp]

I think this is all hype for an upcoming TV series. There are several groups who collect donations for their explorations and investigations into the great 20th Century mystery. It makes a pretty good living and steady income for supporting what is basically a hobby.
Like all the other past reports and TV series, they will end with a promise to go back and explore more clues and continue the search to end the mystery followed by more solicitations for donations and funding.

 

[Silent Warrior]

I tend to agree. We see all the advance advertising for such programs promising progress, but the one thing they never do is actually find Amelia or sasquach.

 

[Camp]

I tend to agree. We see all the advance advertising for such programs promising progress, but the one thing they never do is actually find Amelia or sasquach.

Remember when they found her living as a housewife in New Jersey? That was a hoot, and a heck of a hoax, scam, whatever.

 

[Marianne]

The theory that they might have made Gardner's Island in more Plausible. The Navy searched for something like 2 weeks and found nothing. This was a fairly small plane in a large ocean. Considering larger airliners have gone missing without a trace in the ocean Earhart and Noonan probably are on the bottom of the ocean.

 

[my2¢]

The OP link didn't open for me.

Yesterday this photograph was going around along with suggestion that it might confirm theory that Earhart and her navigator were taken prisoner by Japanese who were fearful that the pair might see something the Japanese didn't want discovered.