New search for Earhart plane takes off in '05

[Johnney]

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whats everyones theory on this one?

New search for Earhart plane takes off in '05

Mon Dec 20, 6:36 AM ET Top Stories - USATODAY.com


By Stephen Manning The Associated Press

At 17,000 feet beneath the surface, the temperature of ocean water is just above freezing, oxygen is sparse and currents are relatively calm.


In other words, ideal conditions for preserving an airplane that might have crashed into the depths nearly 70 years ago, according to marine explorer David Jourdan, who hopes to answer one of aviation's greatest mysteries: the fate of famed pilot Amelia Earhart.


Jourdan and his Maine-based company, Nauticos, plan to launch an expedition in the spring using sonar to sweep a 1,000-square-mile swath of ocean bottom west of tiny Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean.


It is the latest in a string of missions to learn what happened to Earhart when she, her navigator and their Lockheed Electra plane disappeared on a flight around the world.


"Things tend to last a time" in the deep ocean, Jourdan says. "Our expectation is the plane will be largely, if not completely, intact."


That is, if the plane is even in the ocean.


There is a host of theories about what befell Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan in 1937 as they made one of the final legs of their widely heralded flight.


Some have searched the sea, believing the plane ran out of gas. Others think she survived a crash landing but died on a deserted island. Another theory is that the Japanese captured and executed her. The conspiracy-minded claim Earhart survived and lived out her life under an assumed name as a New Jersey housewife.


This much is agreed on: Earhart and Noonan vanished July 2, 1937, as they approached an airstrip on Howland Island, roughly midway between Australia and Hawaii. They had taken off from Papua New Guinea, just 7,000 miles short of their goal to make Earhart the first woman to fly around the world.


A fearless flyer, Earhart set a string of altitude, distance and endurance records in the 1920s and 1930s, proving the still-young world of flying wasn't reserved for men. She captivated a Depression-era America eager for heroes, was feted by presidents and was compared to Charles Lindbergh. The press dubbed her "Lady Lindy."


The Navy launched a weeks-long search of 250,000 square miles of ocean around Howland and a nearby chain of small islands. No trace was ever found of the plane.


One of those going along on the Nauticos mission is Elgen Long, a former commercial pilot who has spent 30 years researching the mystery.


Long, 77, of Reno says he believes the answer to Earhart and Noonan's fate lies in their radio communications with a U.S. Coast Guard (news - web sites) cutter that was tracking their course near Howland Island. Using Coast Guard radio operator's logs, Long concluded that Earhart was perilously low on gas because a headwind was much stronger than she had anticipated. One of her last radio calls said she had only a half hour of fuel left and couldn't see land. "We can follow her all the way across the Pacific," he says of the radio records. "She ran out of gas just when she said she was going to."


This is Jourdan's second search of the area west of Howland. A 2002 mission was aborted because of technical problems. The same general area was searched in 1999 by another mission that found nothing conclusive. But Jourdan says that his new expedition, which will cost about $1.5 million, will use better sonar technology and more accurate information on where the plane may have crashed.


The shortage of oxygen and the fairly still water means a metal airplane likely would not have completely corroded, he says.


Any human remains would have long vanished, but Jourdan hopes to find clues such as Earhart's jewelry in the pilot's seat, or perhaps even Earhart's leather jacket.


"That would be eerie," he says.

If he finds it, Nauticos would plan another mission to raise the plane, which would become the centerpiece of a traveling exhibit on Earhart's life, Jourdan says.

Earhart's stepson, George Putnam, was 16 years old when her plane disappeared. Putnam, now 83 and living in Florida, says that he supports the mission partly because it could end the wild speculation about what happened to her. He doesn't mind if Nauticos salvages the plane.

"Let's see what happens," Putnam says.

To Long, it could be his last chance to solve one of the 20th-century's biggest mysteries.

"We need the true story of what happened," he says. "The history we read needs to be correct."

 

[no1tovote4]

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whats everyones theory on this one?

It was aliens man! Aliens!

 

[dilloduck]

It was aliens man! Aliens!

RIGHT WING (get it) conspiracy!

 

[dmp]

RIGHT WING (get it) conspiracy!

Yup. GWB - He had her 'removed'.

 

[no1tovote4]

Yup. GWB - He had her 'removed'.

Gasp!


GWB and the Aliens are in on this together?!!!!!!

I need more tinfoil!

 

[Johnney]

Gasp!


GWB and the Aliens are in on this together?!!!!!!

I need more tinfoil!

im sure it will boil down to that sooner or later...lol

 

[Dan]

Gotta file this one under 'who cares'. Get these people to go search for a cure for cancer, once they find that, they can find Amelia.

 

[waltky]

Amelia Earhart's bones found?...

Scientist ‘99 percent’ sure bones found belong to Amelia Earhat
March 7, 2018 - A scientific study claims to shed new light on the decades-long mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart.

Richard Jantz, an emeritus anthropology professor at the University of Tennessee, argues that bones discovered on the Pacific island of Nikumaroro in 1940 were likely Earhart’s remains. The research contradicts a forensic analysis of the remains in 1941 that described the bones as belonging to a male. The bones, which were subsequently lost, continue to be a source of debate. Earhart, who was attempting to fly around the world, disappeared with navigator Fred Noonan on July 2, 1937, during a flight from Papua New Guinea to Howland Island in the Pacific. The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, Earhart was one of the most famous people in the world at the time of her disappearance. A number of theories have emerged about her fate.

One well-publicized theory is that Earhart died a castaway after landing her plane on the remote island of Nikumaroro, a coral atoll 1,200 miles from the Marshall Islands. Some 13 human bones were found on Nikumaroro, also known as Gardner Island, three years after Earhart’s disappearance. In 1941, the bones were analyzed by Dr. David Hoodless, principal of the Central Medical School in Fiji. However, Jantz says that modern analysis techniques may have delivered a different result, particularly with regard to gender. “When Hoodless conducted his analysis, forensic osteology was not yet a well-developed discipline,” he explains in a paper published in the journal Forensic Anthropology. “Evaluating his methods with reference to modern data and methods suggests that they were inadequate to his task; this is particularly the case with his sexing method. Therefore his sex assessment of the Nikumaroro bones cannot be assumed to be correct.”

Amelia Earhart in 1936​

Hoodless used 19th-century forensic science and described the bones as possibly belonging to a “short, stocky muscular European,” according to Jantz. The 1941 analysis described the remains as those of a male around 5 feet 5½ inches. Earhart’s pilot’s license, however, recorded her height as 5 feet 8 inches and her driver’s license said 5 feet 7. Photos also show Earhart’s slender frame. Noonan was 6 feet ¼ inch. Jantz says the methods used by Hoodless underestimated height compared to modern techniques. Hoodless used three criteria in his research: the ratio of the femur’s circumference to length, the angle of the femur and pelvis, and the subpubic angle, which is formed between two pelvis bones. The subpubic angle is wider in women than in men. Jantz says the subpubic angle is the most reliable of Hoodless’ criteria, but even that is “subject to considerable variation, much of which was little understood in 1941.”

The scientist also compared Hoodless’ measurements to data from 2,776 other people, as well as studying photos of Earhart and her clothing measurements. “This analysis reveals that Earhart is more similar to the Nikumaroro bones than 99 percent of individuals in a large reference sample,” said Jantz. “This strongly supports the conclusion that the Nikumaroro bones belonged to Amelia Earhart.” Despite Jantz’s skepticism about the 1941 analysis of the bones, some modern scientists have backed up the Hoodless results. While some people are convinced that Nikumaroro is Earhart’s final resting place, another theory suggests that she met her end on Mili Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Last year, controversy swirled around a photo that was touted as providing a vital clue to Earhart’s fate.

https://nypost.com/2018/03/07/scientist-99-percent-sure-bones-found-belong-to-amelia-earhart/

 

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New search for Earhart plane takes off in '05

Mon Dec 20, 6:36 AM ET Top Stories - USATODAY.com


By Stephen Manning The Associated Press

At 17,000 feet beneath the surface, the temperature of ocean water is just above freezing, oxygen is sparse and currents are relatively calm.


In other words, ideal conditions for preserving an airplane that might have crashed into the depths nearly 70 years ago, according to marine explorer David Jourdan, who hopes to answer one of aviation's greatest mysteries: the fate of famed pilot Amelia Earhart.


Jourdan and his Maine-based company, Nauticos, plan to launch an expedition in the spring using sonar to sweep a 1,000-square-mile swath of ocean bottom west of tiny Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean.


It is the latest in a string of missions to learn what happened to Earhart when she, her navigator and their Lockheed Electra plane disappeared on a flight around the world.


"Things tend to last a time" in the deep ocean, Jourdan says. "Our expectation is the plane will be largely, if not completely, intact."


That is, if the plane is even in the ocean.


There is a host of theories about what befell Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan in 1937 as they made one of the final legs of their widely heralded flight.


Some have searched the sea, believing the plane ran out of gas. Others think she survived a crash landing but died on a deserted island. Another theory is that the Japanese captured and executed her. The conspiracy-minded claim Earhart survived and lived out her life under an assumed name as a New Jersey housewife.


This much is agreed on: Earhart and Noonan vanished July 2, 1937, as they approached an airstrip on Howland Island, roughly midway between Australia and Hawaii. They had taken off from Papua New Guinea, just 7,000 miles short of their goal to make Earhart the first woman to fly around the world.


A fearless flyer, Earhart set a string of altitude, distance and endurance records in the 1920s and 1930s, proving the still-young world of flying wasn't reserved for men. She captivated a Depression-era America eager for heroes, was feted by presidents and was compared to Charles Lindbergh. The press dubbed her "Lady Lindy."


The Navy launched a weeks-long search of 250,000 square miles of ocean around Howland and a nearby chain of small islands. No trace was ever found of the plane.


One of those going along on the Nauticos mission is Elgen Long, a former commercial pilot who has spent 30 years researching the mystery.


Long, 77, of Reno says he believes the answer to Earhart and Noonan's fate lies in their radio communications with a U.S. Coast Guard (news - web sites) cutter that was tracking their course near Howland Island. Using Coast Guard radio operator's logs, Long concluded that Earhart was perilously low on gas because a headwind was much stronger than she had anticipated. One of her last radio calls said she had only a half hour of fuel left and couldn't see land. "We can follow her all the way across the Pacific," he says of the radio records. "She ran out of gas just when she said she was going to."


This is Jourdan's second search of the area west of Howland. A 2002 mission was aborted because of technical problems. The same general area was searched in 1999 by another mission that found nothing conclusive. But Jourdan says that his new expedition, which will cost about $1.5 million, will use better sonar technology and more accurate information on where the plane may have crashed.


The shortage of oxygen and the fairly still water means a metal airplane likely would not have completely corroded, he says.


Any human remains would have long vanished, but Jourdan hopes to find clues such as Earhart's jewelry in the pilot's seat, or perhaps even Earhart's leather jacket.


"That would be eerie," he says.

If he finds it, Nauticos would plan another mission to raise the plane, which would become the centerpiece of a traveling exhibit on Earhart's life, Jourdan says.

Earhart's stepson, George Putnam, was 16 years old when her plane disappeared. Putnam, now 83 and living in Florida, says that he supports the mission partly because it could end the wild speculation about what happened to her. He doesn't mind if Nauticos salvages the plane.

"Let's see what happens," Putnam says.

To Long, it could be his last chance to solve one of the 20th-century's biggest mysteries.

"We need the true story of what happened," he says. "The history we read needs to be correct."

Just read where her bones have been identified where she was buried in the 40s.