Posted on 07/30/2009 10:33:38 AM PDT by BGHater
DNA Evidence on a Remote Island May Reveal the Truth About Earhart's Disappearance
It has been 72 years since famed aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared while attempting to fly around the world. But the mystery remains unsolved: Nobody knows exactly what happened to Earhart or her plane.
Now researchers at the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, or Tighar, say they are on the verge of recovering DNA evidence that would demonstrate Earhart had been stranded on Nikumaroro Island (formerly known as Gardner Island) before finally perishing there.
During May and June of next year, Tighar will launch a new $500,000 expedition, continuing the archaeological work it has been doing on the island since 2001.
"We think we will be able to come back with DNA," said Tighar's Executive Director Ric Gillespie, who is working with two DNA labs in Ontario, Canada, Genesis Genomics and Molecular World. "We were out there in 2007 under the impression that in order to extract DNA we would need to find a piece of a human, and we didn't find anything like that. But we did find what's best described as personal effects of the castaway that died there."
Check out this interactive to find out more about 's 2007 expedition.
During the 2007 trip, Gillespie and his crew uncovered early 20th-century makeup and two pieces of broken glass that match a 1930s compact mirror, among other artifacts. DNA can be extracted from such remnants as long as those artifacts aren't contaminated during the collection process. Unfortunately, in 2007, they were. Armed with a new collection protocol, Gillespie and his team will return to the site to seek out new items during their May 2010 excursion.
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I thought the going conspiricy is she was spying for us against the Japanese and was shot down..to die in a Japanese prison camp......
No, no, no. She was abducted by aliens. I saw it on Star Trek: Voyager.
Coincidence, I'm sure. Wonder who's funding the expedition?
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say the DNA reports will come back “inconclusive”.
I heard she was living Miami with Elvis....
Really? Because we saw a spot on PBS’ History Detectives about her the other night.
Total Coincidence, I'm sure. As was the show you saw.
No orchestration, no "pre-movie" buzz. Nothing to see here, move along.
As I’ve gotten older, she’s gotten hotter. She most definitely was a babe.
i’m more inclined to believe the “housewife in New Jersey” theory
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