Posted on 06/07/2010 5:51:01 AM PDT by Daffynition
Tantalizing new clues are surfacing in the Amelia Earhart mystery, according to researchers scouring a remote South Pacific island believed to be the final resting place of the legendary aviatrix.
Three pieces of a pocket knife and fragments of what might be a broken cosmetic glass jar are adding new evidence that Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan landed and eventually died as castaways on Nikumaroro, an uninhabited tropical island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati. The island was some 300 miles southeast of their target destination, Howland Island.
"These objects have the potential to yield DNA, specifically what is known as 'touch DNA,'" Ric Gillespie, executive director of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), told Discovery News in an email interview from Nikumaroro.
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His family owned Gillepsie Dairy.....yummy ice cream!!
the Electra, did not crash in the ocean and sink, as it was assumed after the futile massive search that followed the aviatrix’s disappearance on July 2, 1937.
AND they know this how?...
The odds would be staggering that being lost and out of gas she would see an island and be able ditch without injury.
I think it was National Geographic that had a show about Earhart and her navigator. It detailed a number of Earhart scenarios, one of which theorizes that they were flying a spy mission for Roosevelt, and the Japanese captured them, questioned them, and executed them. Who knows?
Is it just me or does Amelia come off as an arrogant and smug little twit to other people as well?
I don’t know...but seems the MSM loves to be conned by attractive simpletons who could not ‘make-it’ in a real world one-on-one with real world odds and actual facts. Amelia was only a so-so pilot and a worse navigator. How other experienced flyers didn’t warn her off her exploit is beyond me.
Lindbergh was another one of these flying, featherbrain simpletons. Maybe he was a better flyer than she was but he sure wasn’t real level-headed, politically.
I think I reached the saturation point with MSM manufactured ‘heroes’ a very long time ago. However, the American eagerness for these dubious deities is ravenous…and public discernment in assessing their authenticity is constrained by nothing!!!!
“the Electra, did not crash in the ocean and sink, as it was assumed after the futile massive search that followed the aviatrix’s disappearance on July 2, 1937.”
“AND they know this how?...”
They DON’T “know” this:
“Gillespie and his team will be searching the tiny island until June 14 for evidence that Earhart’s twin-engine plane, the Electra, did not crash in the ocean and sink...”
Later in the article it specifically notes they will be looking for plane remnants in the coral reef. So I don’t think they believe the plane actually crashed or landed safely on land—simply that it MAY not have crashed in the deep ocean. If it did crash in the deep ocean, it’s hard to explain the various bits of evidence they have already found.
"Gilligan!"
ON a previous trip they found an aluminum panel in the lagoon that matched up about 90% with one the panels of a Lockheed Electra.
They couldn’t make a definative match because of a rivet pattern differing slightly or something, but the difference was explainable through repairs or something — but (always another but in this story) there was also no proof that repair had ever been made to the plane Earhart was flying.
Wish I could remember the whole story, it was from 4-5 years ago I think. Same group too I believe (Gillespie)
From my limited experience as a private pilot, that's been my conclusion also. The MSM adoration of her was boosted by her “first woman across the Atlantic” claim, which, as it turns out, she did with another (male) pilot. Yes, she was part of an important step in putting more women into the air. Let's just not put her on too high a pedestal. I wold also point out that she and Noonan likely died due to an overdose of ego. Backup plans are the name of the game, and she had none.
Ping
interesting...this will be fascinating if they do find DNA traces...
America has no royals, so we manufacture them from coast to coast. If they don’t come from a casting couch, they come from Camelot. ;)
Interesting!
Thank you.
Lindberg, despite his political leanings, had a better grasp on the technical limitations of aviation in his time frame than Earhart did. In 1937, long-range overwater navigation had not progressed greatly since the days of sail, the successful crossing of the China Clipper two years earlier with the aid of US Navy radio beacons not withstanding.
Earhart seemed to have, at best, a sketchy understanding of the technology available to her and, when that got away from her through carelessness, they were doomed.
>”Amelia was only a so-so pilot and a worse navigator.”
A few years ago, I saw on TV, a documentary on her life. Even the producers had to admit she couldn’t fly worth a darn and navigated even worse than that. Seems I want to say she had 3 or 4 major accidents, but cant remember the particulars. (I think most of them were on landing).
As some have stated, I think was a case of pandering to the press, to become famous for doing something she probably shouldn’t have been doing.
It seems like someone turned on the star machine and walked away. Now the machine is cranking out 'razzle dazzle widgets' ad infinitum none of whom can sing, dance or act. Americans are eating it up because when discernment has become a bad word, everything is ‘special’
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