Posted on 10/31/2016 8:44:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Legendary aviator Amelia Earhart was attempting to become the first female pilot to fly around the world when her plane disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.
Last month, the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) proposed the theory that she landed her plane safely on a remote island and died as a castaway.
Now, scientists say a new discovery shows a striking similarity between the pilot and the partial skeleton of a castaway found on an island of Kiribati in 1940.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
How many times has this mystery been solved?
May?
no.
I read the article. It’s a very speculative and cheap report and contains nothing at all new about the story except that a researcher measured the ratio of the forearm to the upper arm of a skeleton.
Earhart’s fate and the Jack the Ripper murders have been “solved” about twice a year each, every year, for decades now.
Amelia Earhart was attempting to become the first female to fly around the world when her plane disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.
And boy were her arms tired!
400 miles off course seems like a long way for an experienced navigator like Noonan.
Maybe, maybe not. I’d like to see one of these mysteries definitively solved in my lifetime. I’ve always been a fan of the Gardner Island theory, but some people hate the guy who runs this outfit so much they can’t accept the possibility he may be right.
Even if she survived a landing on a S. Pacific island she’d be dead by now.
Yeah, he shoulda’ just followed the railroad tracks.
She’s dead, Jim.
I thought Janeway will find her in 300 years 75,000LY away...?
maybe Fox should put Geraldo on the case
“I thought Janeway will find her in 300 years 75,000LY away...?”
Yep and she’d voted democratic at least twice in ever intervening presidential election
A psychic told me she was near a body of water.
Yes! They should stick him in a Lockheed Electra and he should try to re-trace her steps exactly... and I mean exactly.
I’d like to think she’s with Gilligan and the Skipper too.
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