Former Intelligence Officer Believes He Discovered Amelia Earhart’s Missing Plane

Gateway Pundit ^ | Jan. 27, 2024 10:00 pm | By Anthony Scott

[Dan in Wichita]

Seemingly every year or two, someone claims to have solved the mystery of Amelia Earhart. Great way to get clicks.

[Rummyfan]

Are there human remains within the aircraft? Is there anything to compare with for DNA testing?

[Red Badger]

It’s 16,000 feet deep........................

[Semper Vigilantis]

Agreed. The Earhart story is a lesson to all aspiring aviators that taking shortcuts and not being familiar with your equipment can be fatal.

[Rummyfan]

I think it said 5,000 meters?

And that is DEEP. Wow.

[Semper Vigilantis]

That image looks like a swept wing, if a plane at all.

[6ppc]

More likely sold before the commercial real estate crash and had plenty of cash to support his hobby.

[rlmorel]

And also that even if you don't take shortcuts and do everything right, it can STILL be fatal.

So it never hurts to improve your chances by doing everything in your power to minimize anything you DO have control over.

When I was a Plane Captain aboard the USS JFK, it was illustrative to watch the pilots doing their pre-flight inspection of the plane.

Some of them would literally kick the tires as they slowly walked around the plane. They would do things that to outside observers would look like they were doing a real pre-flight, but it was apparent that they were a thousand miles away, thinking of home or whatever.

We did have one pilot that stuck out, a great guy who was a Lieutenant at the time, but went to Flight Test school and came back to our squadron with an orange flight suit he wore ever after, a privilege I guess.

He would turn out in later years, long after I was gone, to be the all-time Carrier trap leader for a period of time in the US Navy. I saw an article online that had this picture of him as a Commander around that time:

Funny. He still looks exactly the same there as he did when I served with him.

But the thing about him that stuck out was, when he did his pre-flight inspections, he did it like he really meant it.

When he looked in the tailpipe for cracks, he didn't just shine his light in, do a cursory look, and continue on. He spent time there, pointing his light up near the turbine, circling it, and all the way back, the way a Plane Captain would.

To me, that meant quality.

[Scrambler Bob]

I view any story about an aviator of any sex who flew long distances across water prior to WWII
= = =

Check out Clyde Pangborn. He did not disappear.

https://www.historylink.org/File/7495

https://www.historynet.com/clyde-pangborn-and-hugh-herndon-jr-first-to-fly-nonstop-across-the-pacific/

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember all those claims from back then, even that she was executed by the Japanese. One even claimed her aircraft was found crashed in Canada.

Others claimed she never actually flew the aircraft but was there just for photo purposes.

[rlmorel]

Ah, yes...I am familiar with that story...thanks for the link.

My point was, the only reason Amelia Earhart’s disappearance was viewed as a great mystery was because she was a woman.

If a guy tried it and disappeared, people would have shrugged their shoulders and said he was lost trying to do something dangerous.

No mystery there.

[bgill]

plans to do a secondary search in the near future

Somehow all these "near future" extends to years and years and everyone forgets about it. If he believed it really was the plane, every billionaire would be throwing money at a project just to get their name in the headlines by next week.

[bgill]

Is it wrong to laugh?

[bgill]

Bet the hog didn’t sign up for the gig.

[faucetman]

Its a whale.

Wings are wrong.

Wings don’t bend backwards, they break off.

[fso301]

If it is a plane, it appears to have swept wings.

[dynachrome]

Judge Crater and her eloped to Pitcairn island and lived happily ever after.

[DownInFlames]

So what. She was a lousy navigator and paid the ultimate price.

[Red Badger]

Fred Noonan was her navigator...............

[rbg81]

“The exact where of it almost does not matter to me.”

But it does to a lot of people, who do not really care to be constrained by your lack of interest.

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Gee...thanks for pointing that out. Until your post, I never realized that other people had different opinions from me.