Posted on 03/03/2011 10:06:58 AM PST by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
A diving team is being put together in Papua New Guinea to swim down to the wreckage of a rust-and-coral-covered plane in the hope of solving one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries - the 74-year-old disappearance of Amelia Earhart.
The 40-year-old American and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared while attempting to fly around the world in 1937 in a Lockheed Model 10 Electra plane and most theories say they crashed near Howland Island in the central Pacific.
She and her navigator had completed 22,000 miles of the journey when they arrived at Lae in New Guinea, as the country was then known, and just 7,000 miles across the Pacific remained before they were due to land back in the U.S.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I've been following this for years and this is the most probable scenario
More than a few plane wrecks in the South Pacific. Odds are against this being hers. It’s correctly stated that the Navy has more airplanes in the oceans the boats on them...
Marked.
But divers who have been down to the wreck recently claim that there is gold bullion on board - its extraction almost impossible, they say, because the plane is being guarded by a 20ft poisonous sea snake
okkkk........
What is it called now??, BTW- try to find WW2Marine-fought islands now using Google Map , good luck!
Interesting ... I thought that they had made it to the vicinity of Howland Island. If that is their wreckage, it would mean that they flew back well over 1000 miles to have crashed in that spot. Being so low on fuel, I am not sure if this is even possible.
At last, my first laugh of the day.
Some days that never happens, since
Jan of 2009. Many thanks.
Gold on board?
They were throwing OUT of the airplane basic survival items like extra water, life boats, a second radio, batteries, food ....
If any gold is found = This isn’t her airplane.
Well the US is down to below 300 ships
Perhaps they sprung a leak on the way and radioed, and Howland managed to pick up the distress.
Would fit with the evidence. She never said where she was, only that she was having difficulties.
What I find intruiging is the cast away, that they were unable to contact anyone from where they were.
Me too!!! I was really getting into the story until I read that little jewel.
Amelia Earhart on her Lockheed Electra in 1936 with Purdue University students.
Purdue University/Journal & Courier, via Associated Press
On a sidenote, in my getting long aviation career, I actually met and flew with somebody who knew Amelia. Apparently she was quite the b-—h. And Noonan the navigator was a drunk. That’s what I heard from a good source.
Agree. A lot of strange things about the whole Amelia Earhart story with all the manpower and ships in the area they could not find anything of her nor the plane.
I wish I had saved the link I read once, a guy made an argument that he did not think she was actually female and had to sort of disappear to save her legacy after seeing some of the pics he had of her it sort of made you go HMMM.
The western half is now part of Indonesia and is called Irian Jaya. The eastern half is an independent country now known as Papua New Guinea; its capital is Port Moresby.
I prefer the Nikomororo theory myself. This story about gold bars, sea snakes, and New Guinea sounds like a tabloid headline. There are undoubtedly hundreds of airplanes in that area, since there were major WW2 battles there.
I would like to see this mystery solved in my lifetime, but then I’d like to see a lot of old mysteries solved.
Lots of Jap `Betty’ bombers got splashed by our folks.
Hope this isn’t just one more of them. It was fun, though, when they found the Betty wreckage that Yamamoto rode to his doom.
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