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...
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
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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.
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.
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.
Wrong island ping.
The skeleton of a white woman Earhart's height. The reports by villagers of the plane on the reef and the photographs by search parties. The triangulation of radio distress signals from that area. The heel of a mid-1930s woman's blucher (the style worn by Earnhart) with a Cats-paw heel, indicating it came from the U.S. The remains of a mid-1930's era compact of the type carried by Earhart. The remains of a mid-1930's U.S. made woman's hand lotion bottle. Plexiglass in the village of the same thickness, shape, and curvature of the rear window of Earhart's Electra. Multiple small pieces of aluminum used in the native village - aluminum with rivets of the type used in Earhart's Electra. The sextant box of the type carried by Fred Noonan. The parts of the pocket knife of the same model listed on the inventory of items on Earhart's final flight.
The list goes on.
There was a white woman of European descent, carrying mid-1930's, U.S.-made items of the same type known to be carried by Earhart - some, like the pocket knife and the sextant box, the identical models carried by Earhart and Noonan.
No other possible location comes close to Nikumaroro reef as Earhart's final landing place and Nikumaroro island as the place of her death.
The skeleton of a white woman Earhart's height. The reports by villagers of the plane on the reef and the photographs by search parties. The triangulation of radio distress signals from that area. The heel of a mid-1930s woman's blucher (the style worn by Earnhart) with a Cats-paw heel, indicating it came from the U.S. The remains of a mid-1930's era compact of the type carried by Earhart. The remains of a mid-1930's U.S. made woman's hand lotion bottle. Plexiglass in the village of the same thickness, shape, and curvature of the rear window of Earhart's Electra. Multiple small pieces of aluminum used in the native village - aluminum with rivets of the type used in Earhart's Electra. The sextant box of the type carried by Fred Noonan. The parts of the pocket knife of the same model listed on the inventory of items on Earhart's final flight.
The list goes on.
There was a white woman of European descent, carrying mid-1930's, U.S.-made items of the same type known to be carried by Earhart - some, like the pocket knife and the sextant box, the identical models carried by Earhart and Noonan.
No other possible location comes close to Nikumaroro reef as Earhart's final landing place and Nikumaroro island as the place of her death.