Well said! I think the chances of locating Bigfoot are much better than trying to find a lost 115 year-old pilot in the South Pacific who has been missing for 75 years.
Well said! I think the chances of locating Bigfoot are much better than trying to find a lost 115 year-old pilot in the South Pacific who has been missing for 75 years.
If someone wanted to spend their own dollars looking for the wreckage, then I’m fine with that just don’t use my tax dollars.
My guess is someone wants to make a new movie....Follow the money...
Aside from the purely academic status boost you’d get from saying “I found her,” what possible value is there in locating the time-worn remains of a woman who failed to achieve a somewhat ridiculous goal in the first place?
Every few years a cable network looks into things like this in hopes of getting a show out of it.
Then we all forget about her until the next time. Doesn't bother me one way or the other.
Maybe we need somebody checking on those "Minor Outlying Islands" and making sure they're still there and haven't been invaded ...
The only mystery to me is why would a company name a line of luggage after someone that took off in an airplane and never arrived at her destination...
Well said! Two comments:
1/ There are old pilots, and bold pilots, but no old, bold [and, if I may add] inadequately prepared, minimally competent and ill-equipped pilots. Sadly, Earhart was pushed into this for financial reasons by George Putnam, her husband. Noonan was a drunk, fired from Pan Am. Earhart was too lazy or disinterested to learn Morse and didn’t even have a telegraph key on board.
2/ As for the boys at TIGHAR: “A foole and his monie be soone at debate, which after with sorrow repents him too late.” Thomas Tusser.
Plane lands or crashes in ocean—if plane breaks up—either way it sinks and will be difficult to locate. Sea water is solvent to the human body. There’s nothing left of them in the ocean if thats where they ended up — most likely scenario.
It would be interesting to find out exactly what happened to them. I think the odds are high that they crashed or crash landed in the open ocean.
It seems like there should be enough clues to locate approximately where they went down. I know the navy vessel which had been trying to communicate with them, said their radio transmission became very clear and loud not long before they ceased getting anything.
Almost certainly they went down close to where the ship was tho they never saw the plane.
Must admit though this is one of my favorite Joni Mitchell songs.
Amelia - Joni Mitchell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6d2RG2Rl64
She is probably dead anyway....
Heck, they’re still looking for Judge Crater..
The people trying to find it are after one thing; fame.
The people trying to find her are after one thing; fame.
Ping
I have read a couple of times that Earhart was not a particularly good pilot. Maybe not a bad one but her lack of skills may have had a part in what happened.
I remember Chuck Yeager said Jackie Cochran was a much better pilot than some of the other famous ones. Jackie was the first woman to break the sound barrier.
In fact Yeager considered her an outstanding pilot.
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