Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) - piloted a Lockheed Electra and drove a Cord convertible. That right there is a great American story. She will never go out of style ... and people will never stop looking for her.
Posted on 06/21/2017 1:40:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The expedition’s destination is Nikumaroro, an uninhabited island some 1,000 miles north of Fiji. The members of TIGHAR have devoted the last three decades to testing what they call the Nikumaroro hypothesis—that when Earhart and Noonan couldn’t find Howland, they landed on Nikumaroro.
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The coral atoll is 350 nautical miles southwest of Howland, on the line of position (157 NW 337 SE) that Earhart identified in her last confirmed radio message. Up the northwest line, there’s nothing but empty ocean for thousands of miles. To the southeast are the Phoenix Islands, which include Nikumaroro. “If you don’t know where you are,” says Ric Gillespie, the executive director of TIGHAR, “that’s the logical direction to head.”
Nikumaroro, then called Gardner Island, has a reef flat where Earhart could have landed the Electra during low tide. More intriguingly, when the island was temporarily colonized in 1940, during the last gasp of the British Empire, 13 bones were discovered, shipped to Fiji, measured—and subsequently lost. The colonial administrator suspected they might be Earhart's, and the TIGHAR researchers suspect they know the site where the bones were found.
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That’s where the dogs come in. Human remains detection dogs from the Institute for Canine Forensics (ICF) have nosed out burial sites as deep as nine feet and as old as 1,500 years. “No other technology is more sophisticated than the dogs,” says Fred Hiebert, archaeologist in residence at the National Geographic Society, which is sponsoring the canines. “They have a higher rate of success identifying things than ground-penetrating radar.”
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“The dogs are not effective when the ground temperature is over 80 degrees,”
“The crabs are our friends,” says Hiebert... If their stash includes human bones, “that would provide the environment to retain those decomposition smells.”
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I think it would be really cool to finally find her remains. Quite the mystery!
They have a better chance of finding her remains than they do finding ONE journalist who isn't filled with anti-Trump hatred.
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) - piloted a Lockheed Electra and drove a Cord convertible. That right there is a great American story. She will never go out of style ... and people will never stop looking for her.
Amelia Earhart, D.B. Cooper, Jimmy Hoffa.
What difference at this point would any verification make?
The world has moved on without them.
Jackie Cochrane held more records and according to Chuck Yeager was also a better pilot.
"...piloted a Lockheed Electra and drove a Cord convertible..."
They have a better chance of finding her remains than they do finding ONE journalist who isn’t filled with anti-Trump hatred.
Vinnie and Mikey are driving the I-95 in Hackensack, NJ. Mikey sees smoking coming out of a landfill and says,"Hey, Vinnie...look it. Jimmy Hoffa's smoking in bed."
“Amelia Earhart, D.B. Cooper, Jimmy Hoffa.
What difference at this point would any verification make?
The world has moved on without them.”
Ditto !
I never DID understand this type of search.
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For some reason people are always mounting expensive expeditions to look for Earhart and promoting TV shows based on the search. Apparently this is a good way to make a living.
My brother and I grew up and went to school with him. His parents owned Gillespie Dairy. Yummy ice cream. :-)
Agreed only they are not reporters they are journalists and that is a yuge difference. (see the film “Deadline USA” for explanation)
What a novel approach. Who would have ever thought dogs looked for bones...
I thought it was a good episode.
For the most part, ST Voyager didn’t do much for me.
She may well have had one.
At this point, what difference does it make?
Let the old girl lie in peace!
I heard some bones were found years ago that could have been Earhart’s (they were the right size, anyway), but then they were taken to Fiji and lost there.
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