Earhart's Electra Found?

TIGHAR ^ | 5/28/2013 | Tighar

[Deek]

TIGHAR is able to share details of our search for a conclusive answer to the Earhart mystery thanks to the international agreement signed in Washington, DC on March 20, 2012. The Republic of Kiribati, the sovereign nation of which Nikumaroro is a part, has granted TIGHAR the exclusive right to conduct research, search, and recovery operations related to the Earhart disappearance within the national borders of Kiribati. No one is authorized to undertake Earhart related search, recovery of artifacts or research within the boundaries of Kiribati (including Nikumaroro) without authorization from both the government of Kiribati and TIGHAR.

[tnlibertarian]

is a member of the United Nations with a vote equal to that of the United States.

I didn't realize Kiribati was a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Earhart has become like Bigfoot almost ready to be found.

[IbJensen]

That sukkah fly, man!

Jes ax ‘melia.

She fly all ober dis bitch!

[real saxophonist]

There's a girl named Amelia Earhart who does traffic and weather on 9News in Denver. A distant relative of the original Amelia Earhart and also a pilot.

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And a hottie...

[IbJensen]

Perhaps she’s being held as a sex slave.

[ANGGAPO]

Actually, Amelia was a ding-a-ling that could fly an airplane, not well, but she could fly one.

[JoeProBono]

[IbJensen]

I’m right. She’s being held as a sex slave.

[Yosemitest]

I've got some friends that were on Kwajalein Island for several years.
They told me they've been scuba diving over an aircraft that looks like an Electra
and they said that it's in clear water about 35 to 50 foot below the surface.

Check this out.

" ... According to these reports she came down in Mili Atoll, she and the plane were taken to Jaluit, then Kwajalein, then to Saipan where she and Fred were incarcerated and later executed by the Japanese. ..."

[LivingNet]

now we know who dressed up in the Bigfoot outfit

[Eric in the Ozarks]

‘61 Electra ?

[Hot Tabasco]

‘61 Electra ?

I don't think it was Carmen....

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We had a ‘61 LeSaber wagon.
Cool car.

[Stevenc131]

Earhart was a pilot of modest talent, but she was in over her head on her around-the-world trip. If she had been lucky and everything had gone right it was possible she would have made it (and she did make a large portion of the trip successfully).

The distance from Lae, New Guinea to Howland Island was over 2200 miles. It was well within the range of her plane, but even a few hours of spare fuel would have been eaten up pretty quickly if she didn’t home in Howland right away. There is some evidence that the antenna on the belly of her plane tore lose on takeoff from Lae. In any case there was a lot of confusion about which radio frequencies would be monitored, and when, and there was never any reliable two way communication established with Earhart after she took off from Lae.

The Navy had a ship (Itasca) stationed at Howland Island, and they heard Earhart on the radio as she got relatively close to the island, but it appeared that Earhart could never hear them (maybe that missing belly antenna came into play). It was a tough task finding a small island in the middle of the Pacific ocean, and with communication difficulties it would have been just that much harder.

The simplest explanation is that Earhart ran out of fuel and crahsed near HOwland Island. However TIGHAR has made a logical argument that Earhart could have headed southeast (to the area they’re concentrating on) after not being able to find Howland Island. The Electra that Earhart flew was a relatively rare plane and if any verified pieces of an Electra are found in the area Tighar is searching it would be hard evidence that Earhart made it to that area.

[SaxxonWoods]

An underwater camera would cost a lot less than $3mm, tell them they are wasting their chance at world fame and fortune!

[count-your-change]

Why not just ask Dale Jr. where the old Buick was hiding?

[Yosemitest]

My friends said you could ask any one from the Marshall Islands about it and they could direct you straight to Amelia Earhart's twin engine Electra.

[Yosemitest]

[lodi90]

Shake down is right. This guy has been running the TIGHAR scam for over 20 years.

[onedoug]

Here we go again, ping....