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Researchers seek Earhart clues in Alaska wreckage
Anchorage Daily News ^
| September 8, 2004
| The Associated Press
Posted on 09/08/2004 10:58:30 AM PDT by AlaskaErik
MISTY FJORDS: Aviator's fate might be revealed by comparison of aircraft parts.
KETCHIKAN -- Researchers trying to solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance searched for clues in the wreckage of a plane that crashed 61 years ago in Misty Fjords National Monument.
The researchers from the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, which has been investigating Earhart's disappearance for the past 15 years, went in July with archaeologists from the U.S. Forest Service to find the site of the 1943 Alaska crash.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alaska; amelia; earhart
To: AlaskaErik
Alaska? Pretty far off course.
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posted on
09/08/2004 11:01:37 AM PDT
by
Michael.SF.
(Paris Hilton is living proof that you need not be poor to be white trash.)
To: Michael.SF.
Gillam and Earhart had been flying the same type of plane -- the Lockheed Electra. The researchers wanted to know if parts from the Alaska wreckage matched those they had found earlier on a South Pacific island.
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posted on
09/08/2004 11:04:30 AM PDT
by
Samwise
(Kerry is a self-made man. He created a doofus.)
To: AlaskaErik
Oops, wrong Earhardt.
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posted on
09/08/2004 11:06:19 AM PDT
by
arichtaxpayer
(We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.)
To: Michael.SF.
Far off course, but then they are not going to Alaska to find Amelia's plane, they are simply looking for parts.
On Nikumaroro Island in the Pacific, the historic aviation recovery group found dados -- pieces of metal used to protect wiring in the passenger compartment -- but were unable to confirm the type of plane they came from. {Amelias plane?}
The group needed to compare the parts they found with original dados from a Lockheed Electra {the Alaska plane} to see if the wreckage could be from Earhart's plane.
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posted on
09/08/2004 11:06:30 AM PDT
by
Paradox
(Occam was probably right.)
To: Paradox
I don't know......parts or whatever. All I know is that my 100+ year old next door neighbor looks A LOT like Ms. Earhart...........................
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posted on
09/08/2004 11:14:47 AM PDT
by
ALASKA
(For every victim of terrorism, we should take out ten family members of the responsible terrorist.)
To: ALASKA
my 100+ year old next door neighbor looks A LOT like Ms. Earhart...Try this test: direct her attention to ants on the ground. When she leans over to look, if she pulls the top of her cane back, it isn't her.
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posted on
09/08/2004 11:21:23 AM PDT
by
LTCJ
(God Save the Constitution.)
To: AlaskaErik
MISTY FJORDSHmmm... haven't I seen her in some porno movies? :)
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posted on
09/08/2004 11:28:52 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(You do know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct, don't you?)
To: LTCJ
if she pulls the top of her cane back, it isn't her.Excellent idea!!! I'm heading over there right now!!
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posted on
09/08/2004 11:33:19 AM PDT
by
ALASKA
(For every victim of terrorism, we should take out ten family members of the responsible terrorist.)
To: AlaskaErik
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posted on
09/08/2004 1:34:00 PM PDT
by
UnklGene
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