Posted on 07/14/2007 9:40:23 AM PDT by blam
Finding out what happened to Earhart won’t change any lives, but it would be really, really interesting if the mystery could be at least partially solved.
Obviously “Pilot Error”. It always is especially when the pilot is dead.
of course, some on FR shall say, (H.W. :) Bush's Fault.....well, he was in the area, 7 years later. :/
Didn’t they find her scarf or something she was wearing on a South Pacific island not too long ago?
Don’t know about a scarf, but I do know that they found a shoe from Earhart’s era on some little islet in the area where she should have gone down. Of course, there was no evidence that it belonged to Earhart.
There are a lot of allied and Japanese planes on the bottom because a slight navigational error caused the pilot to miss the spec of land he was suppossed to land on. Even when the navigation was correct, the atoll might have been socked in with a thunderstorm causing the pilot not to see it.
What are they talking about? Dale Jr is just moving to Hendricks Racing not the South Pacific! :)
Is the step son the same George Putnam that was a fixture on Los Angeles news for decades? The age is about right.He is a great conservative.
There is a much, much higher probability that she went down in the water. Earhardt was known to be a headstrong person who didn’t listen to others. Before the flight she refused to learn how to use her radio properly, and she very probably just lost track of where she was and ran out of fuel. It’s highly unlikely she was able to land anywhere.
Sounds like Nancy Pelosi's office at the Capitol, eh?
That’s not where she landed atoll.
I once sat next to the last Mrs George Palmer Putnam (there were four) at a luncheon in the late 80's.
From WIki, nobody lives there now, but is was a Brit ‘colony’ for a time.
Sounds likea nasty palce to live.
Nikumaroro, formerly Gardner Island, is part of the Phoenix Islands, Kiribati, in the western Pacific Ocean, a remote, elongated, triangular coral atoll with profuse vegetation and a large central marine lagoon, located at 4.66° S 174.53° W. Nikumaroro is approximately 6 km long by less than 2 km wide. There are two narrow entrances through the rim, both of which are blocked by a wide reef which is dry at low tide.
I had a voracious case the crabs when I was in college and hung around with the bad kids. You learn that lesson quickly, let me tell you. Although, I WAS wearing shoes all of the time....
Well.....one of the most "hyped" mysteries of the 20th century, anyway.
Thanks for the info.
It seems like articles like this and other science/history articles usually come from the British press. Aside from the NYT science section on Tuesdays, the US press doesn’t have room for history older than last year or science beyond global warming hysteria.
Thank Zeus for the internet.
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