Posted on 12/17/2010 12:46:01 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
US aircraft history buffs are hopeful that tiny bones along with artefacts from the 1930s found on a remote Pacific island may reveal the fate of pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart. In one of aviation's most enduring mysteries, Earhart took off from Lae, in what is now Papua New Guinea, while attempting to circumnavigate the globe via the equator in 1937 and was never seen again.
A massive search at the time failed to find the flyer and her navigator Fred Noonan, who were assumed to have died after ditching their Lockheed Electra aircraft in the ocean, according to the Amelia Earhart Museum.
Now aviation enthusiasts from US-based group The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) say they have evidence suggesting the pair made it safely to Nikumaroro Island in Kiribati and lived as castaways.
TIGHAR executive director Rick Gillespie said the group, which has carried out 10 expeditions to Nikumaroro over the past 22 years, found three small bone fragments on the uninhabited island earlier this year.
Gillespie said the bones appeared to be part of a human finger, although they could also be from a turtle, and had been sent to the Molecular Science Laboratories at Oklahoma University for DNA analysis.
"We're very hopeful that this will produce the result we're looking for," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Thursday.
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A partial skeleton of a Caucasian woman of her height was discovered on that island in 1940 along with various equipment that she was known to have with her. As mysteries go this one is not very mysterious.
“It looks like Harpo may be the originator of the “boob belt”.”
Except he did it for comedy, not “high fashion”.
A long cool woman in a black dress.
Which reminds me: My Dad was a young PBY pilot at the time, and frequently mentions that Noonan had a big drinking problem—NOT somebody you'd want as a navigator in the SW Pacific!
Either that, or Piltdown Man, Peking Man, or “Lucy.”
I would guess 3 - 6 days. They had no source of fresh water.
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: "This is the captain. We have a little problem...with our entry sequence, so we may experience some...slight turbulence and then explode."
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: (To the pilot) "Can you shave the vector?"
Hoban 'Wash' Washburn: "I'm doing it! It's not enough..."
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: "Just get us on the ground!"
Hoban 'Wash' Washburn: "That part will happen pretty definitely."
The Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress has a highly-detailed ink handprint of Earhart. Someone back in the 1930s collected handprints of famous people to see if there were any common characteristics. Her handprint is quite large. However, the Library of Congress has no turtle handprints. Those are down the street at the National Museum of Natural History.
I like it.
I wish I had more time.
Shiny!
Since I don’t go to Nevada since the unions re elected Harry again, I am betting $50 on the turtle.
Or Jimmy Hoffa.
Me too. Hotness squared
If Professor Roy Hinkley (Russell Johnson) had been with them, they could have built everything they needed out of coconuts.
My grandparent’s home movie of Amelia:
——That narrows it down.——
They did not even say what species of turtle.
LOL! My response almost exactly.
I’m rooting for the turtle.
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