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Bones found on island may belong to Amelia Earhart
AFP via Breitbart ^ | December 16, 2010 | N/A

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: 1937; 1940; ameliaearhart; aviation; aviators; castaways; earhart; electra; frednoonan; gardnerisland; ggg; godsgravesglyphs; kiribati; lae; lockheedelectra; newguinea; nikumaroro; nikumaroroisland; noonan; papuanewguinea
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To: onyx

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.


21 posted on 12/17/2010 2:20:34 AM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: 21twelve

“It looks like Harpo may be the originator of the “boob belt”.”

Except he did it for comedy, not “high fashion”.


22 posted on 12/17/2010 2:34:31 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: spetznaz

A long cool woman in a black dress.


23 posted on 12/17/2010 2:48:37 AM PST by RushLake (Liberalism/Progressivism--Domestic terrorism financed by your tax dollars.)
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To: 21twelve
missing came up with numerous new rules, etc. One of them was Greenwish Mean Time

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!

24 posted on 12/17/2010 3:17:39 AM PST by Does so (Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Either that, or Piltdown Man, Peking Man, or “Lucy.”


25 posted on 12/17/2010 3:38:57 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: Rastus
I wonder how long they supposedly lived as castaways.

I would guess 3 - 6 days. They had no source of fresh water.

26 posted on 12/17/2010 3:43:53 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: Liberty Valance

27 posted on 12/17/2010 3:49:36 AM PST by Roscoe Karns
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To: BigCinBigD
LOL, when I read that, it made me think of dialog from the movie "Serenity"

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."

28 posted on 12/17/2010 3:53:09 AM PST by rlmorel ("If this doesn't light your fire, Men, the pilot light's out!"...Coach Ed Bolin)
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To: Jet Jaguar

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.


29 posted on 12/17/2010 3:59:22 AM PST by KingLudd
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To: 21twelve
Greenwish Mean Time

I like it.

I wish I had more time.

30 posted on 12/17/2010 4:02:35 AM PST by woofer
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To: Jet Jaguar
The dreaded coconut crab inhabits Nikumaroro Island.


31 posted on 12/17/2010 4:05:11 AM PST by NautiNurse (ObamaCare uses Bernie Madoff theory of economics)
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To: rlmorel

Shiny!


32 posted on 12/17/2010 4:11:37 AM PST by BigCinBigD (Northern flags in South winds flutter...)
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To: NautiNurse
THAT is one big cockroach!
33 posted on 12/17/2010 4:33:29 AM PST by WakeUpAndVote
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To: Jet Jaguar

Since I don’t go to Nevada since the unions re elected Harry again, I am betting $50 on the turtle.


34 posted on 12/17/2010 4:47:00 AM PST by hadaclueonce ("Endeavor to persevere.")
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To: sheik yerbouty
It could also be Judge Jrater’s..

Or Jimmy Hoffa.

35 posted on 12/17/2010 4:52:25 AM PST by Graybeard58
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To: 21twelve
Love the photo. Something about the way she looks always strikes me.

Me too. Hotness squared

36 posted on 12/17/2010 4:59:08 AM PST by atc23
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To: Rastus
I wonder how long they supposedly lived as castaways.

If Professor Roy Hinkley (Russell Johnson) had been with them, they could have built everything they needed out of coconuts.

37 posted on 12/17/2010 5:05:33 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: Jet Jaguar

My grandparent’s home movie of Amelia:

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DNP8g2R_4Z8M&v=NP8g2R_4Z8M&gl=US


38 posted on 12/17/2010 5:05:44 AM PST by Jeff F (austinaero; Phoenix11; WaterBoard)
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To: onyx

——That narrows it down.——

They did not even say what species of turtle.


39 posted on 12/17/2010 5:10:26 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 .....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: onyx

LOL! My response almost exactly.

I’m rooting for the turtle.


40 posted on 12/17/2010 5:14:02 AM PST by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993905/posts)
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