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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Amazed they never made a monster movie with that thing.
LOL! very, very clever (doesn’t count Joe) Thanks for my morning laugh.
A friend of mine (deceased) studied her intensely. He claimed she was a lesbian which seems to be borne out by her lifestyle.
You mean a 'sextant'?
I've always heard of a 'sextant.' The site referencing the Discovery Channel clearly calls it a sexton (a term I'd always associated with the person taking care of a cemetery):
I have often wondered why AE took the southern route round the world rather than the northern route through Russia and Alaska. Wiley Post (the greatest aviator most Americans have never heard of) flew the northern route solo four years previous and had no problem with navigation (no 2500 mile stretches of open water).
Could be this girl then:
Murphy’s Law in spades.
I agree. I’m usually into curvy chicks, and she’s certainly the anthisises of that, but she had something, for sure. And that Lockheed was one great looking-plane for what that’s worth...
Isn't that a new movie by the guy who wrote Serpico?
It's called:
Greenwish - Mean Time
And tells the fictional story of America after the Greens get their wish and Americans become prisoners in an ecological and sustainable imposed-apocalyptic America.
Why bother they all taste the same?
Your point?
??? Quidam's turtle on the fencepost?
The point being that she looks like a lesbian. Not that theres anything wrong with that, of course.
Don’t forget the men in gray suits!
ping
“The point being that she looks like a lesbian.”
Agreed.
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