Amelia Earhart

[chris_gerrib]

So, found via the highly-technical means of "dinking around on the Internet," I came across the Earhart hypothesis. Organized by an outfit called The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, this is an archeological effort to find out what happened to Amelia Earhart, whose plane was lost during an attempt to circumnavigate the globe in 1937.

Basically, Earhart was trying to find Howland Island, a critical refueling stop. She missed, and her plane was lost. The folks at TIGHAR have been doing archaeological work on Nikumaroro, formerly Gardner Island, which is one of the few places Earhart might have landed on. They've found some tantalizing evidence.

Presented for your consideration...

Comments

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

I dunno about tantalizing; sounds pretty damn straightforward to me! I mean, is there a better theory? I'd heard she was captured by the Japs, but no one seemed to have any real evidence for it...

[chris-gerrib.livejournal.com]

1) There's some dispute as to whether the post-crash radio transmissions were actually made by Earhart. That would open the door to an open-ocean ditching.

2) Per wikipedia and the link, the island was at least overflown a few days after the crash. If she was still alive, why didn't the searchers see her?

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

One small plane and two smaller persons are easy to miss - particularly if, as the article said, their craft was mistaken for wreckage from the Norfolk.

About the only way they'd have been seen for sure is distress flares, which obviously they didn't have.