Is the Amelia Earhart mystery finally about to be solved?

[cavegal]

Is the Amelia Earhart mystery finally about to be solved? Diving team to explore plane wreckage at bottom of ocean

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1362628/Is-Amelia-Earhart-Mystery-About-Solved.html

A diving team is being put together in Papua New Guinea to swim down to the wreckage of a rust-and-coral-covered plane in the hope of solving one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries - the 74-year-old disappearance of Amelia Earhart.

The 40-year-old American and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared while attempting to fly around the world in 1937 in a Lockheed Model 10 Electra plane and most theories say they crashed near Howland Island in the central Pacific.

She and her navigator had completed 22,000 miles of the journey when they arrived at Lae in New Guinea, as the country was then known, and just 7,000 miles across the Pacific remained before they were due to land back in the U.S.

[FreeBorn]

Not likely, that area is peppered with American, Japanese and British aircraft wrecks from WWII.

Methinks the most plausible final whereabouts for Earhart and Noonan is Nikumaroro Island.

http://tighar.org/

Lockheed Electra, type Earhart disappeared in-
http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/aircraft/Lockheed-Electra/images/3-View-Lockheed-Electra.jpg

[FreeBorn]

The odds of this wreck in New Guinea being Earhart's are a gazillion to one. Our military in the south pacific used Lockheed Electras just like Earhart's during the war. We also had several other twin engine planes resembling the Electra from other manufacturers such as Beech.
The Japanese had at least a dozen twin engine aircraft types during the war, any wreck of which sporting 3/4 of a century of coral could easily be mistaken for an Electra, in fact they made their own Electras under license from Lockheed by Kawasaki before the war and continued to pirate the design during the war. These didn't just resemble Electras, they were Electras.
http://www.daveswarbirds.com/Nippon/views/d-Thalia.jpg
With so many aircraft shot down in this area during the war the odds of this one being the correct type to fit the Earhart mystery are slim. It is possible these people have found an Electra or a Kawasaki copy but the odds of it being Earhart's are pretty much zip.

[LC EFA]

Not likely, that area is peppered with American, Japanese and British aircraft wrecks from WWII.

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That place has some of the best WW2 wreck diving on earth. There are planes, bombs boats and countless other things scattered in the ocean around the country.

As well as some really prime reef diving and fishing.

Shame the country is so messed up in nearly every other way.

[TexasCop]

They're testing some turds now that will probably come back to be hers.  If that really happens, will they put the turds into a coffin and old a funeral???

[vesta111]

They're testing some turds now that will probably come back to be hers.  If that really happens, will they put the turds into a coffin and old a funeral???

Should that be interesting, as will the WBC show up to picket the funeral???

Perhaps if not Amelia's turds they will solve the mystery of what happend to Judge Cartor, Jimmy Hoffa  and some male named John Gault.

[LC EFA]

Should that be interesting, as will the WBC show up to picket the funeral???

Perhaps if not Amelia's turds they will solve the mystery of what happend to Judge Cartor, Jimmy Hoffa  and some male named John Gault.

Who is John Galt ?

[thelaughingman]

http://tighar.org/

Ew!  They're testing poop!

http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/Bulletins/59_DNAResearch/59_DNAResearch.htm

[NHSparky]

Concur on the wreck diving.  Chuuk was awesome.  Wake up, walk out of the bungalow, hit the boat.  Two tanks later, hit the beach, drink beer.

Repeat as necessary, and pretty damn cheap too.

One of the few good things about living in Guam.

[vesta111]

Ew!  They're testing poop!

http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/Bulletins/59_DNAResearch/59_DNAResearch.htm

 Yup Poop, seems to be a science unto itself.  It crosses the lines of all medical science.

Ever get a card in the mail from your doctor that wants you to use an enclosed card to send them a sample of your Poop?    Ever take your dog or cat to the Vets that wants you to bring a SAMPLE of their Poop to test for worms etc.

Old Poop is a growing business  people will dig into old outhoses all over the world to send fossilised Poop to buyers that resell the Poop to labs studying what ever.   There is a word for this trade but I cannot think of it at this time.

What better way to to study eating habits of those that lived 5,000 years ago, any diseases the may have had.  DNA samples can be taken from the Poop, tells us what foods were avaible at that time.

If you were a millionaire with everything you could want in life, how to buy you something you do not have.???   A nice glass covered case with a well defined turd from someone who lived thouands of years ago may be an interesting and expensive  gift.

[Rebel]

 

[Gina]

I kinda hope they never find out what happened to her.  She is one of those legends that I like to see keep going. 

[TexasCop]

I kinda hope they never find out what happened to her.  She is one of those legends that I like to see keep going. 

I saw her in a KMart last week, so I know for a fact she's still alive.

[NHSparky]

I kinda hope they never find out what happened to her.  She is one of those legends that I like to see keep going. 

You mean like Thelma and Louise?  "Let's just keep going!"

Yeah, until ground density overcomes gravity and you have about a -400G stop which turns you into raspberry jam.

[NHSparky]

I saw her in a KMart last week, so I know for a fact she's still alive.

No kidding?  I saw her doing a line dance in WalMart with Elvis, the Easter Bunny, and a smart blonde!

Just kiddin--everyone knows there's no such thing as a smart blonde.

[vesta111]

No kidding?  I saw her doing a line dance in WalMart with Elvis, the Easter Bunny, and a smart blonde!

Just kiddin--everyone knows there's no such thing as a smart blonde.

Yikes are you including men in that statement.???

[mamacags]

They actually found female Caucasian bones in the area she disappeared YEARS ago.  For some reason everyone ignores that though.

For example, in 1940, Gerald Gallagher, a British colonial officer and licensed pilot, radioed his superiors to inform them that he had found a "skeleton... possibly that of a woman", along with an old-fashioned sextant box, under a tree on the island's southeast corner. He was ordered to send the remains to Fiji, where in 1941, British colonial authorities took detailed measurements of the bones and concluded they were from a male about 5 ft 5 in tall. However, in 1998 an analysis of the measurement data by forensic anthropologists indicated the skeleton had belonged to a "tall white female of northern European ancestry." The bones themselves were misplaced in Fiji long ago and have not been found.

[Gina]

They actually found female Caucasian bones in the area she disappeared YEARS ago.  For some reason everyone ignores that though.

For example, in 1940, Gerald Gallagher, a British colonial officer and licensed pilot, radioed his superiors to inform them that he had found a "skeleton... possibly that of a woman", along with an old-fashioned sextant box, under a tree on the island's southeast corner. He was ordered to send the remains to Fiji, where in 1941, British colonial authorities took detailed measurements of the bones and concluded they were from a male about 5 ft 5 in tall. However, in 1998 an analysis of the measurement data by forensic anthropologists indicated the skeleton had belonged to a "tall white female of northern European ancestry." The bones themselves were misplaced in Fiji long ago and have not been found.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh cue the Twilight music