Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane likely located

Don’t jockey throttles for directional control.
How many hours of PIC. At the time of this accident?
Are you aware of the low strut work order the day of or the day before the accident? And the resultant work performed to remedy the problem?
Do you know what the approximate gross weight of the plane at crash time was?
 
I can't speak to her skill as a pilot, but I expect that a lot of her fame came as a breaker of glass ceilings as much as anything else - and that's definitely worth something.

Regardless, if this mystery spot has been known in photographs since 1938 I find it hard to imagine it hasn't been fairly well checked out by now; I'll be surprised if anything interesting turns up there.
Speaking to the Skills 1932
Just three months earlier, Earhart had flown solo across the Atlantic Ocean in this same airplane, which she called her “Little Red Bus.” Today, Lockheed Vega NR7952 is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum.
 
How many hours of PIC. At the time of this accident?
Are you aware of the low strut work order the day of or the day before the accident? And the resultant work performed to remedy the problem?
Do you know what the approximate gross weight of the plane at crash time was?
Do any of those things require abnormal technique on the throttles that has been recommended against?
 
is there a flight track of her flight across the atlantic? like a breadcrumb trail of the flight?

EDIT: and was noonan with her on that flight?
 
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It has been disassembled, crated, and stored in a government warehouse. Top men are working on it.
So, assumimg the G-men put a rush on it, we can expect a report in 12 years or so?
 
Are we consumed by her disappearance because she was such a stellar aviator and can’t believe it happened to her? Can’t we accept the fact that she was human, got lost and died along with her navigator? Better pilots than her (Fosset, Snort, Saint-Exupéry, Wiley Post etc.) have made dumb mistakes and died in their aircraft and are quickly forgotten. People need to quit funding these “searches” and accept it.
 
I think mostly there is such intense interest in finding her plane simply because looking for it involves persuading other people to give you money to travel to a beautiful island in the South Pacific and spending as much time there as other people's money will allow. Nice work, if you can get it.

If she'd crashed 60 degrees farther north or south nobody would be looking.
 
Are we consumed by her disappearance because she was such a stellar aviator and can’t believe it happened to her? Can’t we accept the fact that she was human, got lost and died along with her navigator? Better pilots than her (Fosset, Snort, Saint-Exupéry, Wiley Post etc.) have made dumb mistakes and died in their aircraft and are quickly forgotten. People need to quit funding these “searches” and accept it.
Obviously you haven't quickly forgotten about any of those other pilots either.
 
Are we consumed by her disappearance because she was such a stellar aviator and can’t believe it happened to her? Can’t we accept the fact that she was human, got lost and died along with her navigator? Better pilots than her (Fosset, Snort, Saint-Exupéry, Wiley Post etc.) have made dumb mistakes and died in their aircraft and are quickly forgotten. People need to quit funding these “searches” and accept it.
I'll venture that we're interested because it was a big story when she disappeared and all the conspiracy theories (e.g. captured by the japanese while on a spy mission) kept her legacy alive for decades. In addition, up to and through my childhood (maybe the mid-70's) aviation (and space) was still very cool and people looked at adventurous/record setting pilots as heroes and the like. So Amelia's disappearance always popped up in the news from time to time. Then people like Tigger got involved, again putting the story out there every year or two. All of that, and everyone loves a mystery.
 
Are we consumed by her disappearance because she was such a stellar aviator and can’t believe it happened to her? Can’t we accept the fact that she was human, got lost and died along with her navigator? Better pilots than her (Fosset, Snort, Saint-Exupéry, Wiley Post etc.) have made dumb mistakes and died in their aircraft and are quickly forgotten. People need to quit funding these “searches” and accept it.
people are curious. people, for the most part, also want closure, whether it's the titanic, mh370, the disappearance and reappearance of the McRib, or some chick who tried to do something several people had already done before (albeit successfully). I myself am curious about a plane that may be sitting on the ocean floor somewhere, whether it's her or the planes of flight 19 or dusty crophopper.
 
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