Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane likely located

I don't know, if you have to use a submarine to find your airplane, perhaps you have a different problem than you think you have.
 
Daleandee said:
Well ... in fishing terminology, we got another nibble: https://www.foxnews.com/travel/pilo...ia-earharts-missing-plane-pacific-island-reef

"The bottom line is, from my interests from a child in vintage aircraft and air crash investigation, I can say that is what was once a 12-metre, 2-engine vintage aircraft," he told Popular Mechanics, adding the caveat that he’s not sure it’s Earhart’s.

:popcorn:
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So, he read the same books all of us did as kids and he watches Blancolirio.

It also cracked me up that he contacted the US and Australian NTSB and they didn’t care. Why would he think they’d care about a crash that happened before 99% of the people on earth were even born?
 
Palmpilot said:
Excellent article, thanks!

Perhaps prioritizing publicity-seeking over familiarity with the avionics was an issue that Earhart and She-who must not be named had in common.
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I'd bet they were counting on Noonan's expertise in celestial navigation. Everything else was considered secondary or tertiary.
 
The cutter Itasca radiomen's logs were classified. She went down in hysterics according to the XO and two radiomen.
 
FlightmechH3 said:
The cutter Itasca radiomen's logs were classified. She went down in hysterics according to the XO and two radiomen.
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Is this not them?

www.archives.gov

Radio Log of the Last Communications of Amelia Earhart

This is a radio log from the USCGC Itasca, a U.S. Coast Guard cutter tasked with supporting Amelia Earhart’s 1937 flight around the world. Leo G. Bellarts (listed as L.G. Bellarts in the log) was on post starting at 7 p.m. on July 1, 1937. In the log, communications with Earhart’s plane are...
www.archives.gov www.archives.gov
 
FPK1 said:
Looks like the search is a go, starting in October...

www.newser.com

New Expedition to Search Remote Sea for Earhart Plane

Team to inspect mysterious 'Taraia Object' seen in satellite images in Oceania's Kiribati archipelago
www.newser.com www.newser.com
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Key quote: "Skeptics say, however, that the image shows a fallen coconut tree, not a plane."

Also, TIGHAR doesn't seem to be involved. Have they already had their tropical vacation for the year?
 
GaryM said:
Key quote: "Skeptics say, however, that the image shows a fallen coconut tree, not a plane."
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But why did the coconut tree fall and why did it take so long to find the down tree?
 
Never have seen a Palm Tree with wings, much less nacelles although there are some large Coconuts around.
 
You’re more likely to have an encounter with Sasquatch/Bigfoot/Yeti than finding her downed Electra.
 
ionel said:
But why did the coconut tree fall and why did it take so long to find the down tree?
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Coconut crabs!

"Coconut crabs’ broad diets have even led some to suggest that the reason famed aviator Amelia Earhart was never found when she disappeared mid-flight over the Pacific Ocean in 1937, was because she was devoured by coconut crabs after perishing on Nikumaroro island."

Coconut crabs: the bird-eating behemoths thriving on isolated tropical islands | Natural History Museum

Coconut crabs are absurdly large, land-dwelling, bird-hunting crustaceans. But on their isolated island homes, their peculiar traits work incredibly well for them.
www.nhm.ac.uk www.nhm.ac.uk
 
FPK1 said:
Coconut crabs!

"Coconut crabs’ broad diets have even led some to suggest that the reason famed aviator Amelia Earhart was never found when she disappeared mid-flight over the Pacific Ocean in 1937, was because she was devoured by coconut crabs after perishing on Nikumaroro island."

Coconut crabs: the bird-eating behemoths thriving on isolated tropical islands | Natural History Museum

Coconut crabs are absurdly large, land-dwelling, bird-hunting crustaceans. But on their isolated island homes, their peculiar traits work incredibly well for them.
www.nhm.ac.uk www.nhm.ac.uk
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Clearly, they ate the airplane too!
 
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