Earhardt

[Salty]

TIGHAR: "The absence of her bones at the site proves that she crashed there and the crabs ate/removed all of her remains. This is the definitive proof we have been seeking."

Lol

 

[MauleSkinner]

TIGHAR: "The absence of her bones at the site proves that she crashed there and the crabs ate/removed all of her remains. This is the definitive proof we have been seeking."

I would think the word of the soldiers who said they buried the remains of Earhart and Noonan would be just as definitive.

 

[kyleb]

I would think the word of the soldiers who said they buried the remains of Earhart and Noonan would be just as definitive.

Cite, please so at least we know which Amelia disappearance story you're talking about.

 

[Skip Miller]

I have a lot of skepticism that Amelia's plane will ever be found... because it no longer exists IMO.

Consider that the RMS Titanic - a considerably more substantial hunk of iron and other metals - is projected to be rusted and bacterially eaten to oblivion in just 120 years... It seems a real stretch to assume that there is anything left of an aluminum plane submerged in shallower (likely to be more oxygen rich), much warmer (leading to more rapid corrosion) water. What would survive? a rubber tire?

-Skip

 

[kyleb]

It seems a real stretch to assume that there is anything left of an aluminum plane submerged in shallower, much warmer water. What would survive? a rubber tire?

-Skip

There's plenty of stuff in the Truk lagoon, for instance, and those things have been underwater for 5-8 years less than Amelia's wreck would have been. Many of the items at Truk are still very recognizable, including entire airframes. The counterpoint is that Truk is a protected lagoon, whereas Amelia's airplane probably went down in the open ocean and has been subject to more dynamic sea conditions.

 

[MauleSkinner]

Cite, please so at least we know which Amelia disappearance story you're talking about.

10th grade History class speaker.

But one of the Earhart threads around here had an expert who said the airplane, and apparently the bodies, were an impersonation.

 

[PeterNSteinmetz]

Let the teasers from National Geographic begin -

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/...zing-clue-marks-end-amelia-earhart-expedition

‘Tantalizing clue’ marks end of Amelia Earhart expedition’

“Inside the seawater-filled bin was a laptop-size silver sheet and a crumbling black fragment that was part of something that looked like a barrel.”

Ballard picked up the piece. “It’s not her plane,” he said. “It bends too much.”

“Yet it wasn’t what Ballard and his team were looking for.”

Sounds like that may be the end of the TIGHAR expeditions.

 

[Unit74]

TIGHAR: "The absence of her bones at the site proves that she crashed there and the crabs ate/removed all of her remains. This is the definitive proof we have been seeking."

Could be D.B. Copper's bones.... Jes sayin'