Amelia Earhart mystery
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40515754

Not sure. :hmmm:

I doubt we'll ever find out 100% but my thinking is she died shortly after the crash (wherever that was) or died a castaway.

Despite the missing Japanese records I'd have thought somebody would have spoken in all this time.

The whole Earhart being captured by the Japanese theory has a few too many holes to be entirely plausible. It is known the US and, possibly, other Allied nations, were actively monitoring Japanese communications before and during the war. It seems highly unlikely Japanese troops would stumble upon and seize Earhart and not at least report the seizure to higher command and the report subsequently be intercepted by the US. If so, there would be a record of the intercept and it appears there is not; likewise, the Japanese were rather scrupulous about record keeping and even if a capture report were not intercepted, at lest some record would likely have been found by the US as they examined captured documents. It would be understandable neither the Japanese, who might have feared disclosing too much about their prewar activities or possibly inciting anti-Japanese feelings in the US, would want to make public the capture of Earhart nor would the US as it might tip their being able to intercept and decode Japanese communications. But it seems unlikely, after the war, for the US to continue to cover up a possible Earhart capture since there seems to be no real logical reason to do so. The whole theory just leads to too many unanswered questions...




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The real Mili Vanili
 

All I saw was the ABC news reporting this and showing a picture that sure looked like her sitting on the edge of the dock.

I believe Aktungbby's rare find too, but then I still believe in the tooth fairy and the Easter Bunny. :)

Good research there Aktung. :yep:

This is no more than another Al Capone's Vault. Just clever marketing and promotion to garner interest in a show.

Whatever they're doing, they circled a native standing behind something, like a small flag marker or similar, instead of the white man under the broad-brimmed hat, in that "evidentiary" photo...

Here are some reasons that the people in the photo are likely not Earhart and Noonan. The man who posted these is well versed in aerial navigation (possibly a former navigator himself, I can't remember) and has studied the case extensively. He has been a vocal opponent of TIGHAR's theories over the years.

Here is a video of a presentation he gave to some WWII aviators on the subject.

I think it will remain a mystery for all time, i agree with above posts that the Japanese capture her extremely unlikely and if they did as pointed out there is no record which makes that one a very weak case.

Diggin' the rest out for myself!!
 

THe official BS: https://earharttruth.wordpress.com/tag/howland-island/ The probable truth-with grains of 80 year old salt: https://earharttruth.wordpress.com/tag/saipan-witnesses/ The marines dig up two caucasian bodies on Saipan; the word from the top:https://earharttruth.files.wordpress...pg?w=303&h=379 < The Rest: https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/ResearchPapers/AEinMarianas.html In summary, the evidence for Earhart and/or Noonan dying and/or being buried in the Marianas consists of a number of eyewitness and secondhand accounts, together with a piece of cloth interpreted as a blindfold and two collections of human bones. The accounts variously have the woman identified as Earhart dying of dysentery and/or being executed by firing squad, while the man identified as Noonan is executed either by firing squad or beheading. Too many non-corroborative independent witnesses from Mili Atoll to Saipan incl. a US Lt nurse, Mary Adams https://earharttruth.files.wordpress...on-1.jpg?w=620 https://earharttruth.wordpress.com/tag/mary-adams-patterson/ corroborate her arrival and demise on Saipan. Whether by beheading, firing squad or dysentery: she was at Saipan. To marines, Burks and Henson . who allegedly dug up remains are of interest under the watchful eye of an intelligence officer :Griswold, who later denied being part of this grave digging episode, yet his language clearly suggests otherwise. He kept repeating, “I’m not denying what you are saying but I have to go on record that I can’t recall.”....Why not a simple grave-registration officer; and who makes good marines dig in a 1944 civilian cemetery in the middle of Pacific War anyhow??!!? And, in all of the accounts, why do the bones and the Electra keep disappearing:hmmm: Bear in mind on this routine 'round-the-world trip, coverage was provided from the top-FDR himself: From midpoint stationed USS Ontario and cutter USS Itaska:

Quote:

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who had made the arrangements for U.S. Government cooperation with the flight, immediately ordered the American battleship USS Colorado which was on a summer reserve training cruise near the Hawaiian Islands to proceed at top speed to the Howland Island area to assist with the search. Colorado carried three catapult observation planes that could cover wide areas of ocean.

That's a lot of government $hekel$ for a simply civilian flight project imho.:hmmm:

nope, you're all wrong..

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Amelia_Earhart

Eehhehehe
http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/ff/ff39d...3bcc25c26d.jpg

Well, if the body died of dysentery, I do not know what kind of evidence could be on the bones, to fast for that. Firing squad and beheading, will leave bones evidence. So, one just have to see how are the skeletons.

This one is the more believable one: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...d-earhart-may/

Years back I found this story very fascinating. First I read about her adventure and what could have happened to her in some Swedish books. later I read about it in some Danish books and their had two different point-of-view of what have happened to her and her navigator.

So I just left it there, with the knowledge that we may never know what exactly happened.

Markus

The 'electrafying' truth!
 

Always thought they were abducted and in 24th century found by Voyager!
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/...path-prefix=en

Lets look at some of the factors in this final flight

1. It could be said that she was not that skilled a pilot, more of a publicity grandstander (thanks to Putnam). Most of her recognition was because of her sex and not her pilot skills. Most of her records were doing something for the first time, not necessarily doing them the best. During her career she never won any competition where she was competing against other pilots.
2. She had limited experience with multi-stop trans ocean piloting, especially over the distances involved in the Pacific
3. She had limited experience with this particular aircraft
4. The aircraft was ill-suited for this type of trip
5. In order to make the fuel stretch, important survival and commo gear was removed.
6. The aircraft was highly modified and the modifications were untested. The added fuel tanks drastically altered the flight characteristics and she did not have enough time to fully test this.
7. She was unfamiliar with the radio navigation system which was brand new to the aircraft. Noonan, an experienced navigator, reported earlier in the flight deviations using this new equipment. Not good when you are trying to find a sliver of an airstrip in the middle of an ocean. This radio direction finding equipment was damaged in Darwin and repaired.
8. The RDF equipment on the Itasca could not tune into the frequency she was using so there was no back up radio navigation capability.
9. The aircraft, after being involved in a ground accident during the first attempt, was repaired quickly and there were no test flights to determine how the accident/repairs may have affected the modified aircraft.
10. Itasca was onsite and started the search north of Howland island where the signing was estimated as being. All told there was one battle ship, one aircraft carrier, and two Japanese ships involved in the search. After that, there was a privately funded search of the surrounding islands. All with no evidence of any aircraft nor personnel found.

Given all this, it seems most likely that her aircraft simply ran out of gas and crashed into the ocean.

As United States Navy Captain Laurance Safford wrote after his research of the accident, it was a result of "poor planning and worse execution".

Fool me once, fool me twice ... somewhere a long the line it's going to be my fault :yep:

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...-photo-n782016

https://media4.s-nbcnews.com/j/newsc...-2880-1000.jpg Vs: https://media3.s-nbcnews.com/j/newsc...-2880-1000.jpg < the Japanese version which 'crops' some of the aircraft which is 38' feet-the length of an Lockheed Electra-38' 7"....now on a barge! The two pictures are both very iffy: is that even a female seated on the pier? And who dares take photos if the Japanese are into secrecy and terror of Chammoro natives??:hmmm: Both the stamp and Dr. Amram's account both reflect an entire plane 'hanging on the far side of the ship" with the right wing broken: since the plane's generator for all the garbled 8 days of messages to Itasca and stations around the world: https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/ResearchPapers/Brandenburg/signalcatalog5.html until July 10 is in the right wing !!! this creates post-crash radio plausibility problems. Here's where the plane really is!:D Since both the 1935 Jap photo and the Navy archive file purported secret 1937 and all the second hand native witness from Mili to Saipan are innately undesirable... including 1944 US gravedigging marines!:O: let's cut it down to 3 Australian soldiers, engine numbers and one reliable radio operator on Nauru Island!:yeah: https://earharttruth.files.wordpress...llings-map.png https://earhartsearchpng.com/2016/01/16/earhart-lockheed-electra-search-project/ Of course I expect the bones and the Pratt & Whitney engines to disappear again...:doh: