New Guinea - Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan, en route to Howland Island, 2 July 1937

[Steely Dan]

Me too. I'm looking for it, but no luck so far.

Might be this one. Scroll down to top of page 14 and bottom of page 13.
http://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/2010Vol_26/whereelectra.pdf

Thanks, I found this too.

 

[Ransom]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57401423/photo-a-new-clue-in-amelia-earhart-case/

at about 57 sec. pause and you'll see what is believed to be the landing gear of AE plane. It's near the old wrecked ship.

 

[Steely Dan]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57401423/photo-a-new-clue-in-amelia-earhart-case/

at about 57 sec. pause and you'll see what is believed to be the landing gear of AE plane. It's near the old wrecked ship.

Thanks.

I'm convinced Nikumaoro is where she landed/crashed. I think there is more than enough evidence to support it. I hope they can find the plane because it may give us insight into what exactly happened. Was she shot down by the Japanese or have navigational problems or system failure of some sort?

 

[Steely Dan]

I think this answers all the questions we have about the upcoming trip and why they haven't found wreckage on the island. Evidently there is a sharp drop off on the reef that nobodies been able to get to before.

Finding Amelia Earhart - YouTube

 

[Ransom]

Thanks.

I'm convinced Nikumaoro is where she landed/crashed. I think there is more than enough evidence to support it. I hope they can find the plane because it may give us insight into what exactly happened. Was she shot down by the Japanese or have navigational problems or system failure of some sort?

I think she's there too. I hope they find some conclusive evidence. I wonder what happened to Noonan since everything seems to point to a female "remains"?

 

[Steely Dan]

He was either killed in the crash or perhaps went back for something when the plane tumbled off the reef. That's why finding the wreckage would be interesting.

 

[LinasK]

Thanks.

I'm convinced Nikumaoro is where she landed/crashed. I think there is more than enough evidence to support it. I hope they can find the plane because it may give us insight into what exactly happened. Was she shot down by the Japanese or have navigational problems or system failure of some sort?

Was Nikumaoro the new name for Gardner Island?? Hillary Clinton is funding the new investigation!:woohoo:

 

[Steely Dan]

Was Nikumaoro the new name for Gardner Island?? Hillary Clinton is funding the new investigation!:woohoo:

I don't think she's funding it, but is a spokesperson because the government is contributing a little.

Nikumaoro is a new name, I forget what the old name was.

 

[LinasK]

Nikumaoro is a new name, I forget what the old name was.

If so, I believe it's her!

Interesting that this topic came up, because just last night my husband and I were watching a program that concluded that most likely Amelia & her navigator crashed on Gardner (re-named N_____(?sp)) Island because she ran out of gas before she reached her destination of Howell Island. These researchers appeared very credible because they have been researching her for many years. They interviewed the woman in Florida who was a teenager and heard Amelia's distress calls back in 1937 and had taken extensive notes, and explained how the signals could have bounced off the atmosphere and that Amelia was using a very powerful radio to transmit. They found the coordinates from where her plan most likely went down- also they spotted a plane tire in a photo in that location of a coral reef-and spotted some wire under the surface, but their G.P.S. got destroyed by getting too close to their boat's propeller, so they couldn't go back to find it. They also found a skeleton whose bones were the same height Amelia would have been and artifacts like the penknife aboard her plane, a woman's shoe, a sextant, glass bottles for hand lotion, and a woman's compact, and an American-made metal zipper from the 1930's.(Amelia was known to carry make-up with her in case of press conferences). That sealed the deal for me...
They concluded that because of several campfires with fish and other animal bones that Amelia and her navigator died of dehydration or other natural causes.

 

[Steely Dan]

If so, I believe it's her!

It's funny. Soon after you asked if it was Gardner Island previously, HLN ran a story on this thing. According to their report it was Gardner Island.

 

[mysteriew]

Previously dismissed radio signals were credible transmissions from Earhart

Dozens of previously dismissed radio signals were actually credible transmissions from Amelia Earhart, according to a new study of the alleged post-loss signals from Earhart's plane.

snip.....The researchers plan to start a high-tech underwater search for pieces of her aircraft next July.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012...als-were-credible-transmissions-from-earhart/

 

[LinasK]

Expedition may have found pieces of Amelia Earhart's plane

By Thomas H. Maugh II Los Angeles Times August 20, 2012, 12:30 p.m.


Examination of high-definition underwater video obtained from the Pacific island of Nikumaroro has revealed what appear to be pieces of aircraft wreckage that might have come from Amelia Earhart's plane, according to researchers from the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, commonly known as TIGHAR. Although the pieces may not be readily apparent to the naked eye in the images, forensic scientists say they could be a pulley, a fender and a wheel.
The location of the presumed wreckage coincides with what appears to be a plane's landing gear sticking up from the water in a controversial 1937 photograph taken by British Colonial Service officer Eric R. Bevington three months after Earhart was lost. http://www.latimes.com/news/science...t-wreckage-20120820,0,6013116.story?track=rss

 

[LinasK]

By Thomas H. Maugh II Los Angeles Times August 20, 2012, 12:30 p.m.

Examination of high-definition underwater video obtained from the Pacific island of Nikumaroro has revealed what appear to be pieces of aircraft wreckage that might have come from Amelia Earhart's plane, according to researchers from the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, commonly known as TIGHAR. Although the pieces may not be readily apparent to the naked eye in the images, forensic scientists say they could be a pulley, a fender and a wheel.
The location of the presumed wreckage coincides with what appears to be a plane's landing gear sticking up from the water in a controversial 1937 photograph taken by British Colonial Service officer Eric R. Bevington three months after Earhart was lost.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science...t-wreckage-20120820,0,6013116.story?track=rss

 

[tlcya]

http://www.examiner.com/article/amelia-earhart-search-finally-yeilds-results-form-of-debris

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-...-amelia-earhart-seach/4211602/?site=newcastle

"What we see are manmade objects scattered over a...20 feet by 30 feet area, and there's some more material further on - it appears to be a debris field," he said.

"[It is] manmade objects. We can't say that it's aircraft wreckage yet. We're hoping that that's what it turns out to be, but it's in the right place.

"This debris is where we have calculated that debris should be."

Mr Gillespie has said he believed Earhart died a castaway in Nikumaroro, 644 kilometres south-east of Howland Island, the destination Earhart and Noonan had been aiming for when they disappeared.

I sincerely hope this mystery is one day solved.

I have always believed she died on Gardner Island (Nikumaroro) and if so, what a terribly lonely existence.

 

[Steely Dan]

By Thomas H. Maugh II Los Angeles Times August 20, 2012, 12:30 p.m.

Examination of high-definition underwater video obtained from the Pacific island of Nikumaroro has revealed what appear to be pieces of aircraft wreckage that might have come from Amelia Earhart's plane, according to researchers from the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, commonly known as TIGHAR. Although the pieces may not be readily apparent to the naked eye in the images, forensic scientists say they could be a pulley, a fender and a wheel.
The location of the presumed wreckage coincides with what appears to be a plane's landing gear sticking up from the water in a controversial 1937 photograph taken by British Colonial Service officer Eric R. Bevington three months after Earhart was lost.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science...t-wreckage-20120820,0,6013116.story?track=rss

The one piece definitely looks like a landing gear.

 

[coco36]

Did anyone see the Discovery Channel show that was to have aired August 19?

From the TIGHAR site:

The TIGHAR team will now be reviewing and analyzing all of new material recovered from the site. Putting the pieces of this historic forensic mystery together is being documented for Discovery Channel’s upcoming television special. Only until we have had thorough analysis can we say what we have found and that answer will be revealed Sunday, August 19th only on Discovery.

I'm not sure it's aired yet as the preview does not indicate a date.
http://news.discovery.com/videos/history-amelia-earhart-search-continues.html

 

[Steely Dan]

I haven't heard about it.

 

[Veidt]

I'm surprised that I haven't found this thread before! Amelia Earhart was amazing.

...In last Friday’s public presentation at American Memorial Park arranged by the Northern Marianas Humanities Council, a member of the audience’s second-hand story about Amelia Earhart’s ring piqued the interest of the Earhart investigators.

...

On their website, earhartonsaipan.com, the Earhart researchers wrote, “We are going to their old home tomorrow to dowse and use ground penetrating radar for the ring — which was reportedly lost during a rainstorm somewhere under the old house.”

http://www.mvariety.com/cnmi/cnmi-news/local/53887-in-search-of-amelia-earhart-s-ring

Snipped by me.

There are also reports that people in Saipan had her jacket: http://www.mvariety.com/cnmi/cnmi-news/local/53952-wwii-veteran-earhart-jacket-on-saipan .

The same site reports that investigators are still waiting for permits.

It's such an intriguing case.

 

[Steely Dan]

I'm surprised that I haven't found this thread before! Amelia Earhart was amazing.



http://www.mvariety.com/cnmi/cnmi-news/local/53887-in-search-of-amelia-earhart-s-ring

Snipped by me.

There are also reports that people in Saipan had her jacket: http://www.mvariety.com/cnmi/cnmi-news/local/53952-wwii-veteran-earhart-jacket-on-saipan .

The same site reports that investigators are still waiting for permits.

It's such an intriguing case.

Thanks, but I still go with the Nikumaroro theory.

 

[Veidt]

Thanks, but I still go with the Nikumaroro theory.

Ok - I should have made it clearer that I'm not leaning towards any of the theories. I think both of the main theories sound possible, just which one is the right one (or if something else entirely happened) depends largely on things we don't know for sure. I just put those links here in case people were interested. Even if she was not in Saipan at all, I do think that investigating all the claims that she was could help rule out this theory and figure out who the reports are about then.