Posted on 01/30/2024 12:24:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
An ocean explorer claims to have solved aviation’s greatest mystery by finding the wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s missing plane.
The American aviator’s aircraft vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 during her attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world.
Her unexplained fate has since become a source of widespread speculation as accident investigators were unable to locate her body or any wreckage.
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My Grandfather, late in life, said that when he was in the Navy in the late 1930s, that his ship was sent looking around the Pacific for her.
If you read the article, he has a blurry radar image of something ‘plane like’ on the ocean floor 5000m down. Hardly definitive.
But was Amelia inside the plane? She could have escaped the fuselage and floated to land.
sonar...not radar...obviously
I saw a TV report about this, to me it seemed a publicity stunt by the CEO Tony Romeo.
It could be a bigfoot.
I agree. But it’s a start.
To me there are more productive things to do than to look for this particular aircraft but as long as they do so with their own money then so be it.
Is she dead?
Wow!
My grandfather was a dentist in the US Navy. They sent him to Samoa for a year somewhere around 1936-37.
He hasn't found the wreckage. He's located a spot at 15,000 ft. where the wreckage "MAY" be located.......
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Probably a better football commentator than Tony Romeo
I guess $11 million doesn’t buy an ROV to check out your dubious sonar contacts.
Thanks Biden!
Did she...does she...have any heirs?? Did she have a will??
Tons of planes at the bottom of the Pacific...a dozen times people have claimed to have found it. The best theory and with the most facts is she got picked up by the Japanese and executed sometime later on Saipan sometime before the invasion.
It could be Godzilla
So the “lesson” here is that a woman got famous for getting lost and dying.
And men have been looking for her remains for almost 90 years.
Is someone going to slam me and say AE made the world a better place?
BTW - I seem to recall her adventure was something of a PR stunt she and her publisher husband dreamed up.
We don't know yet. After they raise the blob at the bottom of the ocean, we'll have a better idea.
The Delta Quadrant along with the rest of the 37s.
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