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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Facepalm
No, it has not.
All they accomplished was a fuzzy sonar image at what I recall was 10k feet.
That story doesn’t gel with prior accounts at all. I, for one, am highly skeptical.
Did Lindbergh make the world a better place?
Tony ROMO ? You dis a guy and can’t spell his name?
The sonar image seems to have swept wings but the Electra had straight leading edges.
I saw the image. It was a swept wing aircraft with no engines on the wing. It looked more like an F-86 type aircraft. Certainly not like a twin-engine straight wing Lockheed Electra.
Agree it’s like all the UFO photos.
My instant reaction when I saw the sonar image. That's not an Electra, which among other things was twin-engined.
How many airplanes crashed in the Pacific during WWII?
looks like a zero to me...
The guy who took the picture or the image?
Yes...
:)
“It was a swept wing aircraft with no engines on the wing. It looked more like an F-86 type aircraft”
So if it is an aircraft, sweep back wings, it would have been from the late 1940’s to 50’s. Since there would not have been the “fog” of war one would think it would have been a documented crash? Of course it would be up to the explorer to investigate that angle, it may not have been lucrative for him to do so.
They found something that looks sort of like an airplane then jumped to conclusions.
If you look the “e” is crossed out.
It does look like a plane. And the islands are in the middle of nowhere relative to major conflicts. However both were bombed by the Japanese early in the war out of concern an airport was/could be there. In 1943 the US built an airfield on Baker. And Amelia was headed for Howland when she disappeared, there could have been a strip. The idea that it could be only her plane seems to be pure speculation. I wish him the best of luck raising a lot more than $10 million to recover the plane. Presuming it's outside US territorial waters.
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