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Title: Is this Amelia Earhart's Plane? Sonar image could show remains of aircraft
Post by: mountaineer on May 30, 2013, 04:40:52 pm

Is this Amelia Earhart's plane? Sonar image from uninhabited Pacific island could show remains of aviator’s aircraft Electra that disappeared in 1937

A grainy sonar image captured off an uninhabited Pacific island could show the remains of Amelia Earhart’s doomed plane which disappeared in 1937.  The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) say the latest evidence could be a step closer to finding out the mystery behind her disappearance.

Earhart, then 39, was on the final stage of an an ambitious around-the-world flight along the equator in a twin-engine Lockheed Electra when she and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared.
The image was captured off an uninhabited tropical island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati and showed an 'anomaly' at a depth of 600 feet in the waters. ...

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/30/article-2333142-1A116603000005DC-37_634x551.jpg)
More at Daily Mail (U.K.) (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2333142/Is-Amelia-Earhart-s-plane-Sonar-image-uninhabited-Pacific-island-remains-aviator-s-aircraft-Electra-disappeared-1937.html#ixzz2UnLFjcjF)

Title: Re: Is this Amelia Earhart's Plane? Sonar image could show remains of aircraft
Post by: Oceander on May 30, 2013, 08:54:02 pm

Pretty cool!

Title: Re: Is this Amelia Earhart's Plane? Sonar image could show remains of aircraft
Post by: Lando Lincoln on May 30, 2013, 09:16:20 pm

I really hope this is it.  :patriot:

Title: Re: Is this Amelia Earhart's Plane? Sonar image could show remains of aircraft
Post by: NavyCanDo on June 02, 2013, 06:04:21 am

Is this near the island where recently they have discovered other evidence ? 

Title: Re: Is this Amelia Earhart's Plane? Sonar image could show remains of aircraft
Post by: Rapunzel on June 02, 2013, 06:50:55 am

Quote from: NavyCanDo on June 02, 2013, 06:04:21 am

Is this near the island where recently they have discovered other evidence ?

Not sure - perhaps you can figure it out, Nikumaroro is where they found some of her possessions not long ago......

Here is the map showing this location - it is #7

(http://www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/pacific/map_of_pacific.jpg)

and here is the map showing Nikumaroro

(http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Expeditions/nikuvp/route.jpg)

she was looking for Howland and never reached it... and this island is very close to Howland and if she ran out of fuel before reaching Howland looks like it would have been on the flight path.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Map_of_Kiribati_CIA_WFB.png)

Title: Re: Is this Amelia Earhart's Plane? Sonar image could show remains of aircraft
Post by: mountaineer on June 12, 2013, 12:43:11 pm

http://news.yahoo.com/group-denies-withheld-2010-earhart-131216892.html

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Group denies it withheld 2010 Earhart discovery

Aircraft group denies Wyoming man's claim it withheld 2010 discovery of Amelia Earhart's plane
By Ben Neary, Associated Press | Associated Press – 23 hrs ago..



CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- A Delaware aircraft preservation group denies a Wyoming man's claim that it found pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart's missing plane in 2010 but sat on the news so it could solicit him to pay for a later search.

Mystery has surrounded Earhart's fate since her plane disappeared in 1937 in the South Pacific. Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932, but many experts believe she crashed into the Pacific a few years later while trying to establish a record as the first woman to fly around the world.

Timothy Mellon, son of the late philanthropist Paul Mellon, filed a federal lawsuit in Wyoming last week against The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery and Richard E. Gillespie, the group's executive director. Mellon, who lives in Riverside, Wyo., claims the group solicited $1 million from him last year without telling him it had found Earhart's plane in its underwater search two years earlier.

Mellon's lawsuit says the 2010 search in the waters around the Kiribati atoll of Nikumaroro, about 1,800 miles south of Hawaii, captured underwater images of the "wreckage of the Lockheed Electra flown by Amelia Earhart when she disappeared in 1937."

The suit claims the aircraft recovery group intentionally misrepresented the status of its exploration to Mellon last year, telling him a discovery of Earhart's plane was yet possible if he supported the search. The lawsuit states Mellon contributed stock worth more than $1 million to the 2012 search and accuses the organization of engaging in a pattern of racketeering to defraud him.  ...

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