New Clue for Amelia Earhart by Oonjerah

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New Clue for Amelia Earhart

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UPDATED: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 03:41
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012 6:48 PM

Amelia Earhart search: A new clue =>
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-amelia-earhart-h
illary-clinton-20120320,0,5096613.story

"A finger bone fragment, DNA samples, a photo showing a wheel protruding from water.
Amelia Earhart disappeared 75 years ago, but the clues continue to surface.

"On Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is set to meet with historians and
scientists as a new hunt is launched for the wreckage of Earhart's Lockheed Electra plane.

"The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery will begin the search in June,
according to the Associated Press, off the remote South Pacific island of Nikumaroro,
in the nation of Kiribati."

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012 8:14 PM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important

Hello,

When I was a child, before Supermarket Tabloids turned almost entirely to celebrity scandal, Amelia Earhart was periodically found alive and well on some desert Island.

It would be nice to find out where she really lay, and put the endcap on her life story.

--Anthony

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Tuesday, March 20, 2012 8:27 PM

PHOENIXROSE

You think you know--what's to come, what you are. You haven't even begun.

I always heard that remains were found on an island a few years after she disappeared, along with a woman's shoe and a few other artifacts. Oh, and bits of airplane equipment. There's a reef near the island that could have served as an emergency landing strip, as well. This island is commonly believed to be Amelia Earhart's final resting place. Unfortunately, the island is also home to coconut crabs, which carried a lot of the bones away before DNA testing was developed. If this news means that some bone fragments survived, that would be cool.

What reason had proved best ceased to look absurd to the eye, which shows how idle it is to think anything ridiculous except what is wrong.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012 3:41 AM

CAVETROLL

The island is called Nikumaroro. (sp?) TIGHAR has been pursuing digs and searches of the surrounding reef and lagoon for at least 18 years. There's lots of circumstantial evidence, but no "any idiot" artifact that would conclusively prove it was Earhart's landing site. An artifact that they feel would prove their case would be one of the two engines on the plane with their associated serial numbers, The planes data plates, or physical remains that can be traced to Noonan or Earhart. There are also some unique pieces of equipment carried on the expedition that would provide confirmation.

There are enough items discovered that can date people living on the island in the right time period. Interestingly, the island was uninhabited during that time. Human remains were found and removed, but the remains have been misplaced. TIGHAR found a piece of aluminum with a riveted edge and a scrap of fabric that they confirmed COULD have come from a Lockheed Electra, but the NTSB lost the scrap of fabric that would have confirmed it was an Electra. The metal and rivet pattern are from an aircraft, but not conclusively an Electra.

Coast guard servicemen who were stationed on the island during WW2 have testified that they saw a crude rain catch on the island when they arrived. Their descriptions of the catch indicate it could have been constructed from the in cabin fuel tank of Earhart's plane. People lived on the island post WW2 and re-used anything they could find. Which would explain the lack of finished aluminum pieces.

Earhart is a fable from the modern age. For what she accomplished in an era when women didn't do that sort of thing, as much for the circumstances of her disappearance.

I wish her story had a happy ending, but I suspect it will not.

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