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After a quick google search, I wouldn't get too excited. TIGHAR seems has a long history of being close to finding Earhart without actually doing so.

They've managed to come close in 2010, 2012 and 2013, but there's still no conclusive evidence as to the fate of Earhart.

I'll take this one with a grain of salt.

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I just thought it was cool that it was on one of the islands we have in the game. Until they have a body, she will forever be missing.
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After a quick google search, I wouldn't get too excited. TIGHAR seems has a long history of being close to finding Earhart without actually doing so.

They've managed to come close in 2010, 2012 and 2013, but there's still no conclusive evidence as to the fate of Earhart.

I'll take this one with a grain of salt.

I second your grain of salt. TIGHAR always finds something to justify another expedition.

'Mainstream' opinion is that Amelia didn't have enough fuel to get that far, and probably ditched somewhere closer to Howland Island.
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Read the article. More conjecture based on flimsy evidence. Very convenient explanations for why no physical evidence exculpating this tale was found to be scrutinized.
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They made a documentary about this - saw it on Sky a while back. Sounded pretty unconvincing to me...
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I believe there are 2 discovery Channel shows on this. The 2nd was more convincing...my hunch is that they have likely solved the mystery. Apparently the US Coast Gd had a station on this island during the war. Human bones were discovered and sent to OZ or Kiwi where they were examined and it was assumed they were Amelia. Evidently the bones were thereafter lost.
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Read the article. More conjecture based on flimsy evidence. Very convenient explanations for why no physical evidence exculpating this tale was found to be scrutinized.

I did. Did you? I think you dismiss everything as conjecture.

That flimsy evidence is as good as they're ever going to find. Not saying that was definitely her, but it's a whole bunch of circumstantial evidence that points to her and nothing else has ever been found. It's the best guess.

I also like how you're dismissing the physical evidence in the article at the start of this thread.


What do you think happened? Aliens? Giant mosquitoes? Maybe chickens.
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Read the article. More conjecture based on flimsy evidence. Very convenient explanations for why no physical evidence exculpating this tale was found to be scrutinized.

I did. Did you? I think you dismiss everything as conjecture.

That flimsy evidence is as good as they're ever going to find. Not saying that was definitely her, but it's a whole bunch of circumstantial evidence that points to her and nothing else has ever been found. It's the best guess.

I also like how you're dismissing the physical evidence in the article at the start of this thread.


What do you think happened? Aliens? Giant mosquitoes? Maybe chickens.


http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Arch ... tement.pdf
At this time the analyses of the TIGHAR samples are inconclusive....

The bone fragment was very small, approximately one gram of material...

Because the bone is clearly from an animal, human or otherwise, additional PCRs were used to detect animal DNA more generally. These PCRs provided no positive results. The fact that these PCRs were unsuccessful suggest that either 1) there is no animal DNA in the bone, 2) there was animal DNA in the extract, but it was too little, or of too poor of quality, to reliably analyze, 3) the PCR design was ineffective for targeting the particular animal...

For now, the question of whether the bone is human must remain unanswered...

Draw your own conclusions.
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A new biopic about Earhart's life, starring Hilary Swank and Richard Gere, opens this weekend.

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Read the article. More conjecture based on flimsy evidence. Very convenient explanations for why no physical evidence exculpating this tale was found to be scrutinized.

I did. Did you? I think you dismiss everything as conjecture.

That flimsy evidence is as good as they're ever going to find. Not saying that was definitely her, but it's a whole bunch of circumstantial evidence that points to her and nothing else has ever been found. It's the best guess.

I also like how you're dismissing the physical evidence in the article at the start of this thread.


What do you think happened? Aliens? Giant mosquitoes? Maybe chickens.
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Because one doesn't necessarily take the flimsy evidence around one tiny fragment of bone and an unidentified skeleton (that subsequently went missing) as proof of Amelia Earhart's final resting place, that does not mean aliens, giant mosquito's or even chickens are any more likely now does it? Why is it the best guess? With the evidence available at the moment, why isn't the best guess the accepted story? Especially given the doubts around whether Earhart had sufficient fuel to reach Nikumaroro.

If that evidence is all they are ever going to find - then there simply isn't enough evidence to confirm one way or another.

The only interesting - and new - piece of news here is about the plane itself (from the first article). Now this really IS interesting. I certainly await the outcome of the expedition in June of next year with interest.
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It was interesting story, I knew it was somewhere in the Pacific, surprised she manage to land near an island or atoll.
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There are also stories that might fall into the urban legend category that Ehrhart's plane was found on Saipan when the US took it in 1944. The story was she set down somewhere else (forget where) and the Japanese captured her. They executed her and her navigator after interrogating them, but they repaired the plane and kept it at Saipan. Somebody in the American brass wanted to cover up the story, so they had the plane destroyed.

I think that story is a bit of a stretch.

The more likely two scenarios are that they

a) went down in the ocean and just vanished into the vastness of the deep like so many fliers did a decade later
b) went down on one of the small uninhabited islands, died of starvation, exposure, or injuries and the plane washed away in a storm (many hurricanes/typhoons have blown through that region since her plane was lost)

a) is the most mundane, but more likely story. Ehrhart herself was a terrible navigator and was also very stubborn. She may not have listened to her navigator until it was too late. In that part of the world being off course on a long flight by just a few degrees can turn out to be a death sentence.

A few years ago I heard the story they crashed in the Lagoon of Gardner Island. The debris found there could have washed ashore in a storm, so scenario a) might still have happened.

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It is very similar to the search for the Ivory Billed Woodpecker. Every decade or so the media gets flooded with a story about new evidence with some very credible institutions rising to the bait.. (read Smithsonian here) and then the story quietly dies out for lack of substantive evidence. The problem is that everyone really wants this bird to be alive and not extinct and that drives the events. It is pretty much the same with Amelia. She was an icon and we all really do want to know what happened to her. However, until I actually get to see the frigging bird, I am not going to buy anything. Same with Amelia. Find the aircraft and then give me a call. Until then....
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Truth is, I have always had a crush on her. Like the Babe, she was bigger than life. Aviators were the "rock stars" of the 1920's and 30's

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Very interesting story and so many possibilities. Taken on a long trip can be risky due to weathers and other problems.
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That flimsy evidence is as good as they're ever going to find.

Maybe it is and maybe it isn't. They're not done searching for her and something may turn up when least expected. But what they've produced to this point is unconvincing. Maybe not for you, YMMV. I'm totally unconvinced.
I also like how you're dismissing the physical evidence in the article at the start of this thread.

Ah, yes. The absolutely unconvincing physical evidence that may or may not be *animal* bone? Let alone human bone. Let alone Amelia Earhart's. That evidence? Yes. Please forgive the dismissal-clearly that's a cut and dry case you've got there. [8|]

What do I think happened? The mundane. They were lost in the vast reaches of the Pacific and we're unlikely to ever come up with their final resting place. 'Tis the story of countless other sailors and aviators.

Why romanticize or make up a story about a less likely end? There's no shame in being lost at sea. It's a far sight more likely than all confirmable traces of your body / aircraft / companion / clothing, etc. being whisked away in toto by a convenient Typhoon or having body parts carried away by coconut crabs.
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It's very difficult to prove that something did NOT happen. The only way to 'prove' she didn't make it to Gardner Island is to find her plane 17,000 feet down 100 miles away. And since that is unlikely, we will likely never know what happened.

Her plane is a lot smaller than Flight MH370 and the search area larger (although the weather is better).
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It's very difficult to prove that something did NOT happen. The only way to 'prove' she didn't make it to Gardner Island is to find her plane 17,000 feet down 100 miles away. And since that is unlikely, we will likely never know what happened.

Her plane is a lot smaller than Flight MH370 and the search area larger (although the weather is better).
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I agree. Personally I think she never flew to Howland Island. She turned around, flew to Graceland and married Elvis. They are both still alive and living on the moon. Prove me wrong.
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