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http://io9.com/amelia-earhart-plane-fra ... 1652466086

A fragment of Amelia Earhart's lost aircraft has been identified to a high degree of certainty for the first time ever since her plane vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937, in a record attempt to fly around the world at the equator.

New research strongly suggests that a piece of aluminum aircraft debris recovered in 1991 from Nikumaroro, an uninhabited atoll in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati, does belong to Earhart's twin-engined Lockheed Electra.

Crazy to think she survived on that reef for a time. She'd have had to have constructed some kind of shelter. I don't imagine there's a way to get enough rain water, and the storms themselves would be killer. What a way to end.

Forgot what documentary it was, but the crabs on that island are very vicious. Once in a weakened state that would be a pretty awful way to go.

Hot or Not?

Alieberman wrote:Hot or Not?

Not hot with the crabs

Merkin wrote:Forgot what documentary it was, but the crabs on that island are very vicious. Once in a weakened state that would be a pretty awful way to go.

Holy shit! Coconut Crabs can grow to just over 3 ft. and 9 lbs. Fuck that!

Crazy...been reading about this Nikumaroro stuff for a while and it always seemed plausible. Would love to see her remains found and returned home some day.

I think they were back in the late '30s, but they turned up "lost" between the island and the research facility.

catgrad97 wrote:I think they were back in the late '30s, but they turned up "lost" between the island and the research facility.

oh yeah that's right i forgot I read that. they had a lot of bones that they found in like 1939 or something and they just somehow got "misplaced"

azgreg wrote:

Merkin wrote:Forgot what documentary it was, but the crabs on that island are very vicious. Once in a weakened state that would be a pretty awful way to go.

Holy shit! Coconut Crabs can grow to just over 3 ft. and 9 lbs. Fuck that!

Just reading the initial reports on wiki when the skeletal remains were discovered.

http://tighar.org/wiki/Bones_found_on_Nikumaroro

Seemed no shelter was found, and they said there was coconut trees on the other side of the island, but could not get there from the crash site due to impenetrable Demi Moore type bush. England spent 30 years trying to colonize that island, but there was never enough drinking water.


Someone did a study on the island and left a pig carcass and filmed it. Seems the diners were mostly strawberry hermit crabs.

Nothing new, TIGHAR just likes being relevant.

She died as a castaway on Nikumaroro Island, with her navigator dead on impact.

The only reason this case isn't closed is because her bones were lost in 1940 and will likely never be found.

Perhaps captured by the Japanese after all.

Merkin wrote:Perhaps captured by the Japanese after all.

Looks like it's not her in the photo

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017 ... dited-spd/" target="_blank

No idea why anyone thought that was Earhart. That could have literally been anyone.

Landing gear shot from 1937

Looks like a plane. But lots of planes go down, especially in wartime.

Merkin wrote: ↑Tue Jan 30, 2024 8:36 am Looks like a plane. But lots of planes go down, especially in wartime.

Doubt it. A look through this thread justifies
a high amount of skeptism.

Sonar image looks like a plane.

OK, yeabut, it looks like a 60's era swept wing jet more than a 30's era straight wing prop.

Kinda tough to suspend disbelief on this one.