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Amelia Earhart’s Plane Possibly Found In Pacific

Posted: August 18, 2012

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The search for Amelia Earhart may finally be over. Researchers have found a field of debris near a small island in the Pacific and believe that the wreckage may be from the famed aviator’s plane.

The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery searched the area in June but ended their expedition with more questions than answers. After reviewing the underwater footage, however, the group believes that Earhart’s plane was filmed near Nikumaroro in the Republic of Kiribati.

TIGHAR Director Ric Gillespie said:

“It’s still very early days, but we have man-made objects in a debris field in the place where we’d expect to find it if our theory on the airplane is correct.”

Gillespie said that the team was rushing through the underwater footage to give the Discovery Channel something for an upcoming special on Amelia Earhart when they noticed man made objects deep below the waves. Gillespie said that the footage does not give definitive proof that Earhart crashed near Nikumaroro, but it is enough for him to gather his team and had back to the Pacific island.

Gillespie said:

“We were rushing to get at least some video reviewed so we could show something (on Discovery…. We don’t want to oversell this. It’s more evidence. It is where it should be, and that is encouraging… If it does appear to be airplane wreckage, it becomes figuring out how to go back and look at it.”

Amelia Earhart was trying to circumnavigate the globe in 1937 with her navigator Fred Noonan. The pair left New Guinea on July 2nd, 1937, and were never seen again.

Do you think the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery has found Amelia Earhart’s plane?



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  2. Douglas Westfall
    Aug 19, 2012

    Amelia's Lockheed Electra was within 75 miles of her target Howland Island when her radio cut out. Then the US sent nine ships, 66 aircraft, and well over 3,000 sailors and airmen. They covered well over 250,000 sq. miles of open sea and every island within a 650 mile radius of Howland.

    US CGC Itasca Chief Radioman Leo Bellarts 30, was on watch that morning and said: "In the early morning, signals came in pretty good. I actually did go outside and stand right out the radio shack and thought I would hear a motor any second. Her voice was loud and clear; sounded frantic on her last transmission. Then it cut off."

    Amelia Earhart was an American heroine, a record-breaking aviatrix, and a celebrity world wide; but Earhart was not a spy — she was a decoy.
    You Search for what you want to keep; you Hunt for what you want to catch.

    Taken from, The Hunt For Amelia Earhart.
    Douglas Westfall, historic publisher, Specialbooks.com.

  3. Mary Kelley Long
    Aug 22, 2012

    I believe there are very interesting conjectures on this mystery the released FBI files and alleged conspiracy books tell a lot, the more you ask the less likely you will find the simple answer especially the radio alerts , the charts, the time during which the Japanese were setting up camps, why?… To take over what? A real conundrum… The military testimonials… The Micronesian testimonials… A real enigma… I'm with you…