Amelia Earhart’s plane found? (3 Viewers)

[Optimus Prime]

Amelia Earhart made her final airborne radio call at 8.43am, local time, approximately one hour after she warned the Coast Guard cutter Itasca that she was running out of fuel and could not see her target destination, Howland Island.

“We are on the line 157 337," she said from the cockpit of her Lockheed 10-E Electra aircraft. "We will repeat this message. We will repeat this on 6210 kilocycles. Wait.”

She did not repeat the message.

Earhart's fate has been one of America's great enduring mysteries. Her doomed 1937 attempt to become the first woman to circumnavigate the world by aircraft spawned the most expansive — and expensive — rescue operation in the history of the US Navy and Coast Guard.

Since then, countless researchers, reporters, and historians have attempted to find out what really happened to Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, high over the Pacific on the day of their disappearance.

Advances in deep sea scanning tech — and a hefty $11m investment — may finally provide some definitive answers.

Deep Sea Vision, a Charleston, South Carolina-based company, believes it may have finally found Earhart's plane resting on the floor of the Pacific Ocean.

The company began scanning the ocean floor in September. Its powerful sonar, attached to a $9m submersible named Hugin, searched the murky depths, scanning in total more than 5,200 square miles of the region where Earhart is believed to have crashed.

Approximately 16,000 feet below the Pacific's surface, resting among the silt and marine sediment, Hugin's sonar spotted something unusual; the shape of an airplane.

“Well you’d be hard-pressed to convince me that’s anything but an aircraft, for one, and two, that it’s not Amelia’s aircraft,” Deep Sea Vision’s founder, Tony Romeo, said in an interview with NBC's Today show. “There’s no other known crashes in the area, and certainly not of that era in that kind of design with the tail that you see clearly in the image.”

Mr Romeo, a former US Air Force intelligence officer, sold off his real estate assets and poured $11m into funding the expedition to find Earhart's lost plane.…….

Amelia Earhart mystery gets new wrinkle after plane-shaped object found by sub

The potential discovery of Amelia Earhart’s lost plane could shake up everything we know about her disappearance, Graig Graziosi writes

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Optimus Prime]

Everything we know about the potential discovery of Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane

What happened to the pioneering American pilot, who disappeared over the Pacific in 1937, remains one of the 20th century’s most enduring mysteries

www.independent.co.uk

 

[tenordas]

I believe the deepest recorded is something like 24,000 and submarines have reached around 35,000 feet so the shape in question should be recoverable since it's sitting at 16,000 feet. Once that's done, there will be no doubt if that is or isn't Earhart's plane.

 

[Saintman2884]

Amelia Earhart made her final airborne radio call at 8.43am, local time, approximately one hour after she warned the Coast Guard cutter Itasca that she was running out of fuel and could not see her target destination, Howland Island.

“We are on the line 157 337," she said from the cockpit of her Lockheed 10-E Electra aircraft. "We will repeat this message. We will repeat this on 6210 kilocycles. Wait.”

She did not repeat the message.

Earhart's fate has been one of America's great enduring mysteries. Her doomed 1937 attempt to become the first woman to circumnavigate the world by aircraft spawned the most expansive — and expensive — rescue operation in the history of the US Navy and Coast Guard.

Since then, countless researchers, reporters, and historians have attempted to find out what really happened to Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, high over the Pacific on the day of their disappearance.

Advances in deep sea scanning tech — and a hefty $11m investment — may finally provide some definitive answers.

Deep Sea Vision, a Charleston, South Carolina-based company, believes it may have finally found Earhart's plane resting on the floor of the Pacific Ocean.

The company began scanning the ocean floor in September. Its powerful sonar, attached to a $9m submersible named Hugin, searched the murky depths, scanning in total more than 5,200 square miles of the region where Earhart is believed to have crashed.

Approximately 16,000 feet below the Pacific's surface, resting among the silt and marine sediment, Hugin's sonar spotted something unusual; the shape of an airplane.

“Well you’d be hard-pressed to convince me that’s anything but an aircraft, for one, and two, that it’s not Amelia’s aircraft,” Deep Sea Vision’s founder, Tony Romeo, said in an interview with NBC's Today show. “There’s no other known crashes in the area, and certainly not of that era in that kind of design with the tail that you see clearly in the image.”

Mr Romeo, a former US Air Force intelligence officer, sold off his real estate assets and poured $11m into funding the expedition to find Earhart's lost plane.…….

Amelia Earhart mystery gets new wrinkle after plane-shaped object found by sub

The potential discovery of Amelia Earhart’s lost plane could shake up everything we know about her disappearance, Graig Graziosi writes

www.independent.co.uk

Their have been quite a few outrageous, at times possibly plausible explanations or theories about the factors surrounding Earhart's plane disappearing: some have speculated that Earhart's circumnavigation attempt had a extra, ulterior motive in that she was secretly asked by the War Department to spy or take photographs of Japanese military installations, movements in areas of control in China, East Asia (it wasn't without precedent, in 1934, during an off-season goodwill trip to Japan between MLB All-Stars, a veteran. Red Sox catcher, Moe Berg, was asked by the War Department to "spy" essentially on Japanese harbors, military installations, factories, talk to high-ranking Japanese civilian and military leaders, journalists, dissidents, Berg later did black ops classified operations for the OSS during WWII.) Ive heard stories that the Japanese shot her plane down and took she and Noonan captive, interrogated them and convinced themselves they were spies, and had them shot and buried in an unmarked grave. Their was even supposedly "eyewitness" young Chinese girl who later in life swore the execution she saw of two Westerners were that of Earhart and Noonan.

Then there's the asinine alien abduction theories being peddled by Ancient Aliens episodes or some Pacific "Bermuda/Devils Triangle" dead zone they got stuck in and crashed.

My own personal opinion is that of the most logical, reasonable one and that is her Lockheed plane ran out of gas, because she tried taking an incredibly risky yet determined chance of reaching her goal to be the first woman to circumnavigate the globe and if failed disastrously and tragically.

FWIW, I do believe there remains a possibility, however slight, that the War Department couldve clandinestly asked her to take some photos or do a little hidden aerial espionage because by the late 30's, although Roosevelt and many senior administration members were trying to avoid a Pacific Theater war breaking out, in pragmatic terms, many top U.S. and UK intellegence analysts, spies knew that a major war between US and Imperial Japan was if not, highly possible, but very inevitable. Their was also a widely-agreed assumption or consensus that if another European-styled World War broke out between Axis and British-French Allied forces, at some future point, U.S. would likely be drawn into the conflict. Even 30-35 years before the attacks on Pearl Harbor, the War Department had begun devising hypothetical War Games strategies against then-existent or possible future geopoliitical adversaries or even allies, like Canada or the U.K.

In the first decade of the 20th century, a common, strategic military objective in the case of war breaking out between US and Britain, we wouldve invaded and occupied Canada as U.K. still dictated Canadian foreign policy up until after WWI. We even devised a war plan against Japan in the late 1920's and 30's called Operation Orange that foresaw a possible combined aerial/naval assault on our Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor.

 

[efil4stnias]

Seeing as I'm just in the middle of Monarch, I'd advise to leave that #%@ right there.

Walk away. (Well, sail away)

 

[Saintman2884]

Everything we know about the potential discovery of Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane

What happened to the pioneering American pilot, who disappeared over the Pacific in 1937, remains one of the 20th century’s most enduring mysteries

www.independent.co.uk

The mysteries surrounding Earhart's disappearance, death and her plane now likely being discovered may not exactly subside if and when deep sea explorers, wreckage removal teams, NTSB specialists, historians find, discover and pull her wrecked plane out of the ocean and discover that her and her co-pilot's bodies aren't there and more then likely, dissolved or were disintegrated by the sheer pressure of being buried thousands of miles underwater.

And what if some investigators or historians also determine maybe there's a possibility she and Noonan managed to escape the plane before crashing, how do we logistically devise a set of believable scenarios that determines where they might've gone if they had escaped the doomed plane if these scenarios are plausible.

They'll will always be questions surrounding this tragic event even if this wrecked plane really is the Lockheed-13 plane Earhart crashed in over 85 years ago.

 

[soupcan dan]

the fart bubbles gave it away.

 

[superchuck500]

the fart bubbles gave it away.

They always do

 

[0rion]

What we need is a billionaire with a crazy streak and a home made carbon fiber submersible.

 

[Sailorsaint]

What we need is a billionaire with a crazy streak and a home made carbon fiber submersible.

And a devil may care attitude towards safety.

 

[St. Widge]

What we need is a billionaire with a crazy streak and a home made carbon fiber submersible.

Elon Musk will be right with you after he gets done putting microchips in people's brains.

 

[2009ring]

What we need is a billionaire with a crazy streak and a home made carbon fiber submersible.

I was just thinking how fortunate everyone involved was that a few rich guys didn't head down there in a a souped up Volkswagen and an Xbox controller...

 

[LogeEndZone]

What we need is a billionaire with a crazy streak and a home made carbon fiber submersible.

Paul Allen funded the discovery of several ships, most famously the USS Indianapolis. So there is precedent without implosion.

 

[tenordas]

The mysteries surrounding Earhart's disappearance, death and her plane now likely being discovered may not exactly subside if and when deep sea explorers, wreckage removal teams, NTSB specialists, historians find, discover and pull her wrecked plane out of the ocean and discover that her and her co-pilot's bodies aren't there and more then likely, dissolved or were disintegrated by the sheer pressure of being buried thousands of miles underwater.

And what if some investigators or historians also determine maybe there's a possibility she and Noonan managed to escape the plane before crashing, how do we logistically devise a set of believable scenarios that determines where they might've gone if they had escaped the doomed plane if these scenarios are plausible.

They'll will always be questions surrounding this tragic event even if this wrecked plane really is the Lockheed-13 plane Earhart crashed in over 85 years ago.

If they did somehow get out of the plane before it submerged, they would have ended up as shark food. It's way too far from any land mas to have made it without sharks getting them first, especially with no idea how to tell which direction to go.

 

[bclemms]

Isn't her plane found every year or two?