More Amelia Earhart Story

[Bill Greenwood]

Sully was not only captain but I think he was doing the actual flying when this happened, as well as being the senior and person in charge.

[rwanttaja]

Sully was not only capitan but I think he was doing the actual flying when this happened, as well as being the senior and person in charge.

Just like no one ever talks about Henry Tingle Wilde....

Ron "I had to look it up, too" Wanttaja

[crusty old aviator]

Another one lost at sea, never to be found...

[martymayes]

Sully was not only captain but I think he was doing the actual flying when this happened, as well as being the senior and person in charge.

I think Skiles was flying the leg up until the impact with birds when Sully announced "my aircraft" and Skiles repiled "your aircraft."

[MFowler]

TIGHAR is now trying to generate enthusiasm for another trip to the island where they think Earhart and Noonan ended up, and where a skeleton they say is hers was found in 1940. Check out the announcement on their home page.

[Floatsflyer]

TIGHAR is now trying to generate enthusiasm for another trip to the island where they think Earhart and Noonan ended up, and where a skeleton they say is hers was found in 1940.

If TIGHAR believes this skeleton was found in 1940 and which they say is hers, then why do they need to go back and find it again 88 years later? And if TIGHAR has already been to the island, why didn't they bring the skeleton home with them at that time? I must be missing something.

Alright, my take's as good or better than TIGHAR's. Amelia and Noonan crashed in the Pacific. They were seriously injured and eventually drowned. Their remains, if any are left, are at the bottom, 20,000 feet down. No money raised and wasted. TIGHAR please do something else, something that would benefit some living people.

[CHICAGORANDY]

If memory serves, said skeleton was unearthed and boxed up, shipped off island and subsequently lost.

TIGHAR assures us this time that they have pinpointed the plane and also see Bigfoot and a UFO pilot talking to Elvis inside the cockpit. Now....... where's my checkbook? lol

The outfit is starting to remind me of the old goofy pseudo-investigation TV show "In Search of" with Leonard Nimoy - lots of searching.....very little finding. Wiki notes the show always started with the disclaimer -

"This series presents information based in part on theory and conjecture. The producer's purpose is to suggest some possible explanations, but not necessarily the only ones, to the mysteries we will examine."

[Dana]

In other news, Amelia Earhart's car was found today.




But no big mystery, its whereabouts were known until it was stolen on Friday.

[rwanttaja]

A TIGHAR press release has announced that satellite scans have probably located Earhart's missing car, in the shallows off Nikumaroro island, and has kicked off a $3 million fund drive to search the waters.


Team leader Biff Tanfaded announced the upcoming exploration, noting, "This is our best chance to find evidence related to Earhart's disappearance since our last vaca...uhh, grueling expedition to the South Pacific." "Due to a donation from Coppertone," he continued, "We have an extremely high-tech piece of search equipment...a key fob, exactly duplicating that carried by Earhart. We will activate the "door lock" function of the fob, and using state-of-the-art sonar equipment (donated by Banana Boat) we expect to hear the resulting "chirp" from the car alarm."

Ron "News at 11....the year 2211, actually" Wanttaja