US joins search for Amelia Earhart remains

[frogmarch]

US joins search for Amelia Earhart remains after new photo analysis

By NBC News, msnbc.com staff and news services

WASHINGTON -- Following new analysis of a photo that could show wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane, the Obama administration on Tuesday said it was backing a search this summer to hopefully solve the mystery of America's greatest female aviator.

"We can be as optimistic and even audacious as Amelia Earhart," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., to announce U.S. support for the expedition. "There is great honor and possibility in the search itself."

The search by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery will focus on the remote island of Nikumaroro, in what is now the Pacific nation of Kiribati.

The group believes Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan might have managed to land on the island, then known as Gardner Island, and that they could have survived for a short time after disappearing on July 2, 1937.

More: http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/20/10774735-us-joins-search-for-amelia-earhart-remains-after-new-photo-analysis

Because according to the article, President Obama and his administration are backing the search, I thought it would be safe to post it here instead of in Creative Speculation.

[Oldfolkie]

1. Another lost bit about her

AMELIA EARHART'S LAST FLIGHT - (Red River Dave McEnery) Note: I have read that this was the first song ever performed on commercial TV – at the 1939 World's Fair.


A ship out on the ocean, just a speck against the sky,
Amelia Earhart flying that sad day;
With her partner, Captain Noonan, on the second of July
Her plane fell in the ocean, far away.

cho: There's a beautiful, beautiful field
Far away in a land that is fair.
Happy landings to you, Amelia Earhart,
Farewell, first lady of the air.

She radioed position and she said that all was well,
Although the fuel within the tanks was low.
But they'd land on Howland Island to refuel her monoplane,
Then on their trip around the world they'd go.

Well, a half an hour later an SOS was heard,
The signal weak, but still her voice was brave.
Oh, in shark-infested waters her plane went down that night
In the blue Pacific to a watery grave.

Well, now you have heard my story of that awful tragedy,
We pray that she might fly home safe again.
Oh, in years to come though others blaze a trail across the sea,
We'll ne'er forget Amelia and her plane. Chorus

[frogmarch]

2. Awesome!

Thanks for posting the lyrics to the song about her. I wonder if it's on You Tube. I'd really like to hear it.

The first song ever performed on commercial TV - wow, that is so cool.

[frogmarch]

3. Here's the song on You Tube!

And it's sung by Red River Dave.

[Raine]

4. Interesting THANKS for posting this

unsolved mysteries always intrigue me.

[Lawlbringer]

5. Very glad to see that they're on this so soon.

Imagine what would have happened if we had waited longer to look for her.