Earhart's Final Resting Place Believed Found

[proud2BlibKansan]

Oct. 23, 2009 -- Legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart mostly likely died on an uninhabited tropical island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati, according to researchers at The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR).

Tall, slender, blonde and brave, Earhart disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937 in a record attempt to fly around the world at the equator. Her final resting place has long been a mystery.

For years, Richard Gillespie, TIGHAR's executive director and author of the book "Finding Amelia," and his crew have been searching the Nikumaroro island for evidence of Earhart. A tiny coral atoll, Nikumaroro was some 300 miles southeast of Earhart's target destination, Howland Island.

A number of artifacts recovered by TIGHAR would suggest that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, made a forced landing on the island's smooth, flat coral reef.

more . . . http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/10/23/amelia-earhart.html

[xchrom]

1. what a lonely place if it's true. nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. The giant crabs got her

How gruesome.

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Was Judge Crater there too?

[asjr]

4. That was the last place he was seen, but you know

how slippery he was. He might have made it out.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Judge Crater Disappearance Possibly Solved

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166191,00.html

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. Wow !!!! Thanks. That is one less mystery. Now, on to

the next one....why is 42 the answer to everything? ( per Douglas Adams)

[ipfilter]

28. You'll have to ask a sperm whale and a bucket of petunias.

[Robb]

5. The TIGHAR guys have been at this for a while...

I'm off to read, but if it's true, they deserve credit for solving a good mystery,

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. Just in time for the major motion picture release, too

Please stop packaging advertisement as news, Discovery channel.

[stray cat]

7. as long as they are not making up facts I don't have a problem with educating the public

while there is a related movie.

[naaman fletcher]

8. So is Discovery going to apologize now

For all the other documentaries they have done on her suggesting she was a Japanese POW, etc. etc.?

[naaman fletcher]

10. coconut crabs: HOLY SHIT!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_crab

[jaksavage]

11. Yummi Coconut crabs!

Toasted over an open fire, mmmmm.

[hootinholler]

26. Wel some people really like coconut shrimp n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. !

:scared:

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. Wow is right

16" long and 9 pounds. That's pretty big.

[Rosco T.]

24. BIG FRACKING HOLY SHIT!

[Cruzan]

25. Me too

That's where I went to after reading the article. Had never heard of such critters...

[Spazito]

13. I just watched a documentary on "The Search for Amelia Earhart" and...

there are at least 3 different theories as to what happened to her, this one being one. The shoe found was NOT the size Earhart would have worn, the skeletal remains disappeared well before Gillespie appeared on the scene and the information provided re the skeletal remains before they disappeared was very generic.

There is nothing new found by Gillespie to warrant, imo, the article by Discovery.

One of the other theories which is at least as plausible as Gillespie's is that she set down in the Marshall Islands and was captured by the Japanese who had taken over the Islands by this time.

It is a fascinating subject but this article seems to be appearing at this time to promote the movie coming out as opposed to being "new" material, imo.

[naaman fletcher]

14. really?

You mean, Discovery might push pseudo-science in order to get people to watch a movie or its own shows?

[Spazito]

16. Shocker eh! n/t

[tonysam]

17. I'll believe it when I see it

I think the original story, that her plane went down in the ocean and she and Noonan were killed, is the only plausible explanation.

[Spazito]

18. It is a fascinating mystery....

and the various theories, too, make for interesting reading. It may well be she did crash in the ocean after running out of fuel but that explanation is so 'mundane' I have no doubt the alternate theories will continue unless or until the cause of her disappearance is actually solved.

[saltpoint]

15. Amelia was amazing.

Recommended.

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. Oh, fer God's sake, we already know, by the ST: Voyager Documentary, she was taken to another planet

Why do people not see the facts when they're right before their eyes?

[mitchum]

20. I assumed that everyone knew he was buried in North Carolina

Ooops...I misread the headline :)

[dixiegrrrrl]

23. good one.

:evilgrin:

[jberryhill]

27. That was my first thought, too....

If there was a mystery, why didn't they just ask Dale Jr.?

[Morning Dew]

29. Phil Ehart is in Kansas

Yeah, I misread it too.

[Occam Bandage]

30. According to evidence found 70 years ago. What a timely report. nt