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sinkingfeeling

(51,460 posts) Tue Jul 24, 2012, 02:28 PM Jul 2012

Earhart searches find no obvious signs of her plane

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/24/earhart-searches-find-no-obvious-signs-of-her-plane/?hpt=hp_t2

A team of searchers looking for proof that Amelia Earhart crashed on a remote Pacific atoll 75 years ago were on their way back to Hawaii Tuesday without any concrete evidence to prove the aviation pioneer crashed on Nikumaroro.

In March it said new analysis of a photo taken three months after Earhart and Noonan were lost showed what might have been the landing gear of Electra on a Nikumaroro reef. And in June, it said a new study suggests that dozens of radio signals once dismissed were actually transmissions from Earhart’s plane.

The searchers said Monday that five days of underwater searches around Nikumaroro had not produced any obvious signs of Earhart's Electra.

"We have volumes of sonar data and many hours of high-definition video to review and analyze before we will know whether we found it," the group said on its website. "Due to the limitations of the technology, we were only able to see standard-definition video images during actual search operations. Now that we're examining the recorded high-definition video, we’re already seeing objects we want our forensic imaging specialist, Jeff Glickman, to look at. We’ll also be getting expert second opinions on our best sonar targets."

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Earhart searches find no obvious signs of her plane (Original Post) sinkingfeeling Jul 2012 OP

There is pretty solid evidence she crashed near the Solomans HooptieWagon Jul 2012 #1

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1. There is pretty solid evidence she crashed near the Solomans

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Tue Jul 24, 2012, 02:47 PM

Jul 2012

A Ww2 foot patrol found a crashed twin engine aircraft in the jungle. Overgrowth prevented identifying the aircraft, but an engine ID was recorded. Aircraft had been there a while, not recent. Hole in jungle canopy was round, indicating aircraft came in on a steep dive. Earhart's Electra did not have feathering propellors, engine failure or stoppage would likely cause loss of control, resulting in dive. Aircraft had extensive corrosion, suggesting low altitude flight over salt water. Not much air traffic in South Pacific prior to war, so a pre-war crash was rare. The engine ID number did not match any aircraft engines used in WW2, nor did it match any commercial aviation engines in the few commercial flights prior to WW2. The ID did match the type of engines used on Earhart's Electra. There is a group trying to relocate that crash site, and examine the wreckage, but they dont have the publicity or funding the Nikamuroo group does.

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