Is the Amelia Earhart mystery finally about to be solved?

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I hope they finally do find her, but what a great mystery after all these years!

 

Seems unlikely for many reasons, especially the gold, too much wieght to carry.

 

I agree, the gold seems extremely far fetched. I thought there was something a while back where some bones were discovered and there was a good possibility that the mystery might have been solved...haven't heard anything about.

 

Okla. scientist trying to help solve Earhart disappearance says soil, human waste to be tested :: The Republic

checkout this link reference the bones....this may never be solved but kinda cool if it would....the TIGHAR group has another expedition in the works for 2012.

www.tighar.org

Regards
Clint

 

That anti-freckle cream might be a lead, but I won't hold my breath until they uncover either human remains, or even more.

 

Technically, they have found human remains -- the aforementioned bones. DNA testing was inconclusive, but that doesn't mean they are not evidence. Short of finding a definitively marked portion of the plane or a rock etched with "Amelia Earhart Slept Here", this mystery will have to be resolved via an accumulation of circumstantial evidence. Therefore, there will always be some measure of doubt.

 

If they find identifiable remnants of the air plane that would go a long ways to answering some of the questions.

 

Here is another article on the subject that didn't make it into the "big news" cycle. I admit it is a pain in the arse to answer a question about your salt intake to read the article, but what the hey. It is on Live Science.

Goto:

Amelia Earhart Distress Call Details Emerge | LiveScience

 

The way I figure it, any big breaks in the mystery will be announced on the 6 o'clock news, not on a website or blog or "reality" TV show. My guess about the whole thing would be that the plane was unable to put down on the island, maybe came in and didn't have a nice sandy stretch of beach or shallow lagoon to put down in (I haven't seen the coastline of the island in question), so they ditched as close as they could, and it got hung up on the reef. Waves and tides aren't known to be too forgiving on manmade devices that encroach on their territory, and eventually the plane was pounded apart by the surf. Rust and tides would have destroyed and/or carried away any evidence, unless they stripped the plane for survival gear (seats, insulation, spars, etc). So those little bits (which would also have deteriorated/disappeared over time, with the possible exception of metal pieces...which might have been pilfered by traveling natives who thought it would make a cool addition to the hut back at home) would be about all that would remain. Its also possible that, after an extended amount of time, they would have tried to make a raft, and any metal remaining would have helped to strengthen the raft. Tides, currents, wind, and deteriorating physical condition would have stacked heavily against them. My guess is that they'll never be found.

 

I think the most probably explaination is that they were eaten by coconut crabs and their bones scattered

 

So, RA, you're saying that they had no phone, no lights and no motor car -- not a single luxury. Is that correct?

 

Yep. And only B&W TV with local stations.

 

Well, that's like Robinson Crusoe -- as primitive as can be.

 

Its just as likely they ditched at sea, in which case they will never be found.

 

Agreed, I need more to be convinced than a freckle cream jar.

 

A $2.2 million expedition that hoped to find wreckage from famed aviator Amelia Earhart's final flight is on its way back to Hawaii without the dramatic, conclusive plane images searchers were hoping to attain.

But the group leading the search, The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, still believes Earhart and her navigator crashed onto a reef off a remote island in the Pacific Ocean 75 years ago this month, its president told The Associated Press on Monday.

"This is just sort of the way things are in this world," TIGHAR president Pat Thrasher said. "It's not like an Indiana Jones flick where you go through a door and there it is. It's not like that — it's never like that."

Thrasher said the group collected a significant amount of video and sonar data, which searchers will pore over on the return voyage to Hawaii this week and afterward to look for things that may be tough to see at first glance.

The group is also planning a voyage for next year to scour the land where it's believed Earhart survived a short while after the crash, Thrasher said.

Earhart search returning to Hawaii without smoking gun evidence of plane discovery - Yahoo! News