Amelia Earharts aircraft found ... maybe

[Jemiba]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/amelia_earhart_expedition_team_says_FteFjDtxDmZLNXOZKexd0L

Short: An expedition led by Ric Gillespie, organised by TIGHAR (The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery)
has found a field of debris near the island Nikumaroro in the Pacific. The search was started there, because research is
said to have given clues, that this was the possible location of the forced landing of Earharts aircraft.

 

[Stargazer]

Hope they do find the remains and that the mystery gets solved at last...

 

[Gridlock]

Saw the NatGeo doc, if they did end up on that island then the bones found in 1940 were likely her's: the indigenous crabs are, umm, fast eaters.


Only thing it proved to me was that she may have been found if Americans could pronounce "Norwich"

 

[Michel Van]

to find real evidence, gonna be hard,
because island of Nikumaroro was from 1938 to 1965 a tiny british colony.
also during that time, the colonist must have found something of Earharts expedition...

 

[Jemiba]

IF they can recover parts of the wreckage, they have found, there may be the possibilty to find serial
numbers on them, that should be clear evidence, if they come from Earharts Electra. That's the way, the fate
of wartime pilots is made clear quite often, even if no human remains are found. It would at least end the
discussion, where the plane came down, although, of course, rumours about the actual fate of Amelia
Earhart may still keep on going.

 

[TomS]

So the latest "proof" of Earhart's whereabouts disintegrated pretty messily. One group of "investigators" (not TIGHAR) claimed they had found a photo that proved Earhart and Noonan were alive (and presumably captive of the Japanese) on Jaluit Atoll in 1937. They had a well-hyped special on the History Channel and lots of press coverage. Now it turns out the photo was originally published in 1935. Well, that's embarrassing.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/11/536620463/japanese-blogger-points-out-timeline-flaw-in-supposed-earhart-photo

 

[LowObservable]

Yes, the "definitive proof" photo exploded rather quickly. I thought that it was altogether too convenient, not to mention that everyone was looking very relaxed given what was supposed to be happening.

The whole Japanese-execution theory reeks. While US-Japanese relations in mid-1937 weren't exactly cordial, we were still trading and even in 1939 were selling them modern airplanes (DC-4Es and Lockheeds). It's not likely that Tokyo would have issued orders to off a famous American, and even less likely that some local Japanese commander would have done it on his own initiative.

Given that Kingsford-Smith, Ulm and Mermoz all similarly vanished on oceanic flights in the same era, Occam's Razor cuts one way here.

 

[Triton]

"The Japanese Government’s Offer of Assistance to Help Find Amelia Earhart, July 1937"
Posted on July 12, 2017 by Netisha

Source:
https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2017/07/12/the-japanese-governments-offer-of-assistance-to-help-find-amelia-earhart-july-1937/

 

[Triton]

"Amelia Earhart reality check: The Japanese helped the U.S. look for the famed aviator"
by Michael E. Ruane

July 14, 2017

Source:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/07/14/amelia-earhart-reality-check-the-japanese-helped-the-u-s-look-for-the-famed-aviator/?utm_term=.6f4cec6cd809

On July 5, 1937, as the United States was searching the Pacific Ocean for Amelia Earhart’s missing airplane, the State Department got a phone call from the Japanese Embassy in Washington.

Tokyo, the embassy said, wanted to know whether it could help out. Relations between the two countries had been deteriorating since Japan had attacked China in 1931, and were destined to end up with the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbor and the calamity of World War II.

But Greg Bradsher, senior archivist at the National Archives, noted in a new blog post that the Earhart tragedy offered both countries a brief moment of cordiality, which each hoped might lead to better relations.

Earhart’s disappearance roared back into the news this week after the History Channel aired a documentary contending that she survived her last flight and was captured by the Japanese. As proof, the report touted a blurry old photograph that purportedly showed Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, on an atoll in the Marshall Islands.

One problem: A Japanese military history blogger unearthed evidence that the photo was first published in a 1935 Japanese travelogue — two years before Earhart and Noonan set off on their doomed effort to circumnavigate the globe.

Another problem: the Japanese joined the search for the aviator they were supposedly holding captive...

 

[hesham]

As I know they found some evidences indicated to her.