Amelia Earhart survival story in doubt.

"A Japanese military history buff has apparently undermined a new theory that Amelia Earhart survived a crash-landing in the Pacific Ocean during her historic attempted round-the-world flight in 1937.

The history blogger has posted the same photograph that formed the backbone of a History channel documentary that aired on Sunday that argued that Earhart was alive in July 1937 — but the book the photo was in was apparently published two years before the famed aviator disappeared. The History channel is looking into the matter but stands behind its documentary." …

https://www.google.com/amp/s/w...hart-documentary/amp

I swear every couple of years they dig up more supposed evidence of what happened to her. Just a money making scheme to fund adventurers and cable television.

We need Geraldo on the case!

My wife asked me what I thought of the show, as she watched something else. I said it was 40% history and 60% Bigfoot .

According to CNN, she crash landed on the tenth planet.

We need funding for a study to go rescue her.

Bet she's been eating crappy potatoes long enough...

Wait. Did you say History Channel documentary? Didn't they tell me once that in 1939 Charlie Chaplin and his evil Nazi regime enslaved Europe and tried to take over the world but was stopped by UN (pronounced UuuNnn)? I think there were also dinosaurs involved.

At this point in time, I really doubt there will be convincing evidence as to the concluding moment of Ms Earhart. But even if they could prove such, at this point in time (to quote a sad source), "what does it matter".

Back in the late 50's and early 60's I worked for a local photographer and part of my duties included all phases of darkroom work, i.e. film developing and printing. In the course of this, I worked with a WWII Sea bee vet in the darkroom as his swamper, i.e. I did the wet work while he ran the enlarger.

With knothing but hours to kill in the dark stories and life histories are exchanged many times.

While on Saipan during the war, he got to know a number of the locals and they told him accounts of seeing Earhart on Si-pain being held captive by the Japanese and that they had killed her there. About ten years later a book was published by an investigative reporter by the name of Grogan if I recall correctly. He went to Sipan and conducted his investigation with the locals and the story was essentially the same as I had heard years earlier. My friend was a guy that I would describe as a windy geezer, however I had no reason not to believe him and then after hearing another account that reinforced his, I was reasonably convinced that I had heard "the straight skinny". A number of years after that, I read a book that was based on artifacts being found on another island that was not even close to Saipan. This second book concluded that she and Noonan I died there of natural causes after surviving a while.

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I really don't care about this rather poor historical pilot... when compared to the likes of Lindbergh's wife. You know that route you flew, pretty much anywhere. Well guess what, you can probably thank old Lindie and his wife for determining that route among the vast number they flew and charted together across the globe.

Bets on finding Amelia Earhart or Jimmy Hoffa first.

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Originally posted by Dakor:
I really don't care about this rather poor historical pilot... when compared to the likes of Lindbergh's wife....

His wife in the US, or his mistress in Germany??

The Pacific is a big ocean - lots of water and very little land. We still don't really know what happened to Malaysian flight 370.

Who knows, maybe she and her navigator survived and had a child together who grew up to be known as DB Cooper

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Wait. Did you say History Channel documentary? Didn't they tell me once that in 1939 Charlie Chaplin and his evil Nazi regime enslaved Europe and tried to take over the world but was stopped by UN (pronounced UuuNnn)? I think there were also dinosaurs involved.

Electrolytes

Longtime members may recall this is one of my pet peeves. Every time they start this nonsense, I know where it's going to end up- nowhere. Last time they tried to convince us they'd found her was about two years ago. Before that, it was about two years. I imagine that in a couple more years, they'll try to pull this shit again, and for what? Ratings.

Amelia Earhart was a marginal pilot at best and her navigator was an alcoholic. Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra ran out of fuel while she was searching for Howland Island. The plane ditched in the middle of an unimaginably vast ocean and sank to the ocean floor.
The plane, the remains of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan have dissipated back to whence they came. Nothing will ever be found of either person nor the airplane, because there's nothing at all to find.

I love how the so-called "History Channel" says they'll investigate and "be transparent".

Excuse me, but just what in the fuck else would you be about this?? The photograph was published in a book two years before Earhart even began that flight.

Hello?

McFly??

You'll be "transparent"? Just who is running things at the History Channel these days? Teenagers? Just who do you think you're trying to fool? That photo- around which you've built this latest elaborate and completely false story- was extant in 1935. Case closed. Period.

Jesus

You screwed up. Just admit it. Happens to everybody. Just admit your mistake, apologize to your viewers, and vow to actually do thorough research next time. Either that, or change the name of your channel to something that reflects your current content. Call it the American Pickers and Bigfoot Channel. Whatever you decide to call it, just about the very last thing it should be called is the History Channel.

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Originally posted by 220-9er:
Bets on finding Amelia Earhart or Jimmy Hoffa first.

I dunno maybe Discovery will find Bigfoot or Nessie first?

I read her Lockheed Electra cost $80K, $1.4K in today's dollars. Then I saw that a 1957 Lockheed Electra 188 90 passenger airliner cost about the same. It doesn't make sense that a 4 engine airliner cost similar 20 years later than a 10 place twin engine plane.

I too am with you Para. It is a dead horse.

Hoffa or Earhart? Whatever remains of Jimmy Hoffa resides in the United States. Amelia Earhart's body dissipated and/or was eaten 80 years ago and the molecules of what used to be her person are in all the oceans of the world.

So, Hoffa it is.

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Originally posted by parabellum:


I love how the so-called "History Channel" says they'll investigate and "be transparent".

Transparency is a different quality than "thorough."

There are 24 hours a day, 7 days a week of air time that must be filled, hopefully with content that attracts eyeballs.

Take American Heroes Channel, formerly Military Channel, nee Wings. They have something like 3,000 hours of video of Nazi Germany figures riding around, parading around, making speeches, flying in formation, driving tanks, etc. and can edit those into essentially infinite combinations, fit any story.

There are an endless number of historic events that are mysterious in some degree, or detail, or even flat wrong. If a producer can come up with some video, a few "experts" and a plausible story, he can turn it into gold. Modern day alchemy! If it is true, all the better, maybe.