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75 years later, the mystery of Amelia Earhart solved?
Debris discovered in the depths of the South Pacific may be remnants of vanished aviator Amelia Earhart’s plane.
“A review of high-definition underwater video footage taken during the recently-completed Niku VII expedition has revealed a scattering of man-made objects on the reef slope off the west end of Nikumaroro,” The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery reported on its website.
The question researchers are now asking: Do these new images reveal parts of the same plane captured in a 1937 photo of Nikumaroro.
Discovery News reports that the 1937 photo of the island's western shoreline was taken three months after Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared. The shot by British Colonial Service officer Eric R. Bevington, “revealed an apparent man-made protruding object on the left side of the frame.” Forensic analysis of the image “found the mysterious object consistent with the shape and dimension of the upside-down landing gear of Earhart's plane.”
"The Bevington photo shows what appears to be four components of the plane: a strut, a wheel, a wom gear and a fender. In the debris field there appears to be the fender, possibly the wheel and possibly some portions of the strut," TIGHAR forensic imaging specialist Jeff Glickman told Discovery News.
TIGHAR launched the expedition last month, working on a theory that Earhart and Noonan became stranded and ultimately met their deaths on Nikumaroro Island after their Lockheed Electra plane was swept out to sea 75 years ago.
The group’s ninth expedition to the island kicked off with a chorus of excitement and criticism around the Internet. Researchers ultimately returned to the U.S. admitting they had found no obvious signs of the plane.
But new analysis of an underwater debris field may prove the researchers found exactly what they were looking for.
"Early media reports rushed to judgment in saying that the expedition didn't find anything," Ric Gillespie, TIGHAR executive director, told Discovery News. "We had, of course, hoped to see large pieces of aircraft wreckage but as soon as we saw the severe underwater environment at Nikumaroro we knew that we would be looking for debris from an airplane that had been torn to pieces 75 years ago."
Glickman told Discovery News the group has reviewed less than 30% of the high-definition underwater video taken on the recent expedition, which launched July 12 and concluded on July 24.
TIGHAR theorizes that Earhart and Noonan landed on Nikumaroro Island - then called Gardner’s Island - after failing to find a different South Pacific island where they were planning to land. The pair is believed to have landed safely and called for help using the Electra’s radio. And in a twist of fate, the plane was apparently swept out to sea, washing away Earhart and Noonan’s only source of communication. U.S. Navy search planes flew over the island, but not seeing the Electra, passed it by and continued the search elsewhere.
"What makes this the best expedition is the technology we've been able to assemble to search for the wreckage of that airplane," Gillespie told CNN last month. "We have an autonomous vehicle. We have multibeam sonar above the University of Hawaii ship we're on right now. We have a remote-operated vehicle to check out the targets (and a) high-definition camera. We're all set."
Gillespie told Discovery News that if further analysis of the Bevington photo continues to support TIGHAR's theory, the group will seek to recover the objects from the ocean’s depths.
Do clues to Amelia Earhart mystery lurk beneath the sea?
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$2 Million to look for a plane that crashed in 1937? Seriously, who invests in this project, instead of fighting hunger, poverty, malaria....
Who cares, It's not your money. So don't worry about it.
Two million dollars to solve the Amelia mystery is worth it....the government already spends lots on disease and hunger, why don't u donate your own money to a helpless cause...face facts ..the world is much too populated and too little food...life is life n let god...
75 years later, and nobody gives a crap.
Not so. You are just too young.
She is an American icon for women back in the early thirties and still today. It's important to solve this great wonder and maybe if the plane is recovered and reconstructed with what is pieced to gather the NTSC can define what happened to Amelia and Fred's Electra. It's interesting and will continue to follow as this great mystery is finally solved after 75 years....
You mean the NTSB.
The biggest problem today in this country besides greed is curiosity. That's why kids experiment with drugs and why we think spending all that money is worth while. Some people have more money than they know what to do with. Sounds crazy when people are losing their jobs every day.
Curiosity is not a "problem". It's because of curiosity that you, me, and the majority of the planet don't still live in the stone age.
This is a non-story, no real evidence, a phony looking picture that has
all the markings of a scam to get further funding.
Why CNN still has the garbage on its site defies logic.
amelia,hughes,linburg,wright bros,and all the pioneers of that golden age of aviation risked it all to discover and push the boundries that average folks didnt dare. she deserves to be found and her story sang out. she risked it all, so should we that have the ability and resources. I salute her sacrifice with humble honor and pray that she is found. a little patriotism fellow aviators. no man left behind.
Thank you for a real reply. I think this is very scary and fascinating. To be in that spot in those days...It is really an amazing adventure. To be stranded. Did they land in the water? Did they make it to an island? There's so much to wonder. Like in the movie Cast Away. Just intrigues me, as well as frightens. Anyway, hope there can be real solutions to this mystery.
this is all stupid i cuse wat if it were u would u really want peaple looking for u after one thousand years i would not mean i would love to just rest in peace if i were her and i no u sure would to like u would u like to be disterbed after 75 year i mean really and for 2.2 million dollars thats stupid if u really want that much money u will get a real job andwork for it duh! rest in peace Amelia Earhart
Photos aren't just good enough. Don't do a halfway job: go back, bring it up, identify a serial number and then it will be done properly.
This is the line of search that has eluded every one till now.It is sad that human being left to die like this.
And once again TIGHAR fleeces money out of the gullible and governmental agencies on nothing. The most plausible evidence so far from interviews of servicemen stationed there, they landed were shot as spies and the aircraft disposed of. There will be another expedition soon with more money fleeced out of people and still.................nothing.
heyyyyy
Bro I live in Irael
I think Amelia E. landed on that island with her partner and tryed to conntackt the U.S gov't but their plane was washed away into sea.
I thought That She Flew Over The Atlanic oceant why would the plane be in The Pacific Ocean Common Sense Really
her life's a mystery..