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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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Unless she was flying a giant rock, I highly doubt that they found anything.
Alone on a deserted island with nothing to eat except coconuts and crabs. God.....If only they had a volley ball to talk to.
Leave it be already.
Because I'm not done with it.
please don't rush to judgement–her plane was a flintsones model.
It was a Lockheed Electra. A beautiful aircraft.
She's Dead... Find something better to do.
These guys have made numerous expeditions to find Earharts plane. Every trip is done with donations. Here...let me quess. They will need more trips to verify what they think is wreckage. Im sorry but the people who are making the donations are idiots. These expedition folks are getting dummies to pay for their summer vacation in the tropics.
Spring break you hit the nail dead on the head.They have millions to look for traces of long ago dead people but god forbid any of this money should go to starving people,animals etc.And we call ourselfs civilized and human "what a sad world we live in"
I don't actually care.
I feel like they are never really going to find that plane. Think about it logically- it was made from ULTRA light weight metals that would be practically eroded by now. It is nice to read a story that primes the pump of imagination regardless of the motives behind writing it.
Can't someone just simply place a call to Spongebob to find out if those are really airplane parts? I bet Spongebob is willing to help !!
What's more mysterious – Amelia Earhart's disappearance or Rmoney's tax returns?
Amelia's wreckage, by far.
Actually the most "mysterious thing" of all – is why partisan trolls can't pass ANY site without depositing their political excrement there.
Obama's college transcripts...
Your spelling is the greatest mystery.
Amelia was one of the best woman pilots of her day. That drunk Noonan is who got them killed.
Perhaps planning the flight so as to try to spot a low island with little elevation while flying east into a rising sun was not the best idea. Perhaps leaving behind the trailing wire antennae was not smart either. Perhaps flying around the world in a plane crewed by two people, neither of whom could use Morse code wasn't very smart. Perhaps not being familiar with radio protocol was a bad idea as well.
This was the riskiest leg of her trip, and she was looking for a speck in the middle of nothing but water, flying into a morning sun. She reportedly was so load and clear to the Itasca at one point that some of the crew in the radio room ran on deck, expecting to see her right over the rigging ... but she never found the island, and nobody's found her.
In hindsight, a lot went wrong ... and Noonan was considered a very capable navigator.
Greenspam; No real mystery there. We can't see them but we can smell them all over the country.
Well, now we can rescue her. Also, maybe now they can find NObama's birth certificate and not the one that he made himself and says "I was born here"
BLAH BLAH BLAH!!! Until they actually go find this plane and bring it to the surface this story is meaningless
And if you squint, you can see Snoopy...
That made my day! haha