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Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Discovered Photo Suggests
A newly discovered photograph suggests legendary aviator Amelia Earhart, who vanished 80 years ago on a round-the-world flight, survived a crash-landing in the Marshall Islands. The photo, found in a long-forgotten file in the National Archives, shows a woman who resembles Earhart and a man who appears to be her navigator, Fred Noonan, on a dock. The discovery is featured in a new History channel special, "Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence," that airs Sunday. (www.nbcnews.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Is this really news or just another bit of sensationalism to gain readership/viewers? How many breaking stories about the "second shooter in Dallas" or the "real location of Hoffa's body" will there be? I honestly don't care what happened at this point and won't take the bait and watch the History Channel, which rarely has history on it anymore.
If you like aviation, and I assume you do since you are here, then it really is news. It is aviation history. It is an aviation mystery just like DB Cooper and Malaysia Flt 370.
I do like aviation and because aviation involves risk and situational awareness I take it seriously and make sure I have my facts in order. Apparently so do many other aviation enthusiasts. This bit of "News" was hype, which apparently worked on you, to gain viewership and make advertizing dollars. Quickly proven as male bovine excrement.
http://www.flyingmag.com/history-channels-amelia-earhart-story-quickly-unravels?src=SOC&dom=tw
http://www.flyingmag.com/history-channels-amelia-earhart-story-quickly-unravels?src=SOC&dom=tw
Skepticism is healthy but my money is on this photo being authentic. Earhart probably did what Sully did-a water landing near water vessels.
Consider it was 1937, the Marshall islands: essentially spits of land in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, someone takes a film photograph in black and white because they thought was noteworthy. Who know how long it took to get into US spy agencies' hands? It's not like they could have tweeted the photo in 1937. The film had to be handed of to someone, taken to civilization, possibly in Australia or Hawaii, by slow boat, brought to a dark room, developed, and deciphered. It could have taken years and by that time, there were other things happening that put Earheart and Noonan on the back burner.
This is probably real. In 1937 90% of the world, including the photographer , probably didn't even know who Earhart was or what she was trying to do. Not everyone had radios or spoke English.
Consider it was 1937, the Marshall islands: essentially spits of land in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, someone takes a film photograph in black and white because they thought was noteworthy. Who know how long it took to get into US spy agencies' hands? It's not like they could have tweeted the photo in 1937. The film had to be handed of to someone, taken to civilization, possibly in Australia or Hawaii, by slow boat, brought to a dark room, developed, and deciphered. It could have taken years and by that time, there were other things happening that put Earheart and Noonan on the back burner.
This is probably real. In 1937 90% of the world, including the photographer , probably didn't even know who Earhart was or what she was trying to do. Not everyone had radios or spoke English.
I don't think people are questioning the authenticity of the photo, just whether the people are (or could be) Earhart and Noonan.
If she was captured by the Japanese, she was then tortured and killed. And they would NEVER admit that it happened, EVER.