Earhart said that women needed to take chances and grow. She did--the last flight is tragic, but she did what she loved, that's what matters. Had courage, natural charisma--and a great smile. She's an American original. Unforgettable.
@WOKEN'T Ouch, she went throu AC like Kardashians do plastic surgerys. Not being interested in men she married for $. You don't accentuate the negative when promoting something. There was a lot of money to be gained or lost, rights to the story, a feather in Beeches hat, radio navigation was the newest and greatest feature in AC. and she was a hero to the womens movement. The majority of pilots that knew her firmly believed that she wasn't a good pilot. We love mysteries, putting clues together to form the solution to the puzzle. Throw in WWII and the possibility of her spying on the Japanese for America adds more intrigue. Pilotage and dead reckoning are extremely difficult over water because you have to make up check points, guesstimate the winds aloft, and come up with an answer. Just a guess in the middle of nowhere doesn't cut it. I think she she had an unexpected headwind, burned more fuel and surprise splash.
Im facinated with all this mystery im reading and seeing things I never thought possible from ghost ships to vanishing pilots im absolutely hooked im really enjoying this
Those who said Amelia wasn't a good pilot nor navigator were the chauvinistic men who were jealous of her piloting & navigational skills. She did so much to advance not only aviation but women's rights. She WAS A TRUE PIONEER! Bravo for ALL the amazing things that Amelia Earhart did & accomplished especially considering the LACK of technology that was available back in her era. Kudos to you Amelia wherever you are 🛫🕊
It is not fair to blame Earheart's navigator, Frederick J. Noonan (1893-1937). and his alleged drinking problem. Noonan had a pilot's license, a sea license (#121190) which authorized him to "Master Class Navigator, any ocean" (i.e. license to navigate and pilot any ship, anywhere). "Noonan was rumored to be a heavy drinker... That was fairly common during this era and there is no contemporary evidence Noonan was an alcoholic." Furthermore Noonan was NOT fired from Pan American, for drinking - as stated here. Noonan was, by far, the most experienced aviator in that Lockheed Electra when he and Earthart disappeared. And as a professionel sailor, pilot and navigator, he knew how to operate a radio, too. "During the early 1930s, he worked for Pan American World Airways as a navigation instructor in Miami and ... eventually assuming the duties of inspector for all of the company's airports.... Noonan was subsequently responsible for mapping Pan Am's clipper routes across the Pacific Ocean, participating in many flights to Midway Island, Wake Island, Guam, the Philippines, and Hong Kong. [Thus, Noonan already had a] reputation as an expert navigator, along with his role in the development of commercial airline navigation, had already earned him a place in aviation history. The tall, very thin, dark auburn-haired and blue-eyed 43-year-old navigator was living in Los Angeles. He resigned from Pan Am because he felt he had risen through the ranks as far as he could as a navigator, and he had an interest in starting a navigation school."
robynn, you are correct in saying he was expert. what very few know, and i learned navigation before my navy time and had to get much better during those navy years, when you deal with crossing the international date line, everything about navigation changes. your almanac is based on date/time GMT specifically. stars are considered to be absolute, that is they do not move. (not concerned with the fact they are, we are talking tables of navigation, they are considered fixed and the earth's movement is then calculated) when navigators who are not used to crossing the date line are doing so, the errors in navigation are huge. for our girl Amelia to get on the line which lead her to crash on the island ( say crash since her partner was injured) was no small feat. the was probably too far south due to compensation for what she assumed would be northern hemisphere winds when she was still south (she drifted further south) is remarkable. it is always a pleasure to see a thinking, informed comment when i'm reading through what is posted. in a post that might not have posted, i noted the way direction finding worked and why radar if it existed would never be spoken of. look up "lucy has one eye" to get a perspective of radar at the time which even talking about it was dealt with severely excellent post, robynn
I just listened again to the interview with Betty Klenck, the teenager in Florida that heard Amelia’s distress call. As a retired criminal investigator I am convinced she really did hear Amelia’s calls for help. She still had her notebook from 70+ years ago filled with contemporary notes, song lyrics and drawings with Amelia’s distress call right in the middle of it. There are too many details that she wrote down for it to be fake. She wrote “Howland”, “157”, and her descriptions of Amelia and Fred fighting over the microphone with Fred wanting out of the plane because it was too hot is just not something anybody would think to fake. In fact, two men did fake hearing her call and it was described as a sterile call for help with none of the drama that Betty described. Amelia simply had to have landed on an island somewhere and survived for a period, it’s more logical to assume that than to assumes Betty’s notes were faked. Occam’s Razor. The simplest solution is likely the answer. Running out of gas and plunging into the ocean was the simplest answer until I heard Betty’s story. I’m not saying it was Gardner Island but again Betty wrote down “sounds like New York City” and the wreck of the Norwich City is there. That is spooky. Betty heard Amelia crying and heard her last words. Now that she has passed, I wonder if Betty found out the truth.
Well said! Betty Klenck's transcript is incredibly compelling evidence that Earhart and Noonan landed at Nicomororo. My jaw dropped at the "New York City/Norwich City" part.
@@twinfairviews2893 She’s like a human cockpit voice recorder. At one point she said Fred’s voice wavered when he went to the back of the plane, and Amelia couldn’t see where he was. Then he was out of his mind fighting to get out because the plane was so hot, they wrestled over the microphone. Just too many emotional descriptions like those and that Amelia _was crying_ . All of her notes were in a notebook with contemporary evidence dating it to the correct time frame. It’s a shame Bob Ballard didn’t investigate it in the very first trip that Tighar took. I believe he might have found something but too many years and tropical storms have passed. I know I keep repeating myself, but I am impressed with Betty. I investigated fraud all over the world interviewing suspects and witnesses. I was a police Sgt. then went to work for a Fortune 50 company. People would make fraudulent claims about a product being defective and injuring them, it was my job to get to the truth. I know how a fake report would be composed and we actually have just such a fake report made by two guys who said they heard Amelia. Brief, to the point - _This is Amelia Earhart. We crashed on a deserted island. My navigator is hurt. Please help. Hurry!_
@@robertansley6331 See, that last part, where the call he got was blunt and to the point just doesn’t sound right. Bettys sounds much more believable and it’s very likely it’s true. Details aren’t usually used, or at least not many, if someone is lying.
The aircraft depicted at 9:45, Avro Avian IV airworthy at the Golden Wings Flying Museum in Blaine, Minnesota. It was once the oldest flying aircraft in Australia and has been converted from an Avian II configuration. It is painted to represent G-EBUG, an aircraft Amelia Earhart flew across the United States in 1928-1929. In all, there are nine survivors of all marks from around the world.
I already knew about her life and accomplishments and her mysterious disappearance, the reason i watched this one hour documentary was because i thought they finally found her plane wreckage or something. This documentary surely gave me more information than i had, but it kept streching the same information for one hour..her disappearance is still mystery..
I just think it's funny how the started off by say that they know where the plane is FOR A FACT. But by the end of the show they speculate where the plane is..
2 companies spent several million dollars looking in the depths around Howland Island -- the end result was the same as 1937 when the Navy found absolutely wreckage let alone an oil slick! They didn't find so much as a propeller blade from the plane because it NEVER sank near Howland Island! I think the natives in the Marshall Islands and Saipan were telling the truth... she crashed hundreds of miles off-course. She had a LOT more fuel in that modified Electra than Elgen Long and the other "crash and sink" experts think. The US Marines saw the Electra on Saipan in 1944... it was destroyed shortly after the occupation of the island by American forces to prevent certain truths being leaked to the public. It was an election year and it wouldn't look good if it appeared like an American president let one of his most famous supporters die in captivity when he knew all about her whereabouts. There's a decent case to be made that Earhart was spying on the Japanese Navy in 1937, trying to get evidence back to show they were building up fortifications on the islands and violating all kinds of treaties (which they did in fact). Circumstantial evidence or not, there's a lot more people in Marshalls and Saipan saying she was there... They got a lot more to support them than the official storyline which the federal government doesn't have so much of a plane rivet's support for! FYI, if people think crash and sink is a joke, TIGHAR's storyline is even sicker. It's a scam to get money from gullible who have too much money and don't know the story of Gardner Island better.... Earhart was never there and there's so much junk on that island from a half dozen different settlements that you can make it look like anything you want to people who don't know squat...
+AvengerII I agree! I think they were captured by the Japanese and eventually shot as spies. They weren't necessarily spies but they were suspected and that was enough for the Japanese soldiers.
+Krisna Reece No one really knows what happened to her after the Japanese got her... There's two schools of thought there. 1) The simplest conclusion is that she died in captivity from disease or the Japanese eventually executed her (and Noonan) prior to the US forces landing on Saipan in 1944. Oh, by the way, the Saipan operation was the Pacific equivalent of D-Day! The fact of the matter is that there is only hearsay about her fate. Unless someone comes up with identifiable DNA, an official post-loss report/secret document, all we've got is hearsay about her fate. What happened to the Electra seems to be locked in. I've heard at least one story that they found a piece of the Electra some years back but it was never verified. There's another story that they DID find a hydraulic gauge or something to that effect on Saipan. Officially, nothing's been verified (as far as recovered wreckage/pieces) but it's almost certain that the plane was destroyed and buried on Saipan. 2) Earhart and Noonan were taken in by the Japanese but eventually repatriated to the States and assumed new identities. There's some circumstantial evidence for this... It's not that hard to find. A couple of books have been written about the possibility that she was returned to the US after WWII. There's some controversy over whether she applied for Japanese naturalization (she loved Japan but was no warmonger) prior to 1939 -- some documents suggest she did something that really teed off the FDR administration --, did some aeronautical consulting for Japanese manufacturers prior to WWII, and was possibly made to do some of the Tokyo Rose radio broadcasts. It's really controversial stuff that paints her in a less-than-flattering light but people aren't looking at the entire picture here. She could have been duped, realized what was happening but was in a bad spot, and had no choice but to cooperate to a point. This storyline suggests she eventually ended up in a prisoner camp in China was she was liberated at the end of the War and taken back to the US under an assumed name: Irene Bolam. As for Noonan? There's a lot less known about him, period... They have a hard time finding or DIDN'T find a birth certificate for him or his alleged post-loss alias, William Van Dusen. His story is even WEIRDER than Earhart's if you can believe that!
Very minor point: at 15:10 it is stated she left Newfoundland. Yet the spot marked on the map is actually Labrador. Newfoundland is the island to the southeast.....
It was very interesting to see that when Amelia Earhart was trying to find Howland Island she was using a pattern that rescue divers use to find lost divers in the water but on a much larger scale.
"two hours of fuel remaining". That's really not much fuel if you think about it. If they got lost, they could easily burn that up. They ran out of fuel and they likely died on impact. Plane ditching is usually not successful. The ocean is huge. It would be a miracle to find a trace. No more mystery.
I am at a loss to understand all the vicious comments. What is it about Amelia Earhart that seems to attract the attention of the worst type of haters.
That is unnecessary to say that. How can you call making a solo flight across the Atlantic and then from Hawaii to mainland U.S.A. a failure. Most people could only hope to do what she did.
The "Around the World" flight would have had a far greater chance of success had Amelia's ego not virtually predetermined its failure; she possessed no Morse ability, she chose to leave behind almost anything required for an emergency situation, and the entire Electra/US Coast Guard interface was ill-planned & unsuccessfully executed. In essence, Earhart assured both her own as well as Fred Noonan's death.
The Electra is such a beautiful piece of equipment. It's poetry in motion even while standing still. No doubt Buick wanted to be amongst good company when it chose the nameplate for it's Electra sedan.
That's an interesting thought about the Buick Electra, so good in fact that I looked it up. Alas, the namesake of the Buick model was in fact a famous sculptor, Electra Waggoner Biggs, whose brother-in-law was both Buick and General Motor's President. Good guess, though!
The puff of dust under the airplane at 3:42 is the belly antenna getting scraped off on the rough dirt field. From that moment on, she was deaf. Amelia and Fred died on Nikumaroro.
I did some checking, you are correct, Amelia died there and there is some physical proof of it. The human remains discovered there in 1940 and lost, were found again last year where they were sent by the British military, Fiji. DNA testing was done on the skull, although the tests were not 100% conclusive as the DNA was degraded, they got enough to determine that the remains were of a female of European descent and what they managed to salvage shows matches to Amelia's living relatives. They are around 85 to 90% positive that the remains are hers even though they cannot prove it 100%.
@@seachris Because they do not know the location. I mean, the guy at the end went skydiving to better familiarize himself with the ocean and it's depths. That speaks volumes of the intelligence of these glory hounds.
the name of the account that made the comment is Russel Williams and he has a video about f18... There is also a convicted criminal that murdered two people named Russel Williams and he was a Colonel in the Canadian airforce, does anyone see this?
It seems highly likely that the storm at 5 hours was a major factor in the flight going way off course from the Howland Island target. Also, the Pacific is vast and Howland is a speck and coupled with technical problems, the flight appeared to be doomed from the start. It's possible that the trip was too much for Earhart and coupled with her exhaustion, it's not really surprising that they failed to land there. When the PNG pilot talks about how he would be very nervous about attempting a Howland island flight, it becomes clear how dangerous Earhart's attempt really was.
Correct, Julia, and Amelia was her own worst enemy by failing to properly plan & prepare for such an undertaking; example --- coordination between herself and the US Navy/US Coast Guard was very rudimentary at best. She & the Coast Guard cutter Itasca were transmitting to one another on different radio frequencies at different times; Amelia essentially killed herself plus one of the finest celestial navigators in the entire Pacific area.
Although, if she did indeed make it to Gardner, it could be said that she snapped out of that hubristic mentality, listened to Fred, and made an educated attempt at the Phoenix Islands. Doesn't change the fact that it shouldn't have got to that point, but its better than taking that recklessness all the way to the bottom of the ocean. If this is all true, we have to consider that the rescue attempt was botched.
So many variables and not much room for error. I know I'd have never had the guts to do it. Flying for so many hours when you're already exhausted, any little thing could bring tragedy.
Very true, and tragic. If the first attempt traveling west had been successful, she wouldn’t have been so exhausted on the most difficult leg of the journey over the vast Pacific. However, finding that tiny island with the technology at the time, especially when she didn’t really have mastery of it, was likely never going to end well. I admire her incredible bravery, but it was a very risky thing to do.
A woman who was a farm girl in North western Ill. taught Amelia Earhart how to fly. The local woman's name is on a plague a mere block away from me as I sit here typing. . Her family home was bought then moved across the block from the "New" 1940 Post Office of this town. Amelia met Nita in California,where she was teaching others to "FLY!".
Thank you Naked Science for the interesting documentaries. Very cool stuff! 😎👍 What a beautiful airplane, the Lockheed L10A Electra. Beautiful plane! That and the Beech18.
That is 10x 50 miles or 20 x 25 mi which is remarkable in a vast body of water like the Pacific given the data to work from. Of course this assumes this team is correct. On e assumption is which ship they passed over. One thing I don’t understand about radios is why one party hears the other but not reciprocal in reception. My cell phone has done this so I know it happens but it is on terra firma.
It was the greatest aviation mystery up to that time, but one can reason that she got lost and ran out of gas. It was soon surpassed by the disappearance of the Hawaii Clipper in 1938. A Martin 130 flying boat disappeared just after leaving Guam. Since it was a flying boat flying over water, it should have been able to land on water, but to this day, no trace has been found of the 14 people aboard.
There's a newer documentary out. They found a campfire, dead roasted birds and American freckle cream on Nikamoru (used to be Gardner Island) and a photo with maybe an airplane wheel sticking out of the water, plus transcripts of further transmissions on her frequency where she calmed an apparently injured Noonan. But it's certain she didn't live long if that WAS her (which can't be proved of course)
Hardly think it's the greatest aviation mystery of all time. A jetliner that disappears in the 21st century or an airplane that disappears within sight of a major city are two that come to mind.
Fred may have been injured badly enough that they simply couldn’t remove him from aircraft. Possible going into shock and unable to exit. He would have been taken to sea with the craft at tide regression. Possible, but conjecture, but say both legs broken ( broken lower back by hard awkward landing) Amelia would not have been able to remove him. The same stresses that damaged the right rear window attachment for hard landing ( perhaps fuselage twist deflection may have loosened aluminum sheet patch replacement. Could have been gathered by Amelia as possible signal mirror. The island girl who remembered wreckage from that location may have been seeing the strut structure protruding from reef crack. The craft at high tide may have been pushed by empty fuel cells flotation and snapped off to remain as majority of craft was washed out to sea. The strut itself in later years storm surge could have been dislodged and also lost to the sea.
You know I think running out of fuel over the ocean was most likely. But here's something to consider. If the plane was out of fuel, the giant 1000 gallon tank would make a great flotation device for the plane. It could have delayed it's sinking for hours. Especially if the wings broke off on impact. That means the currents could carry the plane miles before sinking.
Fume Ventilation and fuel dumping tubes flooded the empty tanks with water in almost immediately. From what I researched, simulations involving the 10E sink very quickly in water.
Anyone who obsesses over "records" and "needs the celebrity" is prone to be a gambler; and gamblers are known for making poor decisions when all the chips are down. Why she is still lauded by so many is a mystery to me. Earhart is an example of what not to do. Don't seek celebrity, don't seek records, above all, do not compare yourself to other people in your career field. Such self-destructive behavior is bound to catch up sooner rather than later.
The "documentary" that claims to know where she crashed has no idea where she crashed. Almost like it's complete fing trash meant to fool you into thinking you're learning something. How stupid are you? No, really?
So this was put on UA-cam eight years ago, and may have been recorded even earlier, I haven’t heard anything, so guessing they did not find the Electra in the Pacific. The odds of finding it are very remote. Probably Amelia Earhart remains in the “we’ll never know for certain on this side of eternity“ column.
I've had a close look at this incident & it is my humble opinion the plane is to the north north west of Howland Island, perhaps within 100km (60 miles). The plane is not to the south of Howland Island, as a lot of pundits suggest, & it certainly did not land on the exposed reef platform of Gardner Island everyone suggests it reached. That idea is preposterous! For 2 million US a dedicated search using Ocean Infinity technology would probably find it within 20 days (unless the whole thing has since been silted over)..
These comments are disappointing. The documentary is called “In Search of Amelia Earhart”, not “We Found Amelia Earhart”. It didn’t even use clickbait! Silly for you all to complain about a FREE documentary on UA-cam. Be a little more appreciative, it’s a well produced video! :)
I've studied this forr many minutes and came to the conclusion they got lost they ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean killing them both.. All this mystery stuff is pure guff
Many minutes? WOW! Aren't you invested? Hahaha, they've been looking for her for decades upon decades, who knew they just needed to wait for you to be born, and having studied one video for minutes you'd solve one of the world's longest running, oldest mysteries, my god why aren't you famous!? Hahaha Hahaha 😂😂😂😂 kids these days! Oyt of control and dumb as a box of rocks😂😂
Well gee, your intense study of “many minutes” far surpasses the experts, with actual evidence, and their studies for over 80 years. Good job, professor🙄
@@misssophie7717 All evidence points to they got lost ran out of fuel and crashed in the sea.. The rest is speculation and conspiracy theory professor..
im not trying to be negative or upset people here but ,should she really be listed as a (great pioneer) when she got lost trying to follow a straight line.
Amelia was here for a good time, sadly, not a long time - what an amazing aviator, to try that with old style navigational skills, & in a time when few women even drove cars let alone fly planes around the world was simply Brave and amazing.....such people built the world back then, sadly such Bravehearts are are not around today. !!!!! An Icon to Aviation forever in my eyes 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
No, she was found as was her Electra. Watch Earhart's Electra on Amazon or read Fred Goerners 1966 book which tells the story in excrutiating detail and documentation. It's corroberated testimony by hundreds of people and US Marines including many Flag Officers, few know of each other but all tell the same story of exactly what happened to Amelia. Its been known for decades. www.amazon.com/dp/B005KE8P9Y/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Yqo-EbG996S6T
Lots of peeps thought Saipan but there was a TEAM sent out here for several attempts to find anything and each time left empty handed. Was good hype for the news media and island but thats about it. Drank a few beers with the Retired American Airlines pilot, Tall lanky Texan, funny guy, He was part of the funded expedition team, even he left unconvinced. After almost 80 years and most that if they did know anything are now dementiated cant remember their own names or are dead like Noonan and Amelia. If US knew anything and is covering it up that likely proves she was on a mission from the funky expedition (Spying). Saipan, an island whos sole income relies on the TOURISM INDUSTRY was sure trying to make it she ended up there. Imagine how a declined Tourism industry would boom after that. No doubt Amelia Is a LEGEND and died doing what she loved. Thats what really matters!✌🏻🍻🇺🇸😊
Why does this guy Franco keep posting about hacking his GF Instagram? I see that post on a lot of things and no I’m not clicking the link because it’s clearly going to be something awful just curious why?
There were ham radio operators and shortwave listeners on the West Coast of the U.S. that heard Amelia's distress call. The only way this would have been possible was if the plane engines were running, meaning that they landed somewhere. My theory is that they were captured by the Japanese and the plane was destroyed.
The problem with this documentary is it is assuming her final transmission was to the Itasca, that is not true, people on ham radio and short wave radio could hear Amelia as far as the east coast in the United States. A teenager in Florida could hear Amelia and even wrote what she said in a notebook.
“ gas running low,,, we are on the line 157- 337 flying north and south “ Fred would not waste fuel flying in circles. That line flys directly over Gardner. They took off with maximum fuel load for reserve of adverse head wind. Arrived at line southerly of Howland and cloud cover may have obscured horizon. Reception antenna below fuselage was damaged by main wheel kicked up stone on rough strip at Lae. Ship so heavy used all available runway. At arrival over Itasca cloud cover. She was southerly of intended line. She was low on fuel not out. Search on line for known chain by visual and minimal airspeed with now vastly lighter aircraft. Lean carburetor setting for maximum fuel conservation. Remember the craft was a essentially a special adaptation for flying fuel tank with small space for Fred in tail. He could crawl over cells to access left seat however. Probably there to help visual at last moments. Radio may have been inadvertently made non transmitting in this leg of flight. Tail wind from southern flight ( from Howland ) allowed remaining fuel to land at reef near Norwich City wreckage. Reef at low tide there is remarkable landing able. Radio was able to transmit ( from static position on reef) possibly by discovery of loose contact. Low tide allowed for brief runs of right engine for power supply. High tide eventually takes craft out to sea. Fuel cells now exhausted provide as pontoon flotation for time enough to become hopelessly lost to history.
I watched an episode on Amelia Earhart on the tv show Unsolved Mysteries . There were witnesses on an island that saw a man and woman that matched the description of both Amelia and her co-pilot being taken captive and executed .It's also rumored the plane was set afire and parts discarded .
THERE WAS A LT. WHO WAS ASSIGN TO SIPAN IN 1944 , HIS DRIVER TOOK A WRONG TURN AND DROVE TO A BARRON PLACE WHERE HE SAW A PLANE. A GUY COME OUT OF THE BUILDING IN PLANE CLOSTH'S AND ASK WHAT R U DOING, TOLD HIM TO GET OUT. THE LT. TOOK DOWN THE # ON THE WING. NEVER TOLD ANYBODY ABOUT IT UNTILL YR'S LATER , AND FOUND OUT THAT IT WAS AMELIA'S PLANE.
I suspect that this is what prob really happened. I wish if so, the Gove would tell us JUST TELL THE TUTH!.What can happen now?I think people will understand that if she was spying she was a war causality .No reason to be mad at Japan now,. I don't get the reason for such secrecy.
Oh yeah? Well I heard that she was plucked out of the sky by aliens from Mars. They anally probed her then took her to Mars. But thankfully I'm not as stupid as you people so I can just accept we don't know the answer.
Papua New Guinea - a remote island only 150km from Australia, pretty close to Indonesia, and regularly visited for the past two centuries. How remote can that be?
They talked to other woman pilots in her era even when she was alive they said she was getting into crashes frequently and on her last flight she cut corners tol
TIGHAR. Why wasn't the baby skeleton tested DNA for Amelia? She was a women and Fred was male. Also, rumor was she was already pregnant before she left California. In a TIGHAR expedition uncovered a baby skeleton but safely placed back in the shallow grave. It is common sense to test that DNA. It could have been still born or died shortly after birth. It is possible. So why wasn't it tested?
I've heard that also. The puff from the pane on takeoff was her antenna hitting some mound or something. It seems hard to believe they did not test their radio before going way out over water.
When you read The Spirit of St Louis it's really boring as Lindberg goes on and on about working with the guys at Ryan and all the details about testing the airplane. He knew exactly what the plane would do and planed every detail and tested every piece of equipment. When Earhart flew the Atlantic in the Vega she got the plane from the factory and busted out over the ocean without even breaking in the engine. It had a bad weld in the exhaust system that would have been discovered if she had done a few maintenance and test flights. As it was the exhaust leak became very serious. Being a so called good pilot has many factors to it. Airplane handling is only one part of it. Her bad decision making and general incompetence that was revealed by her foolish flight in the Vega and in many ways on many occasions was going to get her killed sooner or later.
Humans guessing signal strengths, and then the "the computers ran the numbers" to contrive a crash site. Yeah man that sound plausible! Garbage in garbage out.
MAY YOU ALL HATERS STOP COMMENTING STUFF LIKE "Go back to the kitchen"!? TODAY IN THE 21st century, people aren't sexist. People that are sexist are you all crazy mofos that are just wasting time. She is a aviation hero and no one can doubt that. No one is to blame. Even if she left the morse code thing it is reasonable to leave it due to the circumstances. The only thing I'm hating on is the company that helps locate it. They are just doing it to get fame and be more popular. They don't deserve to be the ones with the information. If they were truly trying to find Amelia, they would let other people help find her. Amelia, we (me and the non haters) praise you for the legacy you left behind, I will always remember you. 🙏🏽🙏🏽 People like you inspire to me to become a pilot. Thank you Amelia -Kenny
So go ahead and earn some base for respect yourself before trying to lecture people what hey have to say and to do. Just go ahead, blah-blah-blah doesn't count. How about to fly across the Atlantic alone in the night in a bad weather without radio? Go ahead, be a hero!
Morse code is so easy to learn. I can teach anyone in a few hours and to be fairly fluent with it in a day. Sad to think about how that one crucial thing could have saved their lives being into amateur radio and knowing how efficiently and effectively CW propagates through the air with very little radiated power.
Invariably, the most obvious answer is the correct one. She crashed into the sea, her plane's fuel exhausted. Still, the unknown provides great material for the human imagination. Now, the winter of 2024, there appears compelling evidence of the plane's location. Should it be found, the mystery ends and, in. sense, that will be sad.
This video suggests that she was navigating. She was not, she had one the best celestial Uses sextan to navigate by position of the sun) navigators available. Not so bad using a compass the stay on the proper heading, especially with height to compensate for slight errors.
Someone should present the evidence that Noonan was a drunk. There is none. A lot of people enjoy a drink now and then, even have too much on occasion. That doesn’t make you a drunk, and he wasn’t fired by PanAm, he quit.
Earhart landed her Lockheed L10E, not on Mili Atoll in the Marshalls, but rather in a location which enabled her to transmit radio messages for about one week following her disappearance.
They say she took off from Newfoundland and show a point on the north coast of Labrador where there is nothing, certainly no city to take off from. I don’t hold much hope for them finding her with this geography knowledge.
One day the wreckage of the plane will be found but sadly unless someone with lots of money and the determination to search a wide area we will have to keep wondering? RIP Amelia you will continue to be an unsolved mystery.🤔
LOL the "documentary" that claims to know where she crashed has no idea where she crashed. Almost like it's complete fing trash meant to fool you into thinking you're learning something.
Yes.....I seen that episode.....:-):-):-) so she is waiting in a planet somewhere in stasis for someone to come and revive her......I buy that,and you will probably find more famous people with her in stasis.......
My question is: which direction was she flying on the 157/337 line? north or south? Nobody aims directly for their mark, in navigating.. you aim slightly off, so you know which way to turn to cross it. Did she aim north of Howland? or south of it? This has been a standard tactic for 1000 years of sail and 100 years of flight. My guess is that she plotted south and turned north, where many have guessed she plotted just north and turned south. I think the plane is more likely to be found northeast of Howland.. perhaps as far as 200 miles that direction, also short of the island because of the increased fuel consumption. It is also possible that the inverse is true, and the plane will be found southeast of Howland.. but far short of any other island.
U find it reprehensible the treatment Fred Noonan received. If you read his bio you will understand why. He served in the merchant marine during WWl and had three ships sunk by U Boats. He was an aviation pioneer for years and contributed far more than Amelia.
I doubt they'll ever find her honestly!!! And them saying they solved this mystery is the bs all the docs on her say.. Have you assholes found her!? NO.. Let her fucking rest ffs!!! 😒😑
+Instacore they have and more as well spend way more money and have not nearly the idea where it crashed...you should read more about it...it is likely 4 miles down in a 1 million sq miles search area to boot.
To dare the difficult and dangerous, the heart of a true explorer. God bless you Amelia and Fred. She landed on Gardner atoll's shore and waited for rescue that never came. Very near an old steamer that ran aground there.
gloria commenting; Noonan wrote a letter to his wife expressing concern that the navigation maps he had been given were inaccurate.In fact,it was later determined that one map indicated Howland island to be thirty miles nearer than its true position.
The world was duped by GP Putnam. He saw a cash cow and jumped on it then forced her to do things that she couldn't possibly pull off by herself. Henry Manning, Paul mantz then Fred Noonan all we're going to come along with her on the world attempt westbound. When on the 2nd takeoff from Hawaii she crashed and Paul and Henry quit for their own safety. Noonan the drunk stayed on and killed himself along with a pilot who was just way over her head. No pun intended! GP was already in extramarital affair and then was married shortly after she disappeared. What is scum he must have been.
Yes, I think that’s one thing that is always overlooked in the dialogue. He was out there to make money, not to pioneer Amelia Earhart as if some noble virtue. Surely he could’ve found a better navigator and pulled this off with better planning and training.
The Electra was NOT the first ALL-metal plane ever built... The J-1 Blechesel in 1915 was. Also, Ground Effect is NOT a cushion of air. It's an elimination of drag. And it wasn't Papua New Guinea in 1937, it was simply New Guinea. And she didn't belly flop or she would have been IN the water (thus crashed). And why do you have Jet sound effects at 37:23? It was a reciprocating prop plane, and its engines quit. It would have been silent anyway. This film is littered with inaccuracies.
I'd heard that she crashed on a Japanese island, and the people there thought she was a Spy, so wouldn't allow her to leave and that when she died she was buried in a shallow grave near the shore. Probably isn't true, but it's a fun story.
Within a 500 sq mile blob near Howland... wow you guys are clearly experts at the top of your field. Pretty sure the Itasca radio operator could have told you that in 1937
When was this series first aired nearly twenty years ago? , and obviously they have not found her. Interesting to see if Tighar comes up with the wreckage off of the coast of Nikumaroro sometime soon.
Agree too.At least TIGHAR is trying to find facts and not find more speculations like that photo the History channel is making claims about her and Noonan on the dock.
Alan, Steve M., et. al., TIGHAR has a film, made from a helo flying over the island. in this film, they point out that the natives that lived there made/brought air plane parts with them/found made air plane parts that they may have recovered on the island. at no point do they say this is proof of her being there. they point out the parts are generic, from a WW2 bomber, and such. if they were out to make money, they would be saying this proves she was there. this group looking for her is honorable, professional and in my opinion trustworthy
Well, this is speculation and crap. She landed on Nikumaroro island, and died there. There is a lot of evidence to support that, including a skeleton of a Caucasian woman about her size and age, a photo that appears to be landing gear, and a short wave radio message picked up in Florida from Amelia, etc. This video tries to build suspense, but flops in the end.
Well, her trailing antenna, VITAL for HF communications broke off during the PNG departure. I know, as I spoke to Sid Marshall as a teenager, who was a veteran pilot operating in PNG at the time. Sid also helps Earhart and Noonan .re-fuel. One thing that always puzzles me is WHY Fred Noonan went along with it. I thought they would have turned around and landed to fix it, but the axel weight was to high for the landing gear.
Bisyhefr you are almost certainly right. I dont know why people have to make up outlandish stories to try to explain something with a simple explanation
PS- I'd thoroughly recommend the book 'Amelia Earhart:The Mystery Solved' by Elgen and Marie Long because it goes into incredible detail about radio frequencies etc. However I'd quibble with the 'mystery solved' claim, as the book only gives us a wealth of fascinating jigsaw pieces to put together ourselves, rather than a completed picture.
Quite correct, “mystery solved“ was just to sell books. It’s a plausible theory, but at best suggests the Electra went down in the ocean. There are still many unanswered questions, and it’s far from “solved“. Probably their editor insisted upon it.
Howland Island was only a mile or so wide, talk about a needle in a haystack! Also the sun was in her eyes approaching it, and if there was the slightest bit of haze she'd miss it easily. There was also some sort of messup with the radio direction finding, possibly because of a misunderstanding with the Itasca.
+Tungsten Kid she was bad with a radio and never installed military Navy crystals in the ham radio so this is wahy she was not heard...too focused on the finish line and never played it safe like noonan knew how to do..
Some have known for years that Earhart and Noonan ended up in the Marshall Islands and taken to Saipan by the Japanese Navy. The real question is why were they never released, and why did Japan and US govts keep it a secret.
We cant even find a 777, I doubt we will find a Lockheed Electra that by now will have next to nothing left of it, if any thing at all. I am sure Earhart would of much rather her crash site not be found so she can remain part of aviation folk law and the mystery be a reason why we have not forgotten what she achieved.
Excuse me. I forgot to state the reference which I quoted regarding Amelia Earheart's navigator, Frederick J. Noonan. It is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Noonan
Because when an airplane hits the water it often leaks oil and debris which would have floated to the top of the water. But yes that would be the most logical expaination but there is no evidence to support that theory. Today most people believe she was a castaway on Nikumaroro Island where she later died from lack of food and water.
Earhart said that women needed to take chances and grow. She did--the last flight is tragic, but she did what she loved, that's what matters. Had courage, natural charisma--and a great smile. She's an American original. Unforgettable.
and talent, of course
Excellent female pilots was hardly an unknown, even back then.
How about Hanna Reitsch for instance?
windstorm1000 true.
@WOKEN'T Ouch, she went throu AC like Kardashians do plastic surgerys. Not being interested in men she married for $. You don't accentuate the negative when promoting something. There was a lot of money to be gained or lost, rights to the story, a feather in Beeches hat, radio navigation was the newest and greatest feature in AC. and she was a hero to the womens movement. The majority of pilots that knew her firmly believed that she wasn't a good pilot. We love mysteries, putting clues together to form the solution to the puzzle. Throw in WWII and the possibility of her spying on the Japanese for America adds more intrigue. Pilotage and dead reckoning are extremely difficult over water because you have to make up check points, guesstimate the winds aloft, and come up with an answer. Just a guess in the middle of nowhere doesn't cut it. I think she she had an unexpected headwind, burned more fuel and surprise splash.
and lastly she was the brave
Im facinated with all this mystery im reading and seeing things I never thought possible from ghost ships to vanishing pilots im absolutely hooked im really enjoying this
It's good stuff, eh? I love bridge disasters too...
Nothing beats a good mystery....except solving one lol
Those who said Amelia wasn't a good pilot nor navigator were the chauvinistic men who were jealous of her piloting & navigational skills. She did so much to advance not only aviation but women's rights. She WAS A TRUE PIONEER! Bravo for ALL the amazing things that Amelia Earhart did & accomplished especially considering the LACK of technology that was available back in her era. Kudos to you Amelia wherever you are 🛫🕊
It is not fair to blame Earheart's navigator, Frederick J. Noonan (1893-1937). and his alleged drinking problem.
Noonan had a pilot's license, a sea license (#121190) which authorized him to "Master Class Navigator, any ocean" (i.e. license to navigate and pilot any ship, anywhere).
"Noonan was rumored to be a heavy drinker... That was fairly common during this era and there is no contemporary evidence Noonan was an alcoholic." Furthermore Noonan was NOT fired from Pan American, for drinking - as stated here.
Noonan was, by far, the most experienced aviator in that Lockheed Electra when he and Earthart disappeared. And as a professionel sailor, pilot and navigator, he knew how to operate a radio, too.
"During the early 1930s, he worked for Pan American World Airways as a navigation instructor in Miami and ... eventually assuming the duties of inspector for all of the company's airports.... Noonan was subsequently responsible for mapping Pan Am's clipper routes across the Pacific Ocean, participating in many flights to Midway Island, Wake Island, Guam, the Philippines, and Hong Kong.
[Thus, Noonan already had a] reputation as an expert navigator, along with his role in the development of commercial airline navigation, had already earned him a place in aviation history.
The tall, very thin, dark auburn-haired and blue-eyed 43-year-old navigator was living in Los Angeles. He resigned from Pan Am because he felt he had risen through the ranks as far as he could as a navigator, and he had an interest in starting a navigation school."
Sounds like the skipper of the EXXon VALDEEZ
robynn, you are correct in saying he was expert. what very few know, and i learned navigation before my navy time and had to get much better during those navy years, when you deal with crossing the international date line, everything about navigation changes. your almanac is based on date/time GMT specifically. stars are considered to be absolute, that is they do not move. (not concerned with the fact they are, we are talking tables of navigation, they are considered fixed and the earth's movement is then calculated)
when navigators who are not used to crossing the date line are doing so, the errors in navigation are huge. for our girl Amelia to get on the line which lead her to crash on the island ( say crash since her partner was injured) was no small feat. the was probably too far south due to compensation for what she assumed would be northern hemisphere winds when she was still south (she drifted further south) is remarkable.
it is always a pleasure to see a thinking, informed comment when i'm reading through what is posted. in a post that might not have posted, i noted the way direction finding worked and why radar if it existed would never be spoken of. look up "lucy has one eye" to get a perspective of radar at the time which even talking about it was dealt with severely
excellent post, robynn
Crossing the IDL, nothing about navigation changes.
robynn Wow ur so smart
Perhaps you missed the part where he got fired for being a drunk😑
I just listened again to the interview with Betty Klenck, the teenager in Florida that heard Amelia’s distress call. As a retired criminal investigator I am convinced she really did hear Amelia’s calls for help. She still had her notebook from 70+ years ago filled with contemporary notes, song lyrics and drawings with Amelia’s distress call right in the middle of it. There are too many details that she wrote down for it to be fake. She wrote “Howland”, “157”, and her descriptions of Amelia and Fred fighting over the microphone with Fred wanting out of the plane because it was too hot is just not something anybody would think to fake. In fact, two men did fake hearing her call and it was described as a sterile call for help with none of the drama that Betty described. Amelia simply had to have landed on an island somewhere and survived for a period, it’s more logical to assume that than to assumes Betty’s notes were faked. Occam’s Razor. The simplest solution is likely the answer. Running out of gas and plunging into the ocean was the simplest answer until I heard Betty’s story. I’m not saying it was Gardner Island but again Betty wrote down “sounds like New York City” and the wreck of the Norwich City is there. That is spooky. Betty heard Amelia crying and heard her last words. Now that she has passed, I wonder if Betty found out the truth.
Well said! Betty Klenck's transcript is incredibly compelling evidence that Earhart and Noonan landed at Nicomororo. My jaw dropped at the "New York City/Norwich City" part.
@@twinfairviews2893 She’s like a human cockpit voice recorder. At one point she said Fred’s voice wavered when he went to the back of the plane, and Amelia couldn’t see where he was. Then he was out of his mind fighting to get out because the plane was so hot, they wrestled over the microphone. Just too many emotional descriptions like those and that Amelia _was crying_ . All of her notes were in a notebook with contemporary evidence dating it to the correct time frame. It’s a shame Bob Ballard didn’t investigate it in the very first trip that Tighar took. I believe he might have found something but too many years and tropical storms have passed. I know I keep repeating myself, but I am impressed with Betty. I investigated fraud all over the world interviewing suspects and witnesses. I was a police Sgt. then went to work for a Fortune 50 company. People would make fraudulent claims about a product being defective and injuring them, it was my job to get to the truth. I know how a fake report would be composed and we actually have just such a fake report made by two guys who said they heard Amelia. Brief, to the point - _This is Amelia Earhart. We crashed on a deserted island. My navigator is hurt. Please help. Hurry!_
@KaLynne W what would you like to know? You should watch Betty’s video interview, it’s terrific.
@@robertansley6331 See, that last part, where the call he got was blunt and to the point just doesn’t sound right. Bettys sounds much more believable and it’s very likely it’s true. Details aren’t usually used, or at least not many, if someone is lying.
@@robertansley6331 where can I find the interview?
The aircraft depicted at 9:45, Avro Avian IV airworthy at the Golden Wings Flying Museum in Blaine, Minnesota. It was once the oldest flying aircraft in Australia and has been converted from an Avian II configuration. It is painted to represent G-EBUG, an aircraft Amelia Earhart flew across the United States in 1928-1929. In all, there are nine survivors of all marks from around the world.
Excellent. I watch it to the end.
May her soul rest in eternal peace.
Paul Kamakande.
Papua New Guinea
I already knew about her life and accomplishments and her mysterious disappearance, the reason i watched this one hour documentary was because i thought they finally found her plane wreckage or something.
This documentary surely gave me more information than i had, but it kept streching the same information for one hour..her disappearance is still mystery..
what about bermuda triangle ?
5 years after this vid and still no new findings
I just think it's funny how the started off by say that they know where the plane is FOR A FACT. But by the end of the show they speculate where the plane is..
2 companies spent several million dollars looking in the depths around Howland Island --
the end result was the same as 1937 when the Navy found absolutely wreckage let alone an oil slick!
They didn't find so much as a propeller blade from the plane because it NEVER sank near Howland Island!
I think the natives in the Marshall Islands and Saipan were telling the truth... she crashed hundreds of miles off-course. She had a LOT more fuel in that modified Electra than Elgen Long and the other "crash and sink" experts think.
The US Marines saw the Electra on Saipan in 1944... it was destroyed shortly after the occupation of the island by American forces to prevent certain truths being leaked to the public. It was an election year and it wouldn't look good if it appeared like an American president let one of his most famous supporters die in captivity when he knew all about her whereabouts. There's a decent case to be made that Earhart was spying on the Japanese Navy in 1937, trying to get evidence back to show they were building up fortifications on the islands and violating all kinds of treaties (which they did in fact).
Circumstantial evidence or not, there's a lot more people in Marshalls and Saipan saying she was there... They got a lot more to support them than the official storyline which the federal government doesn't have so much of a plane rivet's support for!
FYI, if people think crash and sink is a joke, TIGHAR's storyline is even sicker. It's a scam to get money from gullible who have too much money and don't know the story of Gardner Island better.... Earhart was never there and there's so much junk on that island from a half dozen different settlements that you can make it look like anything you want to people who don't know squat...
She's alive!!! It was her on the grassy knoll that killed JFK!!!! And she flew bigfoot to Roswell to meet elvis!!!!!!
+AvengerII I agree! I think they were captured by the Japanese and eventually shot as spies. They weren't necessarily spies but they were suspected and that was enough for the Japanese soldiers.
+Krisna Reece No one really knows what happened to her after the Japanese got her... There's two schools of thought there.
1) The simplest conclusion is that she died in captivity from disease or the Japanese eventually executed her (and Noonan) prior to the US forces landing on Saipan in 1944. Oh, by the way, the Saipan operation was the Pacific equivalent of D-Day!
The fact of the matter is that there is only hearsay about her fate. Unless someone comes up with identifiable DNA, an official post-loss report/secret document, all we've got is hearsay about her fate.
What happened to the Electra seems to be locked in. I've heard at least one story that they found a piece of the Electra some years back but it was never verified. There's another story that they DID find a hydraulic gauge or something to that effect on Saipan. Officially, nothing's been verified (as far as recovered wreckage/pieces) but it's almost certain that the plane was destroyed and buried on Saipan.
2) Earhart and Noonan were taken in by the Japanese but eventually repatriated to the States and assumed new identities. There's some circumstantial evidence for this... It's not that hard to find. A couple of books have been written about the possibility that she was returned to the US after WWII. There's some controversy over whether she applied for Japanese naturalization (she loved Japan but was no warmonger) prior to 1939 -- some documents suggest she did something that really teed off the FDR administration --, did some aeronautical consulting for Japanese manufacturers prior to WWII, and was possibly made to do some of the Tokyo Rose radio broadcasts.
It's really controversial stuff that paints her in a less-than-flattering light but people aren't looking at the entire picture here. She could have been duped, realized what was happening but was in a bad spot, and had no choice but to cooperate to a point. This storyline suggests she eventually ended up in a prisoner camp in China was she was liberated at the end of the War and taken back to the US under an assumed name: Irene Bolam.
As for Noonan? There's a lot less known about him, period... They have a hard time finding or DIDN'T find a birth certificate for him or his alleged post-loss alias, William Van Dusen. His story is even WEIRDER than Earhart's if you can believe that!
Yeah or probably smashed into a mountain in the storm
Very minor point: at 15:10 it is stated she left Newfoundland.
Yet the spot marked on the map is actually Labrador.
Newfoundland is the island to the southeast.....
Yeah Im glad these guys are not in the map making business
It was very interesting to see that when Amelia Earhart was trying to find Howland Island she was using a pattern that rescue divers use to find lost divers in the water but on a much larger scale.
"two hours of fuel remaining". That's really not much fuel if you think about it. If they got lost, they could easily burn that up. They ran out of fuel and they likely died on impact. Plane ditching is usually not successful. The ocean is huge. It would be a miracle to find a trace. No more mystery.
I am at a loss to understand all the vicious comments. What is it about Amelia Earhart that seems to attract the attention of the worst type of haters.
+rowbom I really don't know.
That is unnecessary to say that. How can you call making a solo flight across the Atlantic and then from Hawaii to mainland U.S.A. a failure. Most people could only hope to do what she did.
I don't hate her, I think she was kind of hot. But the whole escapade was a bad idea from the start. A bit ahead of technology for the day, obviously.
She was a successful woman. That's why.
The "Around the World" flight would have had a far greater chance of success had Amelia's ego not virtually predetermined its failure; she possessed no Morse ability, she chose to leave behind almost anything required for an emergency situation, and the entire Electra/US Coast Guard interface was ill-planned & unsuccessfully executed. In essence, Earhart assured both her own as well as Fred Noonan's death.
Thanks for Sharing... I have always been interested in this mystery
Nothing solved though an interesting documentary how can you say mystery solved without proof, complete waste of time once again regarding Amelia.
The Electra is such a beautiful piece of equipment. It's poetry in motion even while standing still.
No doubt Buick wanted to be amongst good company when it chose the nameplate for it's Electra sedan.
That's an interesting thought about the Buick Electra, so good in fact that I looked it up. Alas, the namesake of the Buick model was in fact a famous sculptor, Electra Waggoner Biggs, whose brother-in-law was both Buick and General Motor's President.
Good guess, though!
Yeah, and wing walker Jane Wicker owned one and crashed and died on it as well. Spooky.
@@easygoing2479 I think David Buick was long dead before (Alcohol poisoning. (Self-inflicted)
The Electra certainly was a beautiful aircraft, and so were the Buicks of that name!
His voice is so awesome!
The puff of dust under the airplane at 3:42 is the belly antenna getting scraped off on the rough dirt field. From that moment on, she was deaf.
Amelia and Fred died on Nikumaroro.
Thats a good notice. I wonder how try that really is. I thought the antenna was on top of the plane, shaped like a circle?
I did some checking, you are correct, Amelia died there and there is some physical proof of it. The human remains discovered there in 1940 and lost, were found again last year where they were sent by the British military, Fiji. DNA testing was done on the skull, although the tests were not 100% conclusive as the DNA was degraded, they got enough to determine that the remains were of a female of European descent and what they managed to salvage shows matches to Amelia's living relatives. They are around 85 to 90% positive that the remains are hers even though they cannot prove it 100%.
@@remenents100 I believe the transmitting antenna was on top and the receiving antenna was underneath the plane.
The exact location is 'top secret'... It is so secret, that even they have no idea where the location is. Now that is a secret!
I agree …. I don’t see why The location is so Top Secret for ….
@@seachris Because they do not know the location. I mean, the guy at the end went skydiving to better familiarize himself with the ocean and it's depths. That speaks volumes of the intelligence of these glory hounds.
They may as well have said “we ain’t got a damn clue either” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
the name of the account that made the comment is Russel Williams and he has a video about f18... There is also a convicted criminal that murdered two people named Russel Williams and he was a Colonel in the Canadian airforce, does anyone see this?
It seems highly likely that the storm at 5 hours was a major factor in the flight going way off course from the Howland Island target. Also, the Pacific is vast and Howland is a speck and coupled with technical problems, the flight appeared to be doomed from the start. It's possible that the trip was too much for Earhart and coupled with her exhaustion, it's not really surprising that they failed to land there. When the PNG pilot talks about how he would be very nervous about attempting a Howland island flight, it becomes clear how dangerous Earhart's attempt really was.
Correct, Julia, and Amelia was her own worst enemy by failing to properly plan & prepare for such an undertaking; example --- coordination between herself and the US Navy/US Coast Guard was very rudimentary at best. She & the Coast Guard cutter Itasca were transmitting to one another on different radio frequencies at different times; Amelia essentially killed herself plus one of the finest celestial navigators in the entire Pacific area.
Although, if she did indeed make it to Gardner, it could be said that she snapped out of that hubristic mentality, listened to Fred, and made an educated attempt at the Phoenix Islands. Doesn't change the fact that it shouldn't have got to that point, but its better than taking that recklessness all the way to the bottom of the ocean. If this is all true, we have to consider that the rescue attempt was botched.
So many variables and not much room for error. I know I'd have never had the guts to do it. Flying for so many hours when you're already exhausted, any little thing could bring tragedy.
Very true, and tragic. If the first attempt traveling west had been successful, she wouldn’t have been so exhausted on the most difficult leg of the journey over the vast Pacific. However, finding that tiny island with the technology at the time, especially when she didn’t really have mastery of it, was likely never going to end well. I admire her incredible bravery, but it was a very risky thing to do.
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A woman who was a farm girl in North western Ill. taught Amelia Earhart how to fly. The local woman's name is on a plague a mere block away from me as I sit here typing. . Her family home was bought then moved across the block from the "New" 1940 Post Office of this town. Amelia met Nita in California,where she was teaching others to "FLY!".
* you've spelled plague, as in black plague or bubonic, plaque is what honors someone, 😂😂😂kids these days, omg!! Dumb as a box of rocks
Thank you Naked Science for the interesting documentaries. Very cool stuff!
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What a beautiful airplane, the Lockheed L10A Electra. Beautiful plane! That and the Beech18.
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So within 500 square miles of the island. What a breakthrough!
Yup , only 500 ! Lol
That is 10x 50 miles or 20 x 25 mi which is remarkable in a vast body of water like the Pacific given the data to work from. Of course this assumes this team is correct. On e assumption is which ship they passed over. One thing I don’t understand about radios is why one party hears the other but not reciprocal in reception. My cell phone has done this so I know it happens but it is on terra firma.
It was the greatest aviation mystery up to that time, but one can reason that she got lost and ran out of gas. It was soon surpassed by the disappearance of the Hawaii Clipper in 1938. A Martin 130 flying boat disappeared just after leaving Guam. Since it was a flying boat flying over water, it should have been able to land on water, but to this day, no trace has been found of the 14 people aboard.
There's a newer documentary out. They found a campfire, dead roasted birds and American freckle cream on Nikamoru (used to be Gardner Island) and a photo with maybe an airplane wheel sticking out of the water, plus transcripts of further transmissions on her frequency where she calmed an apparently injured Noonan. But it's certain she didn't live long if that WAS her (which can't be proved of course)
They calculated the distances from her radio signal, but what if they had it backwards? You get the Nikumaroro side.
What????
Interesting perception
Amelia Was My Roommate's Aunt, When I Was In Architecture,
At Chicago Circle Campus.
Hardly think it's the greatest aviation mystery of all time. A jetliner that disappears in the 21st century or an airplane that disappears within sight of a major city are two that come to mind.
It isn't a mystery at all really... They got lost ran out of fuel and crashed and died
Fred may have been injured badly enough that they simply couldn’t remove him from aircraft.
Possible going into shock and unable to exit. He would have been taken to sea with the craft at tide regression.
Possible, but conjecture, but say both legs broken ( broken lower back by hard awkward landing) Amelia would not have been able to remove him.
The same stresses that damaged the right rear window attachment for hard landing ( perhaps fuselage twist deflection may have loosened aluminum sheet patch replacement. Could have been gathered by Amelia as possible signal mirror.
The island girl who remembered wreckage from that location may have been seeing the strut structure protruding from reef crack. The craft at high tide may have been pushed by empty fuel cells flotation and snapped off to remain as majority of craft was washed out to sea.
The strut itself in later years storm surge could have been dislodged and also lost to the sea.
You know I think running out of fuel over the ocean was most likely. But here's something to consider. If the plane was out of fuel, the giant 1000 gallon tank would make a great flotation device for the plane. It could have delayed it's sinking for hours. Especially if the wings broke off on impact. That means the currents could carry the plane miles before sinking.
Fume Ventilation and fuel dumping tubes flooded the empty tanks with water in almost immediately. From what I researched, simulations involving the 10E sink very quickly in water.
Anyone who obsesses over "records" and "needs the celebrity" is prone to be a gambler; and gamblers are known for making poor decisions when all the chips are down. Why she is still lauded by so many is a mystery to me. Earhart is an example of what not to do. Don't seek celebrity, don't seek records, above all, do not compare yourself to other people in your career field. Such self-destructive behavior is bound to catch up sooner rather than later.
Very well done documentary. Excellent production values, much better than most stuff around on the net regarding this aviation event. Thanks!
Well done if you're a dumb American. This is a shit documentary. This isn't a documentary - It's entertainment.
The "documentary" that claims to know where she crashed has no idea where she crashed. Almost like it's complete fing trash meant to fool you into thinking you're learning something.
How stupid are you? No, really?
So this was put on UA-cam eight years ago, and may have been recorded even earlier, I haven’t heard anything, so guessing they did not find the Electra in the Pacific. The odds of finding it are very remote. Probably Amelia Earhart remains in the “we’ll never know for certain on this side of eternity“ column.
Amelia Earhart…plane found....mabey watch ua-cam.com/video/vCikuQtoPjk/v-deo.html
Was it necessary for that Dr. woman recreating that flight from NY to get the same haircut and wear the same outfit?
I've had a close look at this incident & it is my humble opinion the plane is to the north north west of Howland Island, perhaps within 100km (60 miles). The plane is not to the south of Howland Island, as a lot of pundits suggest, & it certainly did not land on the exposed reef platform of Gardner Island everyone suggests it reached. That idea is preposterous! For 2 million US a dedicated search using Ocean Infinity technology would probably find it within 20 days (unless the whole thing has since been silted over)..
Well, since this video is now over 6 years old, nothing has been solved.
These comments are disappointing. The documentary is called “In Search of Amelia Earhart”, not “We Found Amelia Earhart”. It didn’t even use clickbait! Silly for you all to complain about a FREE documentary on UA-cam. Be a little more appreciative, it’s a well produced video! :)
I've studied this forr many minutes and came to the conclusion they got lost they ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean killing them both.. All this mystery stuff is pure guff
I think so to May they RIP
Many minutes? WOW! Aren't you invested? Hahaha, they've been looking for her for decades upon decades, who knew they just needed to wait for you to be born, and having studied one video for minutes you'd solve one of the world's longest running, oldest mysteries, my god why aren't you famous!? Hahaha Hahaha 😂😂😂😂 kids these days! Oyt of control and dumb as a box of rocks😂😂
Well gee, your intense study of “many minutes” far surpasses the experts, with actual evidence, and their studies for over 80 years. Good job, professor🙄
@@misssophie7717 All evidence points to they got lost ran out of fuel and crashed in the sea.. The rest is speculation and conspiracy theory professor..
I guess since you’ve studied it and gave your opinion, that must be concrete you sound like a typical American
im not trying to be negative or upset people here but ,should she really be listed as a (great pioneer) when she got lost trying to follow a straight line.
“We are extremely confident we are going to find her plane”
…..
Seven more years have passed…what’s the holdup?
Gotta run spellcheck.
Amelia was here for a good time, sadly, not a long time - what an amazing aviator, to try that with old style navigational skills, & in a time when few women even drove cars let alone fly planes around the world was simply Brave and amazing.....such people built the world back then, sadly such Bravehearts are are not around today.
!!!!! An Icon to Aviation forever in my eyes 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Everyone who has ever searched for her says they have found the answer. It's all conjecture.
No, she was found as was her Electra. Watch Earhart's Electra on Amazon or read Fred Goerners 1966 book which tells the story in excrutiating detail and documentation. It's corroberated testimony by hundreds of people and US Marines including many Flag Officers, few know of each other but all tell the same story of exactly what happened to Amelia. Its been known for decades. www.amazon.com/dp/B005KE8P9Y/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Yqo-EbG996S6T
Lots of peeps thought Saipan but there was a TEAM sent out here for several attempts to find anything and each time left empty handed. Was good hype for the news media and island but thats about it. Drank a few beers with the Retired American Airlines pilot, Tall lanky Texan, funny guy, He was part of the funded expedition team, even he left unconvinced. After almost 80 years and most that if they did know anything are now dementiated cant remember their own names or are dead like Noonan and Amelia. If US knew anything and is covering it up that likely proves she was on a mission from the funky expedition (Spying). Saipan, an island whos sole income relies on the TOURISM INDUSTRY was sure trying to make it she ended up there. Imagine how a declined Tourism industry would boom after that. No doubt Amelia Is a LEGEND and died doing what she loved. Thats what really matters!✌🏻🍻🇺🇸😊
Ok, just to save wasting your time, they didn't find anything, just the usual guessing and maybe's.
Why does this guy Franco keep posting about hacking his GF Instagram? I see that post on a lot of things and no I’m not clicking the link because it’s clearly going to be something awful just curious why?
There were ham radio operators and shortwave listeners on the West Coast of the U.S. that heard Amelia's distress call. The only way this would have been possible was if the plane engines were running, meaning that they landed somewhere. My theory is that they were captured by the Japanese and the plane was destroyed.
The problem with this documentary is it is assuming her final transmission was to the Itasca, that is not true, people on ham radio and short wave radio could hear Amelia as far as the east coast in the United States. A teenager in Florida could hear Amelia and even wrote what she said in a notebook.
JENDALL714 even the Itasca still heard her hours after the so called „last call“!
“ gas running low,,, we are on the line 157- 337 flying north and south “
Fred would not waste fuel flying in circles. That line flys directly over Gardner.
They took off with maximum fuel load for reserve of adverse head wind. Arrived at line southerly of Howland and cloud cover may have obscured horizon. Reception antenna below fuselage was damaged by main wheel kicked up stone on rough strip at Lae. Ship so heavy used all available runway.
At arrival over Itasca cloud cover. She was southerly of intended line.
She was low on fuel not out. Search on line for known chain by visual and minimal airspeed with now vastly lighter aircraft. Lean carburetor setting for maximum fuel conservation.
Remember the craft was a essentially a special adaptation for flying fuel tank with small space for Fred in tail. He could crawl over cells to access left seat however. Probably there to help visual at last moments. Radio may have been inadvertently made non transmitting in this leg of flight.
Tail wind from southern flight ( from Howland ) allowed remaining fuel to land at reef near Norwich City wreckage. Reef at low tide there is remarkable landing able. Radio was able to transmit ( from static position on reef) possibly by discovery of loose contact.
Low tide allowed for brief runs of right engine for power supply. High tide eventually takes craft out to sea. Fuel cells now exhausted provide as pontoon flotation for time enough to become hopelessly lost to history.
The best explanation I’ve heard so far
I watched an episode on Amelia Earhart on the tv show Unsolved Mysteries . There were witnesses on an island that saw a man and woman that matched the description of both Amelia and her co-pilot being taken captive and executed .It's also rumored the plane was set afire and parts discarded .
double42 I saw that too . A amazing
THERE WAS A LT. WHO WAS ASSIGN TO SIPAN IN 1944 , HIS DRIVER TOOK A WRONG TURN AND DROVE TO A BARRON PLACE WHERE HE SAW A PLANE. A GUY COME OUT OF THE BUILDING IN PLANE CLOSTH'S AND ASK WHAT R U DOING, TOLD HIM TO GET OUT. THE LT. TOOK DOWN THE # ON THE WING. NEVER TOLD ANYBODY ABOUT IT UNTILL YR'S LATER , AND FOUND OUT THAT IT WAS AMELIA'S PLANE.
I suspect that this is what prob really happened. I wish if so, the Gove would tell us JUST TELL THE TUTH!.What can happen now?I think people will understand that if she was spying she was a war causality .No reason to be mad at Japan now,. I don't get the reason for such secrecy.
Oh yeah? Well I heard that she was plucked out of the sky by aliens from Mars. They anally probed her then took her to Mars. But thankfully I'm not as stupid as you people so I can just accept we don't know the answer.
THis video is 9 years ago as of February 11 2024 - wtf - did you find the plane already ?
Papua New Guinea - a remote island only 150km from Australia, pretty close to Indonesia, and regularly visited for the past two centuries. How remote can that be?
Even with all the technological advancements there is in air travel where is Flight MH370?
I’d say poor Amelia is lost forever
They talked to other woman pilots in her era even when she was alive they said she was getting into crashes frequently and on her last flight she cut corners tol
TIGHAR. Why wasn't the baby skeleton tested DNA for Amelia? She was a women and Fred was male. Also, rumor was she was already pregnant before she left California. In a TIGHAR expedition uncovered a baby skeleton but safely placed back in the shallow grave. It is common sense to test that DNA. It could have been still born or died shortly after birth. It is possible. So why wasn't it tested?
New Info , point of touchdown.
STH 1 DEG 35 MIN 59 SEC.
WEST 175 DEG 00 MIN 18 SEC.
Google:Amelia Earhart point of touchdown 2nd July 1937
I heard that her radio receiver antenna was lost on takeoff from Lae. She could transmit but not receive.
I've heard that also. The puff from the pane on takeoff was her antenna hitting some mound or something. It seems hard to believe they did not test their radio before going way out over water.
When you read The Spirit of St Louis it's really boring as Lindberg goes on and on about working with the guys at Ryan and all the details about testing the airplane. He knew exactly what the plane would do and planed every detail and tested every piece of equipment.
When Earhart flew the Atlantic in the Vega she got the plane from the factory and busted out over the ocean without even breaking in the engine. It had a bad weld in the exhaust system that would have been discovered if she had done a few maintenance and test flights. As it was the exhaust leak became very serious.
Being a so called good pilot has many factors to it. Airplane handling is only one part of it. Her bad decision making and general incompetence that was revealed by her foolish flight in the Vega and in many ways on many occasions was going to get her killed sooner or later.
Humans guessing signal strengths, and then the "the computers ran the numbers" to contrive a crash site. Yeah man that sound plausible! Garbage in garbage out.
There is so much wrong with this whole vid.
MAY YOU ALL HATERS STOP COMMENTING STUFF LIKE "Go back to the kitchen"!? TODAY IN THE 21st century, people aren't sexist. People that are sexist are you all crazy mofos that are just wasting time. She is a aviation hero and no one can doubt that. No one is to blame. Even if she left the morse code thing it is reasonable to leave it due to the circumstances. The only thing I'm hating on is the company that helps locate it. They are just doing it to get fame and be more popular. They don't deserve to be the ones with the information. If they were truly trying to find Amelia, they would let other people help find her. Amelia, we (me and the non haters) praise you for the legacy you left behind, I will always remember you. 🙏🏽🙏🏽
People like you inspire to me to become a pilot. Thank you Amelia -Kenny
+Kenny Chuwing CLAP CLAP CLAP that was deep man i love that.
+Kenny Chuwing
No one is to blame? Really?
+Kenny Chuwing +100500!
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So go ahead and earn some base for respect yourself before trying to lecture people what hey have to say and to do. Just go ahead, blah-blah-blah doesn't count. How about to fly across the Atlantic alone in the night in a bad weather without radio? Go ahead, be a hero!
Morse code is so easy to learn. I can teach anyone in a few hours and to be fairly fluent with it in a day. Sad to think about how that one crucial thing could have saved their lives being into amateur radio and knowing how efficiently and effectively CW propagates through the air with very little radiated power.
Go on then.
cobrasvt347: It may be "easy" but not if you don't have a Morse-key with you (as explained in the video).
Invariably, the most obvious answer is the correct one. She crashed into the sea, her plane's fuel exhausted. Still, the unknown provides great material for the human imagination. Now, the winter of 2024, there appears compelling evidence of the plane's location. Should it be found, the mystery ends and, in. sense, that will be sad.
31:47 "She would never set foot on land again."
This is sheer speculation, not proven fact.
And disproved outright if the post-loss radio signals are legitimate. This is why I have so much trouble with the "crash and sink" theory.
just not on Earth
how did they get her diary? did she leave it in png after writing that entry about it
This video suggests that she was navigating. She was not, she had one the best celestial Uses sextan to navigate by position of the sun) navigators available. Not so bad using a compass the stay on the proper heading, especially with height to compensate for slight errors.
Unfortunately they couldn't see the stars so he couldn't navigate . I hope some day they find her DNA if not the plane
Someone should present the evidence that Noonan was a drunk. There is none. A lot of people enjoy a drink now and then, even have too much on occasion. That doesn’t make you a drunk, and he wasn’t fired by PanAm, he quit.
The ocean is so deep... If she did crash no way you'd find her airplane
Elizabeth Stephanie Have you seen the photo of her that just came out? check it out.
Earhart landed her Lockheed L10E, not on Mili Atoll in the Marshalls, but rather in a location which enabled her to transmit radio messages for about one week following her disappearance.
13:00 what technology was used to relocate Los Angeles? why when they moved LA did they leave the Salton Sea?
"Who wants to lead a life of comfort and safety."
-A. Earhart
16:37 Sorry to tell you, but the first all metal airplane ever built was 20 years earlier and it was the Junkers J.1.
Man of Mayhem it was Lokheed‘s first all metal plane, not the first at all.
Paul Bislin Ok. I guess the video was a bit misleading (me). Thx for the clarification.
She was so close 😭
I know. It’s heartbreaking. 😢💔
They say she took off from Newfoundland and show a point on the north coast of Labrador where there is nothing, certainly no city to take off from. I don’t hold much hope for them finding her with this geography knowledge.
One day the wreckage of the plane will be found but sadly unless someone with lots of money and the determination to search a wide area we will have to keep wondering? RIP Amelia you will continue to be an unsolved mystery.🤔
The wreckage will never be found it was burnt in 1944 by US troops on Saipan Rooseveldt betrayed her.
LOL the "documentary" that claims to know where she crashed has no idea where she crashed. Almost like it's complete fing trash meant to fool you into thinking you're learning something.
@@johnsmith-mq4eq 🤪🤪🤪
So…7 years ago, this program stated that they’ll explain and find Amelia…..apparently I haven’t heard that news yet.
Suffice she wont be coming back
She survived and starred in a Star Trek Voyager episode called “The 37’s!” Lol!
Yes.....I seen that episode.....:-):-):-) so she is waiting in a planet somewhere in stasis for someone to come and revive her......I buy that,and you will probably find more famous people with her in stasis.......
And she looked even hotter as well!
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So if someone made a joke out of your family member that died would you find it funny? Keep that in mind next time you lose someone
@@AECRADIO1 yes she did and that was no easy feat to pull off😜
Still not found eight years on...
My question is: which direction was she flying on the 157/337 line? north or south? Nobody aims directly for their mark, in navigating.. you aim slightly off, so you know which way to turn to cross it. Did she aim north of Howland? or south of it? This has been a standard tactic for 1000 years of sail and 100 years of flight. My guess is that she plotted south and turned north, where many have guessed she plotted just north and turned south. I think the plane is more likely to be found northeast of Howland.. perhaps as far as 200 miles that direction, also short of the island because of the increased fuel consumption. It is also possible that the inverse is true, and the plane will be found southeast of Howland.. but far short of any other island.
Well, according to the guy in this video, he knows exactly where it is but it's a "top secret"! Am I the only one here who can smell the bullshit??
She is near Howland island. She didn’t state a direction In her radio calls, which is why she’s so hard to find
U find it reprehensible the treatment Fred Noonan received. If you read his bio you will understand why. He served in the merchant marine during WWl and had three ships sunk by U Boats. He was an aviation pioneer for years and contributed far more than Amelia.
waste of time dont watch it..they didnt find her..they just said she might be somewhere in the water,,
She is not in the water they found SOME of her remains near water. I know all this because I am nine and a half 😇😇😇😇😇😁😊
Lacie Coleman
they found only the plane parts not her body
ashwin padmakumar Is there a video on this you can suggest?
I doubt they'll ever find her honestly!!! And them saying they solved this mystery is the bs all the docs on her say.. Have you assholes found her!? NO.. Let her fucking rest ffs!!! 😒😑
When will they do a search just as detailed with Mh370? Jeez....
+Instacore they have and more as well spend way more money and have not nearly the idea where it crashed...you should read more about it...it is likely 4 miles down in a 1 million sq miles search area to boot.
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O-M-G!!! @ 50:30, did the ''sky-diving expert'' use the word ''heightH'', instead of ''height''??????? Seriously?
To dare the difficult and dangerous, the heart of a true explorer.
God bless you Amelia and Fred.
She landed on Gardner atoll's shore and waited for rescue that never came. Very near an old steamer that ran aground there.
Is this a true story, and if so whats the evidence?
gloria commenting; Noonan wrote a letter to his wife expressing concern that the navigation maps he had been given were inaccurate.In fact,it was later
determined that one map indicated Howland island to be thirty miles nearer than its true position.
6 miles.
The world was duped by GP Putnam. He saw a cash cow and jumped on it then forced her to do things that she couldn't possibly pull off by herself. Henry Manning, Paul mantz then Fred Noonan all we're going to come along with her on the world attempt westbound. When on the 2nd takeoff from Hawaii she crashed and Paul and Henry quit for their own safety. Noonan the drunk stayed on and killed himself along with a pilot who was just way over her head. No pun intended! GP was already in extramarital affair and then was married shortly after she disappeared. What is scum he must have been.
Yes, I think that’s one thing that is always overlooked in the dialogue. He was out there to make money, not to pioneer Amelia Earhart as if some noble virtue. Surely he could’ve found a better navigator and pulled this off with better planning and training.
The Electra was NOT the first ALL-metal plane ever built... The J-1 Blechesel in 1915 was. Also, Ground Effect is NOT a cushion of air. It's an elimination of drag. And it wasn't Papua New Guinea in 1937, it was simply New Guinea. And she didn't belly flop or she would have been IN the water (thus crashed). And why do you have Jet sound effects at 37:23? It was a reciprocating prop plane, and its engines quit. It would have been silent anyway. This film is littered with inaccuracies.
I liked the part where the narrator says, " Amelia had to gun the engines." V1 Vr gun it lol
I'd heard that she crashed on a Japanese island, and the people there thought she was a Spy, so wouldn't allow her to leave and that when she died she was buried in a shallow grave near the shore.
Probably isn't true, but it's a fun story.
Within a 500 sq mile blob near Howland... wow you guys are clearly experts at the top of your field. Pretty sure the Itasca radio operator could have told you that in 1937
When was this series first aired nearly twenty years ago? , and obviously they have not found her. Interesting to see if Tighar comes up with the wreckage off of the coast of Nikumaroro sometime soon.
tighar reckon she is nowhere near where this video says
Agreed
Thanks
Agree too.At least TIGHAR is trying to find facts and not find more speculations like that photo the History channel is making claims about her and Noonan on the dock.
Alan, Steve M., et. al., TIGHAR has a film, made from a helo flying over the island. in this film, they point out that the natives that lived there made/brought air plane parts with them/found made air plane parts that they may have recovered on the island. at no point do they say this is proof of her being there. they point out the parts are generic, from a WW2 bomber, and such. if they were out to make money, they would be saying this proves she was there. this group looking for her is honorable, professional and in my opinion trustworthy
Well, this is speculation and crap. She landed on Nikumaroro island, and died there.
There is a lot of evidence to support that, including a skeleton of a Caucasian woman about her size and age, a photo that appears to be landing gear, and a short wave radio message picked up in Florida from Amelia, etc. This video tries to build suspense, but flops in the end.
Well, her trailing antenna, VITAL for HF communications broke off during the PNG departure. I know, as I spoke to Sid Marshall as a teenager, who was a veteran pilot operating in PNG at the time.
Sid also helps Earhart and Noonan .re-fuel. One thing that always puzzles me is WHY Fred Noonan went along with it. I thought they would have turned around and landed to fix it, but the axel weight was to high for the landing gear.
I think Amelia Earhart died doing what she loved I admire her spirit courage bravery she was dynamic
what a mystery......... she is on the bottem of the sea......... people always wanna make a story... she crashed and sunk... simple as that
yeah your right
No, it's not "as simple as that;" those numerous post-loss messages verify that the Electra was located somewhere on its own landing gear.
Robert Lichtenberger you’re both wrong
Bisyhefr you are almost certainly right. I dont know why people have to make up outlandish stories to try to explain something with a simple explanation
What caused her to veer north in the first place? I know the storm forced her to climb, did it also force her north as well?
women drivers"
+Fula Bela lool
she was forced to drop lower, because of clouds ,that time of day and puts shadows on water .very hard to see, missed island ect
Anybody have any proof that Fred was an
"expert" navigator.
not if you can see to fix positions
PS- I'd thoroughly recommend the book 'Amelia Earhart:The Mystery Solved' by Elgen and Marie Long because it goes into incredible detail about radio frequencies etc.
However I'd quibble with the 'mystery solved' claim, as the book only gives us a wealth of fascinating jigsaw pieces to put together ourselves, rather than a completed picture.
Quite correct, “mystery solved“ was just to sell books. It’s a plausible theory, but at best suggests the Electra went down in the ocean. There are still many unanswered questions, and it’s far from “solved“. Probably their editor insisted upon it.
Howland Island was only a mile or so wide, talk about a needle in a haystack!
Also the sun was in her eyes approaching it, and if there was the slightest bit of haze she'd miss it easily.
There was also some sort of messup with the radio direction finding, possibly because of a misunderstanding with the Itasca.
+Tungsten Kid she was bad with a radio and never installed military Navy crystals in the ham radio so this is wahy she was not heard...too focused on the finish line and never played it safe like noonan knew how to do..
Some have known for years that Earhart and Noonan ended up in the Marshall Islands and taken to Saipan by the Japanese Navy. The real question is why were they never released, and why did Japan and US govts keep it a secret.
I agree and have my own ideas regarding those questions.
Where's the Proof???...
We cant even find a 777, I doubt we will find a Lockheed Electra that by now will have next to nothing left of it, if any thing at all. I am sure Earhart would of much rather her crash site not be found so she can remain part of aviation folk law and the mystery be a reason why we have not forgotten what she achieved.
Lesson learned: Don't let the drunk guy navigate
Excuse me. I forgot to state the reference which I quoted regarding Amelia Earheart's navigator, Frederick J. Noonan. It is: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Noonan
Obviously she crashed into the ocean and died. Why is it so difficult for people to believe the obvious?
Because when an airplane hits the water it often leaks oil and debris which would have floated to the top of the water. But yes that would be the most logical expaination but there is no evidence to support that theory. Today most people believe she was a castaway on Nikumaroro Island where she later died from lack of food and water.
Because that didn't happen . Read my comments about what really happened .
+David Suggitt well said...it is because people want to believe in nonsense.
Because the gov't lies to us about everything! that's why!
David Because she died on Saipan
They obviously weren't as close as they thought because this was filmed in 2001/02 and 23 years later they are no closer to the discovery.