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US to search again for Amelia Earhart's plane
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20...earharts-plane
The State Department plans to join a new effort to find the plane of pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart, 75 years after she mysteriously disappeared over the South Pacific. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will take part in a ceremony Tuesday morning announcing the joint public-private search at the State Department, The Wall Street Journal reports. The event, "Amelia Earhart, a Pacific Legacy," which is pitched as a celebration of the U.S.'s pan-Pacific ties, will be streamed live at 9 a.m. on the State Department's website, a spokesman for the agency said. Earhart's twin-engine Lockheed vanished July 2, 1937, as she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, left New Guinea (now Papua New Guinea) on their way to Howland Island in the South Pacific as part of an attempt to circle the Earth. The search will center on the Nikumaroro Islands in the South Pacific. The half-million-dollar search, financed with private funds, will begin in July. The key area is the Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro between Hawaii and Australia, The Journal reports: A search team will concentrate on the deep waters near Nikumaroro, which was the site of a 2010 search that focused on coral reefs and nearby shallow waters, these people said. The search will be spearheaded again by the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, which has championed the theory that the renowned female aviator and Fred Noonan, the other crew member on the July 1937 flight, ended up on or near the west coast of the island, formerly called Gardner Island. |
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03-20-2012, 08:41 AM | #16 |
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Amelia Earhart was cool as shit.
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she's cool
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looks like paradise
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03-20-2012, 08:53 AM | #20 |
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03-20-2012, 08:54 AM | #21 |
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03-20-2012, 09:02 AM | #22 |
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This is cool! Amelia is one of my female heros and she did what she did before AA too.
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03-20-2012, 09:06 AM | #23 |
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03-20-2012, 09:08 AM | #24 |
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Please ask them to look for us a QB, along their path.
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03-20-2012, 09:09 AM | #25 |
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I thought they were captured by the Japs & shot as spies.
Has this been debunked? Goerner heard other reports that Earhart's plane may have gone down in the Marshall Islands. The Marshall Islands are much closer to Howland than Siapan. U.S. Naval personnel stationed in the area during World War II reported hearing stories from the Islanders that were very similar to those told on Siapan: Two flyers, a man and a woman, crash landed and were taken captive by the Japanese. No proof emerged from these accounts either, though Goerner finally reached the conclusion that Earhart probably crashed in the Marshall Islands and was later held captive on Siapan. The Search Co
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03-20-2012, 11:04 AM | #26 |
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I think there was a rumor that she was Tokyo Rose.
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This is certainly better money spent then having a hot dog with PM of Great Britain
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03-20-2012, 11:36 AM | #28 |
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03-20-2012, 11:37 AM | #29 |
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We should be spending money or give-a-shits on this why?
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