US to search again for Amelia Earhart's plane

[Deberg_1990]

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.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by alpha_omega

As much as i would like to agree...it does say in the article that "private funds" are being used.

Oh, alright then. Good show.

[kepp]

Originally Posted by Amnorix

best thing about the story:

Yeah, my first thought was, "What am I paying for now?"

[Titty Meat]

I bet she used to grunt like a pirate with stage 4 throat cancer when she would get boinked.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by LiveSteam

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

Watch that term. The banhammer lurketh.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by kepp

Yeah, my first thought was, "What am I paying for now?"

Hell, I'd rather pay for that than three-quarters of the shit I am paying for. At least this is interesting.

[vailpass]

Hopefully Smithsonian Magazine does a piece on this. They do a kick-ass job and this seems right up their alley.

[gblowfish]

She looks like David Bowie.

[Rain Man]

Come on. This is ridiculous. Even if she survived the crash, the odds of her still being alive are almost zero. Give it up.

[LiveSteam]

Originally Posted by vailpass

Watch that term. The banhammer lurketh.

I apologize if I offended anyone that salutes that stupid ****ing meatball

[Donger]

Originally Posted by LiveSteam

I apologize if I offended anyone that salutes that stupid ****ing meatball

I'm so unaware of some things, that I didn't realize what the meaning of that song was until the mid-2000s and my wife clued me in.

[LiveSteam]

Originally Posted by Donger

I'm so unaware of some things, that I didn't realize what the meaning of that song was until the mid-2000s and my wife clued me in.

masturbation will also give you 'hairy palms

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by LiveSteam

I apologize if I offended anyone that salutes that stupid ****ing meatball

[ToxSocks]

Why would they do this? I thought it was pretty much accepted that the sea monster from the Bermuda Triangle ate it.

[Chiefshrink]

Originally Posted by alnorth

We pretty much know now that Earhart landed in a reef near Nikumaroro. In 1940, a skeleton was found on the deserted island, but unfortunately, after taking measurements of the bones, they mistakenly concluded it couldn't have been her, and the bones were lost. (When modern anthropologists looked at the measurements that were recorded, they concluded it was probably a tall female)

People have also found odd items on that island that appear to have possibly been items on her plane crafted into crude tools. No one knows if her navigator survived the landing, but Earhart probably died on the island, either of starvation, exposure, or maybe even suicide. We don't have definitive proof, but if they could find her plane, that would clinch it.

The shame of it is that a British survey group visited the island to see if it was militarily useful on December 1938. If she could have figured out a way to hang on for a year and a half, she would have been rescued.

Absolutely love this stuff !! Thx Al !!

[J Diddy]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

Why would they do this? I thought it was pretty much accepted that the sea monster from the Bermuda Triangle ate it.

See, it's stupid ****ing shit like this is how rumors get started.


It was the ****ing aliens dude.