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Artifacts reveal amelia earhart survived as castaway on remotepacific island by ferujkll sdff
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Artifacts reveal amelia earhart survived as castaway on remotepacific island by FERUJKLL SDFF
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For decades, pioneer aviator Amelia Earhart was said to have disappeared over the Pacific on her quest to circle the globealong a 29,000-mile equatorial route. Now, new information gives a clearer picture of what happened 75years ago to Ms. Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan, where theycame down and how they likely survived for a while, at least as castaways on a remote island, catching rainwater and eatingfish, shellfish, and turtles to survive. The tale hints at lost opportunities to locate and rescue the pairin the first crucial days after they went down, vital informationdismissed as inconsequential or a hoax, the failure to connectimportant dots regarding physical evidence. RECOMMENDED: Are you scientifically literate? Take the quiz The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), anon-profit foundation promoting aviation archaeology and historicaircraft preservation, reported new details Friday leadingresearchers to this conclusion: Earhart and Noonan, low on fuel andunable to find their next scheduled stopping point HowlandIsland radioed their position, then landed on a reef atuninhabited Gardner Island, a small coral atoll now known asNikumaroro Island.
Using what fuel remained to turn up the engines to recharge thebatteries, they continued to radio distress signals for severaldays until Earhart s twin-engine Lockheed Electra aircraft wasswept off the reef by rising tides and surf. Using equipment notavailable in 1937 digitized information management systems,antenna modeling software, and radio wave propagation analysisprograms, TIGHAR concluded that 57 of the 120 signals reported atthe time are credible, triangulating Earhart s position to havebeen Nikumaroro Island. "Amelia Earhart did not simply vanish on July 2, 1937, RichardGillespie, executive director of TIGHAR, told Discovery News. Radio distress calls believed to have been sent from the missingplane dominated the headlines and drove much of the US Coast Guardand Navy search. "When the search failed, all of the reported post-loss radiosignals were categorically dismissed as bogus and have been largelyignored ever since," Mr.
Gillespie said. But the results of thestudy, he said, suggest that the aircraft was on land and on itswheels for several days following the disappearance. In addition, several artifacts found years ago some of itdiscovered by Pacific islanders who later inhabited the island seem to confirm TIGHAR s conclusion. These include broken glass artifacts showing evidence of secondaryuse as tools for cutting or scraping; large numbers of fish andbird bones collected in, or associated with, ash and charcoaldeposits; several hundred mollusk shells, as well as bones from atleast one turtle; bone fragments and dried fecal matter that mightbe of human origin.
A photo taken three months after Earhart s flight shows what couldbe the landing gear of her aircraft in the waters off the atoll. Analyses of the artifacts, faunals and data collected during theexpedition are on-going but, at this point, everything supports thehypothesis that the remains found at the site in 1940 were those ofAmelia Earhart, according to TIGHAR. Other artifacts (some of them reported in 1940 but then lost)include a bone-handled pocket knife of the type known to have beencarried by Earhart, part of a man s shoe, part of a woman s shoe,a zipper of the kind manufactured in the 1930s, a woman s compact,and broken pieces of a jar appearing to be the same size andunusual shape as one holding Dr. Berry's Freckle Ointment. (Earhart was known to dislike her freckles.) In July, TIGHAR researchers will return to the area where Earhartand Noonan are thought to have spent their last days, usingsubmersibles to try and detect the famous aircraft they believe tohave been swept off a Pacific reef in 1937.
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