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★ Legacy Member ★ Poster Rank:12 Join Date: Jun 2009 Mentioned: 281 Post(s) Quoted: 32531 Post(s)
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Amelia Earhart....Not as famous anymore.
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Interesting info.... Possible Wreckage Found In July of 2013, TIGHAR (The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery) detected an anomaly using side scan sonar off the coast of Nikumaroro island, an uninhabited tropical atoll in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati which was the target of TIGHAR's underwater search in 2012. Upon review, it was determined that the anomaly resembles that of a crashed Lockheed Electra, the type of plane which Earhart was flying. TIGHAR believes that they have found evidence that the plane crash landed on the shallow reef before being washed to its current position a few hundred yards off the reef itself. Past expeditions on the island have turned up some curious artifacts, in particular 1930's anti freckle cream, an American made woman's compact, and buttons and zipper from a flight jacket. TIGHAR theorizes that Earhart made a water landing and she and her copilot survived on the remote island for a time, before succumbing to starvation. They plan to return to the island in 2014 to better inspect the wreckage found, and perform an archaeological dig on the site in the hopes of finding remains. |
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If it is to believed the aircraft was still flying for 5hrs after last known contact they took their time.
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The autopilot doesn't land the plane, if it was on they would have headed toward an airport and it would just continue flying past is until it ran out of gas..
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★ Legacy Member ★ Poster Rank:12 Join Date: Jun 2009 Mentioned: 281 Post(s) Quoted: 32531 Post(s)
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They (being) the experts are in no doubt the transponder was deliberately turned off so the aircrafts movements couldn't be tracked...Now in any emergency scenario these pilots had trained emergency simulator mock ups they wouldn't have involved doing that...Its crazy that they can\could...There is no valid reason for doing so other than criminal intent.
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BTW, these planes do have automatic landing systems. |
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