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Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Discovered Photo Suggests
A newly discovered photograph suggests legendary aviator Amelia Earhart, who vanished 80 years ago on a round-the-world flight, survived a crash-landing in the Marshall Islands. The photo, found in a long-forgotten file in the National Archives, shows a woman who resembles Earhart and a man who appears to be her navigator, Fred Noonan, on a dock. The discovery is featured in a new History channel special, "Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence," that airs Sunday. (www.nbcnews.com) और अधिक...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
After further investingtion, this picture was taken 2 years prior to her disapearance. There were no Japanese people in the photo. The photo may be real but the timeline is wrong.
The photo was published 2 years before she disappeared. Pretty lame effort.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/amelia-earhart-lost-photograph-discredited-spd/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/amelia-earhart-lost-photograph-discredited-spd/
In another discussion group it was pointed out that this "lost" photo was published in a Japanese language travel book about the south sea islands ... two years before the RTW flight attempt.
http://yamanekobunko.blog52.fc2.com/blog-entry-338.html
So if this Japanese book and publication date is genuine then it sure shoots this latest "conspiracy theory" in the foot.
http://yamanekobunko.blog52.fc2.com/blog-entry-338.html
So if this Japanese book and publication date is genuine then it sure shoots this latest "conspiracy theory" in the foot.
Nice find. This mystery may or may not be solved before I file my final flight plan. Would you mind posting the link to the discussion group?
It doesn't surprise me that there are photographs still showing up in this day and age. With everything so interconnected these days people forget that there are old photographs in files and archives and peoples shoeboxes that no one may have looked at in years or shared with anyone. I myself have a 8 x 10 photo of Earhart and Noonan taken in Hawaii on their first aborted round the world attempt. It's stamped USN on the back and may have been taken by my father or a fellow USN photographer at Pearl Harbor. I've shared it a few times on Facebook in the last year but before that no one not in my family had seen it in years, if not at all. So I don't find this photo incredible at all and if the experts really are as expert as they supposedly are its likely authentic.
I stayed on both Tinian & Saipan during a brief assignment for the USG in 1981. During a dinner conversation with the then Saipan airport boss and an old timer pilot that ran a for-hire Marianas Islands flight service, our long-time interest in the Earhart story became a topic of discussion. Both of these gents spoke of their direct association with Saipan elders that knew of the "English woman and man" held prisoner by the Japanese on Saipan. I'll definitely be tuning in to the History Channel's update on this mystery. Keeping an open mind.
I suppose there is validity to the rumor that some are like chickens, awakening in a new world daily. This is old news. Just adds the rumor that they were captured....Even some of the "news" channels have done specials on it, some going back three years, reporting on artifacts found in subsequent exploration. This twist is another money generator.