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Off topic: Amelia Earheart's plane wreckage may have been found.
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Amelia Earheart
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Date: March 12, 2014 08:24PM
By Megan Cloherty
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Experts say the rivets and their pattern on this plane fuselage discovered on the island match the repair records of Earheart's Lockheed Electra. (WTOP/Megan Cloherty)
WASHINGTON - Amelia Earheart's plane disappeared in 1937 and it remains one of the world's enduring mysteries. Now, explorers are excited about new evidence that could confirm that artifacts found on a remote South Pacific island are from the wreckage of her plane.
The National Group for Historic Aricraft Recovering is making its 11th trip this coming fall to the island of Nickumaroro where increasingly, evidence of a plane crash there points to the Earheart wreck.
The TIGHAR team of archaeologists and plane crash recovery experts are going back yet again to connect the dots they know of, and experiment with new technology which could help them uncover more.
"My personal goal is to find out for sure what happened to Amelia Earheart. If there's a whole chapter of her life surviving as a castaway on a waterless Pacific atoll. We should know that," says TIGHAR executive director Ric Gillespie.
The collected details thus far are these: Human remains were found on the island three years after Earheart's plane disappeared that are believed to be a woman's. There is a piece of plane fuselage that the team's director believes washed up on shore many years ago which has rivet marks that match repair records of Earhart's Lockheed Electra. Finally, campsite artifacts recovered on the island date to the 1930's and were manufactured in America.
Some of those items were a women's compact and freckle cream jar manufactured in the U.S. around that decade.
"The fact that we have artifacts from the '30s from America on this island doesn't mean they were Earheart's, but if they're not Earheart's we've got to ask, 'Whose were they?'," says archaeologist Thomas King.
He is concerned with preserving whatever the team finds on the island or around its reef slope. He pointed specifically to any remnants of the plane, which was aluminum, submerged for this long would be particularly difficult to bring back for lab testing.
"I've seen aluminum come out of salt water after 40, 50 years and practically explode. It just has a very dramatic oxidation. So you really want to be very careful and anything we find is going to have to be either left down there or brought into a controlled environment very quickly," King says.
The island of Nikumaroro is uninhabited, very hot and full of wildlife, Gillespie says. The group is looking for sponsorship and funding, even reserving four spots for individuals who want to pay to experience the exploration first-hand.
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Experts say the rivets and their pattern on this plane fuselage discovered on the island match the repair records of Earheart's Lockheed Electra. (WTOP/Megan Cloherty)
WASHINGTON - Amelia Earheart's plane disappeared in 1937 and it remains one of the world's enduring mysteries. Now, explorers are excited about new evidence that could confirm that artifacts found on a remote South Pacific island are from the wreckage of her plane.
The National Group for Historic Aricraft Recovering is making its 11th trip this coming fall to the island of Nickumaroro where increasingly, evidence of a plane crash there points to the Earheart wreck.
The TIGHAR team of archaeologists and plane crash recovery experts are going back yet again to connect the dots they know of, and experiment with new technology which could help them uncover more.
"My personal goal is to find out for sure what happened to Amelia Earheart. If there's a whole chapter of her life surviving as a castaway on a waterless Pacific atoll. We should know that," says TIGHAR executive director Ric Gillespie.
The collected details thus far are these: Human remains were found on the island three years after Earheart's plane disappeared that are believed to be a woman's. There is a piece of plane fuselage that the team's director believes washed up on shore many years ago which has rivet marks that match repair records of Earhart's Lockheed Electra. Finally, campsite artifacts recovered on the island date to the 1930's and were manufactured in America.
Some of those items were a women's compact and freckle cream jar manufactured in the U.S. around that decade.
"The fact that we have artifacts from the '30s from America on this island doesn't mean they were Earheart's, but if they're not Earheart's we've got to ask, 'Whose were they?'," says archaeologist Thomas King.
He is concerned with preserving whatever the team finds on the island or around its reef slope. He pointed specifically to any remnants of the plane, which was aluminum, submerged for this long would be particularly difficult to bring back for lab testing.
"I've seen aluminum come out of salt water after 40, 50 years and practically explode. It just has a very dramatic oxidation. So you really want to be very careful and anything we find is going to have to be either left down there or brought into a controlled environment very quickly," King says.
The island of Nikumaroro is uninhabited, very hot and full of wildlife, Gillespie says. The group is looking for sponsorship and funding, even reserving four spots for individuals who want to pay to experience the exploration first-hand.
© 2014 WTOP. All Rights Reserved.
by Taboola
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Re: Off topic: Amelia Earheart's plane wreckage may have been found.
Posted by:
Five Oh
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Date: March 12, 2014 08:59PM
Um...I wasn't aware that Nickumaroro was in Fairfax County. Wrong forum, OP. We HAVE an off-topic forum here...
Re: Off topic: Amelia Earheart's plane wreckage may have been found.
Posted by:
Amelia Earheart
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Date: March 12, 2014 09:06PM
I clearly labled this off-topic!!!!!!
Re: Off topic: Amelia Earheart's plane wreckage may have been found.
Posted by:
Priapus
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Date: March 12, 2014 09:30PM
Amelia Earheart Wrote:
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> I clearly labled this off-topic!!!!!!
Getting lost is sort of her "Raison d'être".
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> I clearly labled this off-topic!!!!!!
Getting lost is sort of her "Raison d'être".
Re: Off topic: Amelia Earheart's plane wreckage may have been found.
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I don't get it?
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Date: March 12, 2014 09:39PM
Priapus Wrote:
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> Amelia Earheart Wrote:
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> > I clearly labled this off-topic!!!!!!
>
>
> Getting lost is sort of her "Raison d'être".
I don't get it?
Speak English please?
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> Amelia Earheart Wrote:
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> > I clearly labled this off-topic!!!!!!
>
>
> Getting lost is sort of her "Raison d'être".
I don't get it?
Speak English please?
Re: Off topic: Amelia Earheart's plane wreckage may have been found.
Posted by:
Stabitha
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Date: March 12, 2014 09:55PM
Amelia Earheart Wrote:
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> I clearly labled this off-topic!!!!!!
If you clearly labeled it Off Topic, then you know its in the wrong place.
What a dumb ass!
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> I clearly labled this off-topic!!!!!!
If you clearly labeled it Off Topic, then you know its in the wrong place.
What a dumb ass!
Re: Off topic: Amelia Earheart's plane wreckage may have been found.
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Did u mean to say that?
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Date: March 12, 2014 10:44PM
Stabitha Wrote:
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> Amelia Earheart Wrote:
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> > I clearly labled this off-topic!!!!!!
>
> If you clearly labeled it Off Topic, then you know
> its in the wrong place.
>
> What a dumb ass!
Did u mean to say that?
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> Amelia Earheart Wrote:
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> -----
> > I clearly labled this off-topic!!!!!!
>
> If you clearly labeled it Off Topic, then you know
> its in the wrong place.
>
> What a dumb ass!
Did u mean to say that?
Re: Off topic: Amelia Earheart's plane wreckage may have been found.
Posted by:
Joes
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Date: March 12, 2014 11:01PM
I never go to off topic threads so I appreciated getting to read this here. Thanks, OP.
Re: Off topic: Amelia Earheart's plane wreckage may have been found.
Posted by:
Do you think Amalia is still ali
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Date: March 12, 2014 11:28PM
Joes Wrote:
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> I never go to off topic threads so I appreciated
> getting to read this here. Thanks, OP.
Do you think Amalia is still alive??
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> I never go to off topic threads so I appreciated
> getting to read this here. Thanks, OP.
Do you think Amalia is still alive??
Re: Off topic: Amelia Earheart's plane wreckage may have been found.
Posted by:
woww
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Date: March 13, 2014 07:15AM
Do you think Amalia is still ali Wrote:
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> Joes Wrote:
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> > I never go to off topic threads so I
> appreciated
> > getting to read this here. Thanks, OP.
>
>
> Do you think Amalia is still alive??
Lets see, if so she would be 117 years old, what do you think the chances are?
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> Joes Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I never go to off topic threads so I
> appreciated
> > getting to read this here. Thanks, OP.
>
>
> Do you think Amalia is still alive??
Lets see, if so she would be 117 years old, what do you think the chances are?
Re: Off topic: Amelia Earheart's plane wreckage may have been found.
Posted by:
Captain Janeway
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Date: March 13, 2014 07:30AM
woww Wrote:
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> Do you think Amalia is still ali Wrote:
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> > Joes Wrote:
> >
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> > -----
> > > I never go to off topic threads so I
> > appreciated
> > > getting to read this here. Thanks, OP.
> >
> >
> > Do you think Amalia is still alive??
>
>
> Lets see, if so she would be 117 years old, what
> do you think the chances are?
Actually she's still alive and well in the Delta Quadrant...
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart
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> > Joes Wrote:
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> > > I never go to off topic threads so I
> > appreciated
> > > getting to read this here. Thanks, OP.
> >
> >
> > Do you think Amalia is still alive??
>
>
> Lets see, if so she would be 117 years old, what
> do you think the chances are?
Actually she's still alive and well in the Delta Quadrant...
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart
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Re: Off topic: Amelia Earheart's plane wreckage may have been found.
Posted by:
Celebrate Losers
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Date: March 13, 2014 06:49PM
Her name is Amelia FAILheart....why do so many losers celebrate failure...that's all she did...FAIL to fly across the ocean...
Re: Off topic: Amelia Earheart's plane wreckage may have been found.
Posted by:
117% chance she still alive
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Date: March 13, 2014 07:08PM
woww Wrote:
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> Do you think Amalia is still ali Wrote:
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> > Joes Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > I never go to off topic threads so I
> > appreciated
> > > getting to read this here. Thanks, OP.
> >
> >
> > Do you think Amalia is still alive??
>
>
> Lets see, if so she would be 117 years old, what
> do you think the chances are?
117% chance she still alive
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> Do you think Amalia is still ali Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Joes Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > I never go to off topic threads so I
> > appreciated
> > > getting to read this here. Thanks, OP.
> >
> >
> > Do you think Amalia is still alive??
>
>
> Lets see, if so she would be 117 years old, what
> do you think the chances are?
117% chance she still alive
Re: Off topic: Amelia Earheart's plane wreckage may have been found.
Posted by:
ADT
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Date: March 13, 2014 07:13PM
u are 1 fukin cheeky kunt mate i swear i am goin 2 wreck u i swear on my mums life and i no u are scared lil bitch gettin your mates to send me messages saying dont meet up coz u r sum big bastard with muscles lol fukin sad mate really sad jus shows what a scared lil gay boy u are and whats all this crap ur mates sendin me about sum bodybuildin website that 1 of your faverite places to look at men u lil fukin gay boy fone me if u got da balls cheeky prick see if u can step up lil queer.
Re: Off topic: Amelia Earheart's plane wreckage may have been found.
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English please?
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Date: March 13, 2014 07:33PM
ADT Wrote:
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> u are 1 fukin cheeky kunt mate i swear i am goin 2
> wreck u i swear on my mums life and i no u are
> scared lil bitch gettin your mates to send me
> messages saying dont meet up coz u r sum big
> bastard with muscles lol fukin sad mate really sad
> jus shows what a scared lil gay boy u are and
> whats all this crap ur mates sendin me about sum
> bodybuildin website that 1 of your faverite places
> to look at men u lil fukin gay boy fone me if u
> got da balls cheeky prick see if u can step up lil
> queer.
English please?
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> u are 1 fukin cheeky kunt mate i swear i am goin 2
> wreck u i swear on my mums life and i no u are
> scared lil bitch gettin your mates to send me
> messages saying dont meet up coz u r sum big
> bastard with muscles lol fukin sad mate really sad
> jus shows what a scared lil gay boy u are and
> whats all this crap ur mates sendin me about sum
> bodybuildin website that 1 of your faverite places
> to look at men u lil fukin gay boy fone me if u
> got da balls cheeky prick see if u can step up lil
> queer.
English please?
Re: Off topic: Amelia Earheart's plane wreckage may have been found.
Posted by:
Hunh?
()
Date: March 13, 2014 08:21PM
Was Amelia Earnhardt Dale's wife?