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It's confusing to me why distress calls from a plane that was legitimately 'missing' would have been ignored. It's always been an interesting mystery and perhaps it will finally be solved soon.
I looked at a map and photos of the island. I've spent some time in the South Pacific and water would have been the big challenge but there was plenty of food available for anyone with rudimentary survival skills. I think they must have been seriously injured when they landed.
It's also possible they survived for quite a while. Any structures they built would have been destroyed by storms but they may find other remnants. Their distress calls would only last as long as their batteries.
We just had a thread on this about 2 weeks ago. I'm ok with the physical evidence they found. I didn't hear about ignored distress signals, though. I thought their communications equipment broke down, so distress signals didn't get through.
Oh, I see! Very interesting article! Makes a lot of sense! Thanks for posting!
It's confusing to me why distress calls from a plane that was legitimately 'missing' would have been ignored. It's always been an interesting mystery and perhaps it will finally be solved soon.
I looked at a map and photos of the island. I've spent some time in the South Pacific and water would have been the big challenge but there was plenty of food available for anyone with rudimentary survival skills. I think they must have been seriously injured when they landed.
It's also possible they survived for quite a while. Any structures they built would have been destroyed by storms but they may find other remnants. Their distress calls would only last as long as their batteries.
Actually the island they think they landed on had thousands of huge land crabs that would even climb trees. That is what happened to them if they lived through the landing on the reef and I think they did.
There was an article all about it in today's New York Times. It said she knew she was taking a risk by using navigating equipment that was faulty or sub-par, she knew her navigator wasn't top-notch. But sometimes a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do, was the gist of why she made the trip.
I thought I read somewhere that the remains of a male and female were found on that island, but just sort of dismissed at the time. Anyway, it seems pretty obvious that they crash landed and probably died of exposure and/or starvation. The exotic theories about them being capture by the Japanese or whatever just never really held up.
I really don't think Amelia and Fred ended up on Nikumaroro, though I haven't had an unhealthy obsession with the subject like some TIGHAR people do.
And considering the island was previously inhabited, manned by the military in WW2 AND the site of a faily large coastal shipwreck, it would be impossible to find evidence of Earhart even IF they ended up there.
My guess is that someday someone will stumble across the Electra on the bottom of the ocean, probably while looking for something else.
I DO have a fantasy of someday going to the island though, just because it's a seriously cool uninhabited island just as far away from the rest of the world as is humanly possible without going to outer space. I'd love to spend a few weeks playing castaway there.
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