Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Amelia Found?

 
See here for essential background: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2025/05/amelia-earhart-plane-update.html.
Following the disappointment in discovering that the aeroplane shape on the seabed was just a pile of rocks, the search has continued unabated. Many hope soon to solve the mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart. A new clue has been found in a satellite photo. It shows another object lying on the seabed that might be the modified Lockheed Electra flown by Amelia and Fred Noonan. This time it is far shallower and in much more accessible waters. It is lying in the surf of an island called Nikumaroro, formerly Gilbert Island. This is a very remote and uninhabited atoll just a few miles across, about four hundred miles south of Howland. This island was searched from the air by the coastguard in the initial quest to locate Amelia, but nobody could be seen. In October a ship was sent there, but found nothing. Many human remains and artefacts have been excavated there over the years because the island has had a population at various periods since the early 19th century; but attempts to colonize the island were abandoned due to a lack of fresh water and farmland. There are ruins of their buildings there. Another wreck, that of the ship SS Norwich City, can clearly be seen to this day, half buried in the sand. It sank there in 1929. If the two aviators crash-landed on Nikumaroro then they did not survive long. Their bodies may well have been scavenged by the island's vast population of coconut crabs. Source: https://www.ladbible.com/community/amelia-earhart-disappearance-explained-theories-new-evidence-276408-20250707. The object in the photo does not look to me particularly like an aircraft; but then the same could be said for Norwich City. After time has passed and the tides have half buried it, what can we expect? Also, have DNA tests been done on the bones that were found? I would support a new expedition to return to the island and investigate this anomaly. Hopefully, after more than eighty-eight years, we can finally know the fate of this brave aviator.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2024/05/mh370-portal.html.

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