Martin Antonenko
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On July 2, 1937 the American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, who together with her on-board mechanic Fred Noolan ...
... tries the first flight around the world by plane ...
... near Howland Island in the Pacific ...
... seen one last time.
Despite the immediately initiated and until then largest search campaign of all time (64 planes and eight warships were involved), Earhart, Noolan and the plane (a twin-engine "Lokheed 10" Electra ") ...
... remain disappeared without a trace!
Earhart had planned to find the 2.6 km² Howland Island using radio direction finding.
For this purpose the cutter "Itasca" of the US Coast Guard was waiting there, who responded to their radio messages as agreed ...:
Earhart, however, repeatedly reported not receiving any radio signals, which apparently caused her to wander the Pacific, increasingly in need.
Later one found on the bumpy runway on the island of Lae, where Earhard had started the morning of her disappearance ...
... the torn-off radio antenna of her Lokheed - so she could only transmit, but no longer receive!
At around 8:40 am local time, their navigator gave the "Itasca" the direction of flight, after which the contact finally broke off. The plane never arrived on Howland Island.
The most obvious assumption at the time was that the plane and its crew plunged into the Pacific after Earhart and Noolan ran out of fuel. It was suspected that Earhart was so busy stabilizing the aircraft that it could no longer send an emergency signal ("Mayday").
Today it doesn't seem so clear anymore!
There are a lot of the usual conspiracy theories - the most spectacular: Earhart and Noolan might have managed to make an emergency landing on Mili, a small island in the South Pacific, captured by Japanese troops, and later executed on Saipan.
This gamous picture is - allegedly! - to show her and Noolan in captivity on Mili ...:
However, this theory could certainly be refuted in 2017 when it was found in Japan that the alleged evidence photo above was taken two years before Earhart's disappearance - namely in 1935 - and therefore does not show the pilot and the mechanic.
However, the so-called "Nikumaroro thesis" appears much more likely ...:
There are indications that Earhart and her companion may have landed on Gardner Island (Nikumaroro since 1979), an uninhabited atoll in the Phoenix Islands, and survived there for a short time.
One week after Earhart's disappearance, evidence of a recently used bivouac was reported there by a search plane. Earphones that were recorded and recorded in the days after the disappearance may also have been from Earhart.
In 1940 a women's shoe was found on Gardner Island ...
... an empty sextant box (possibly from Noolan) and a bottle of the French liqueur brand "Bénédictine" that Earhart liked to drink.
An incomplete skeleton was also found, which was initially assigned to a male person. However, the bones were lost in the Fiji Islands, where they had been taken for examination.
In 1998, however, based on the analysis data from 1940, the skeleton was identified as probably belonging to a female person with the approximate age and weight of Earhart. In 2007 one found again the remains of a women's shoe from the 1930s of the "Cat’s Paw" brand (which Earhart also wore), a men's shoe heel ...
... a zipper (which could come from a flight jacket), the mirror of a powder box, several buttons, simple tools, acrylic glass and aluminum sheet ...
... that could also come from an airplane.
In 2010, the following objects were found during systematic excavations: old make-up ...
... glass bottles, conch shells and other legacies ...:
Bone fragments were also discovered ...
... exactly at the point where the remains of the skeleton that could no longer be found had been found in 1940. These fragments resembled bone parts of a vertebra and a finger.
A DNA comparison of the bones was not possible; it could not even be determined with certainty whether the bones were of human origin.
The riddle of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noolan remains unsolved ...
... tries the first flight around the world by plane ...
... near Howland Island in the Pacific ...
... seen one last time.
Despite the immediately initiated and until then largest search campaign of all time (64 planes and eight warships were involved), Earhart, Noolan and the plane (a twin-engine "Lokheed 10" Electra ") ...
... remain disappeared without a trace!
Earhart had planned to find the 2.6 km² Howland Island using radio direction finding.
For this purpose the cutter "Itasca" of the US Coast Guard was waiting there, who responded to their radio messages as agreed ...:
Earhart, however, repeatedly reported not receiving any radio signals, which apparently caused her to wander the Pacific, increasingly in need.
Later one found on the bumpy runway on the island of Lae, where Earhard had started the morning of her disappearance ...
... the torn-off radio antenna of her Lokheed - so she could only transmit, but no longer receive!
At around 8:40 am local time, their navigator gave the "Itasca" the direction of flight, after which the contact finally broke off. The plane never arrived on Howland Island.
The most obvious assumption at the time was that the plane and its crew plunged into the Pacific after Earhart and Noolan ran out of fuel. It was suspected that Earhart was so busy stabilizing the aircraft that it could no longer send an emergency signal ("Mayday").
Today it doesn't seem so clear anymore!
There are a lot of the usual conspiracy theories - the most spectacular: Earhart and Noolan might have managed to make an emergency landing on Mili, a small island in the South Pacific, captured by Japanese troops, and later executed on Saipan.
This gamous picture is - allegedly! - to show her and Noolan in captivity on Mili ...:
However, this theory could certainly be refuted in 2017 when it was found in Japan that the alleged evidence photo above was taken two years before Earhart's disappearance - namely in 1935 - and therefore does not show the pilot and the mechanic.
However, the so-called "Nikumaroro thesis" appears much more likely ...:
There are indications that Earhart and her companion may have landed on Gardner Island (Nikumaroro since 1979), an uninhabited atoll in the Phoenix Islands, and survived there for a short time.
One week after Earhart's disappearance, evidence of a recently used bivouac was reported there by a search plane. Earphones that were recorded and recorded in the days after the disappearance may also have been from Earhart.
In 1940 a women's shoe was found on Gardner Island ...
... an empty sextant box (possibly from Noolan) and a bottle of the French liqueur brand "Bénédictine" that Earhart liked to drink.
An incomplete skeleton was also found, which was initially assigned to a male person. However, the bones were lost in the Fiji Islands, where they had been taken for examination.
In 1998, however, based on the analysis data from 1940, the skeleton was identified as probably belonging to a female person with the approximate age and weight of Earhart. In 2007 one found again the remains of a women's shoe from the 1930s of the "Cat’s Paw" brand (which Earhart also wore), a men's shoe heel ...
... a zipper (which could come from a flight jacket), the mirror of a powder box, several buttons, simple tools, acrylic glass and aluminum sheet ...
... that could also come from an airplane.
In 2010, the following objects were found during systematic excavations: old make-up ...
... glass bottles, conch shells and other legacies ...:
Bone fragments were also discovered ...
... exactly at the point where the remains of the skeleton that could no longer be found had been found in 1940. These fragments resembled bone parts of a vertebra and a finger.
A DNA comparison of the bones was not possible; it could not even be determined with certainty whether the bones were of human origin.
The riddle of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noolan remains unsolved ...
