The Search for Amelia Earhart

[Page Turner]

British officials discovered a partial human skeleton in 1940 and wondered whether it might belong to the famed aviator. So officials shipped the 13 bones to a medical school in Fiji, where they were examined by D.W. Hoodless, a physician.

Hoodless took measurements and concluded that the bones were likely those of a short, stocky European man — not Earhart's.

The bones were then discarded.

But TIGHAR investigators think Hoodless was wrong.

In 1998, the group took the measurements from Hoodless and ran them through a more robust anthropological database. The bones, they determined, could have belonged to a taller-than-average woman of European descent.

Earhart was 5-feet-7, or, by some accounts, 5-feet-8 — several inches taller than average.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/09/15/amelia-earhart-didnt-die-in-a-plane-crash-this-search-group-says-here-is-its-theory/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_1_na&utm_term=.9bad96e7d2a4

[Caretaker]

Watched/listened to most of it. Not very convincing.

He dismisses 'anecdotal' evidence at the start and then accepts it when it suits his theory. Those radio hams allegedly hearing messages on harmonics from her downed aircraft, not very convincing unless you want them to be.

[Page Turner]

...too bad about the bones.

[Frank Calico Cat]

Loved it Page, thank you. 

What do you think? Definitely better than most Amelia theories I've seen. If true, absolutely heartbreaking. 

What's the latest? I think this is it. 

[Page Turner]

...the whole thing is sad, but this is particularly sad if true.  Who knew there was a Republic of Kiribati ?

 

Will the Search for Amelia Earhart Ever End?     in Smithsonian magazine


 

[Road Runner]

I think we can call off the search.  She is probably dead by now.   

[Caretaker]

She crashed in the sea and she and her navigator went down with their plane.

All the evidence points to that and there's no credible evidence to support any of the alternative theories.