so Amelia was dead? at the end?

I think it is certainly beyond question that Amelia is definitively dead.

Its already been 70+ years !! Anybody who was born during the year she vanished could have died naturally by now, needless to say she was 40 when she disappeared !!


I doubt that there ever will be any conclusive evidence to surface that will tell the true story behind her disappearance.


It will remain as one of the great mysteries of the 20th century.

Come on, use some common sense here. That is only death in paper.

If somehow she turned up alive, every bit of that bull will get flushed down the drain.


I am just doing a very safe and logical assumption here. Even if she did survive her disappearance way back then, the possibilities of her still being alive today is from slim to none ...

Oh yeah? Really?

So how did you know?



What is it that ya got to back this up?

There are several theories on her disappearance. The most likely being that Amelia and Fred Noonan crashed into the Pacific, however I like to believe the Gardner Island hypothesis. Here's what Wikipedia says about that:


Gardner Island hypothesis
Immediately after Earhart and Noonan's disappearance, the United States Navy, Paul Mantz and Earhart's mother (who convinced G.P. Putnam to undertake a search in the Gardner Group) all expressed belief the flight had ended in the Phoenix Islands (now part of Kiribati), some 350 miles (560 km) southeast of Howland Island.
In July 2007, an editor at Avionews in Rome called the Gardner Island hypothesis the "most confirmed" explanation of Earhart's disappearance. The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) has suggested Earhart and Noonan may have flown without further radio transmissions for two-and-a-half hours along the line of position Earhart noted in her last transmission received at Howland, arrived at then-uninhabited Gardner Island (now Nikumaroro) in the Phoenix group, landed on an extensive reef flat near the wreck of a large freighter and ultimately perished.
TIGHAR's research has produced a range of documented archaeological and anecdotal evidence supporting this hypothesis. For example, in 1940, Gerald Gallagher, a British colonial officer and licensed pilot, radioed his superiors to inform them that he had found a "skeleton... possibly that of a woman", along with an old-fashioned sextant box, under a tree on the island's southeast corner. He was ordered to send the remains to Fiji, where in 1941, British colonial authorities took detailed measurements of the bones and concluded they were from a stocky male. However, in 1998 an analysis of the measurement data by forensic anthropologists indicated the skeleton had belonged to a "tall white female of northern European ancestry." The bones themselves were misplaced in Fiji long ago.
Artifacts discovered by TIGHAR on Nikumaroro have included improvised tools, an aluminum panel (possibly from an Electra), an oddly cut piece of clear Plexiglas which is the exact thickness and curvature of an Electra window and a size 9 Cat's Paw heel dating from the 1930s which resembles Earhart's footwear in world flight photos. The evidence remains circumstantial, but Earhart's surviving stepson, George Putnam Jr., has expressed enthusiasm for TIGHAR's research. A 15-member TIGHAR expedition visited Nikumaroro from July 21 to August 2, 2007, searching for unambiguously identifiable aircraft artifacts and DNA. The group included engineers, environmentalists, a land developer, archaeologists, a sailboat designer, a team doctor and a videographer. They were reported to have found additional artifacts of as yet uncertain origin on the weather-ravaged atoll, including bronze bearings which may have belonged to Earhart's aircraft and a zipper pull which might have come from her flight suit.

I think they made it into the Marshall Islands chain and were captured by the Japanese. There are eyewitness reports from natives that tell of a white man and woman who were captured and imprisoned by the Japanese. The man was eventually beheaded for being a spy and the woman died of disease while in captivity.

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