She could have been rescued if someone had paid attention to the radio equipment. They had obviously crashed landed and they could hear her signal, but she was not on the correct frequencies that she should have been. Radio operators on Wake and Midway Atolls tried to do a triangulation and they were close but were not able to actually fly where it looked like she was. If the radio equipment had been done right they would have heard her speaking and she could have described the local conditions and they also would have been able to correctly triangulate the exact location. One of the antennas on the plane had broken off, but was not fixed for the flight.
Earhart was the pilot yes and Noonan was an alcoholic problem navigator that had flown and released by PanAm. So if they were off course who's fault was it...
She has, is and always will be my Superhero! I’m 64 and her life and personality has alway been a shining light to me since I first read about her at about 6 or 7 years old..
She couldn't have ditched in the ocean, as it is well documented that she was sending nightly distress calls for five days after she disappeared. The "Lockheed Electra" discovered on the sea floor 100 miles from Howland island has been found most likely to be an old ship's anchor. 🙄
Earhart was not much of a pilot. Study her history and you will find several airplane accidents where she was the pilot. She and her "husband" George Putnam (not the L.A. news broadcaster) had a weird marriage. Her last accident occurred when she tried to go around the world in her Lockheed Electra 10E the first time, only to ground looped the aircraft on takeoff from Luke field in Hawaii starting the second leg. Her destination was to be Howland Island. She didn't make it the first time. The gear collapsed, and she banged up the airplane pretty good. She couldn't even take off, one of the easiest things in flying. The airplane was sent back to Burbank for extensive repairs before she flew it again on her second ill-fated round the world attempt, again never making Howland Island.
The new evidence shows she crash landed on an unhabited island where some of the things she used and like ,freckle cream jar, liquor bottle of the type she loved etc, a plane that is the shape of the one she was flying is in derp water off the coast of the same island
Deep Sea Vision, a Charleston, South Carolina-based company, believes it may have finally found Earhart's plane resting on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Ron W4BIN
amelia earhart did not strike me as too bright. she took off with a known alcoholic navigator and left valuable equipment behind that could have rescued her had she brought it along.
The most fascinating thing about Amelia Earhart's disappearance is that people have been searching for the plane ever since... Are Lockheed Electra's that valuable?
Amelia was so strong willed & unwilling to listen that many of the best Pan Am navigators refused to fly with her. So she settled upon a second rate navigator, Fred Noonan.
She was a terrible pilot, only pushed along by her husband into history. Bessie Coleman was a great pilot and the first person to receive a pilots licenses in the USA.
I am a fan of Amelia ; whatever she did of didn't do it was a very dangerous time to fly and she went for it.😍😍 with a patriarch always in the background.
Interesting that the bones looked at in the 1940's were determined to be male. Looking at the photographs and film of Earhart her bone structure sure looks male. Her values at marriage and how she handled herself makes me think we could be looking at a trans. ???
