What happened after it lost contact with Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan in the plane “Electra” 2. July 1937, has long been one of the flyhistoriens great mysteries.
The two disappeared in the Pacific ocean, at Hawaii, under the Earharts attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world. It was assumed that the aircraft with the world-renowned folkehelten had crashed in the ocean, since neither she or Noonan has ever been found.
– sluttkapittel people do not know about
Amelia Earhart had known the underarms which was longer than in gjennomsnittskvinnen with european ethnicity in the 30′s. Measurements of the skeleton shows that the forearms are equal.
Photo: Albert Bresnik / Afp
But flyentusiastorganisasjonen The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) has for many years worked to prove that Earhart actually had to make an emergency landing on a deserted island, and that she was stranded there for a long time before she died.
Now reveals the new discoveries in connection with a shell that was found on the island of Nikumaroro by the uk government in 1940, writes CNN
All believe that Earhart died in flystyrten the 2. July 1937. But that is a whole sluttkapittel in her life that people do not know about. She spent days, maybe months in a heroic struggle to survive stranded on a deserted island, ” says director of TIGHAR, Ric Gillespie to CNN.
they have tried to prove since 1998. It was also when the group got hold of the documentation from the discovery that the british government in 1940, concluded with had no connection to Earhart. They thought the skeleton had belonged to a man.
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the People shelves Amelia Earhart in Northern Ireland in 1932, after she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic in a soloflyvning.
Photo: AP
Compared the forearms
But TIGHAR sent the documents, which among other things contained the measurements of the skeleton, to rettsantropologene Karen Burns and Richard Jantz. They proved that the bones most likely belonged to a woman on the Amelia Earharts height and with the same ethnicity.
It was in 1998. But for a couple of weeks ago happened was Jantz, a new and unexpected breakthrough.
the Professor as to the daily work at the university of Tennessee discovered by chance a note from the british doctor who undertook the surveys in the 1940s, where it came out that the skeleton has forearms that are unusually large for a european woman.
Together with a kriminaltekniker he studied as pictures of Earhart where the arms of her is visible, and they came to the that the forearms were identical with the measurements that the doctor had written in the note.
the distress signal sent after 2. July
Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappeared together.
Photo: AP
In august revealed TIGHAR is that Earhart sent out over 100 distress signals between the 2. and 6. July 1937, which according to the group exclude that the plane her plunged.
the Aircraft’s radio would not have worked if the aircraft’s engine was not on.
According to Gillespie shows the documents that the airline received a radio broadcast with the cries for help from utsenderen in 1937.
– People thought she was alive. It was only when the plane was sent over the islands where the signals came from, and not as any of the planes that shifted the focus towards the sea, he says.
But TIGHAR believe that no one saw anything fly on one of these islands in the Pacific ocean because Earharts plane had been dragged out of the sea and of the waves before the ruthless covenant search party had arrived.
But she lived and died on the island a while, ” says Gillespie.
Have found assets
The flyhistoriske group TIGHAR think has made several discoveries on Nikumaroro that they believe has a connection to Earhart. This metallbiten was found in 1991, and the group believes it can stem from Earharts plane.
Photo by: TIGHAR / Reuters
during the nearly 80 years that have passed since the disappearance have appeared several items that may indicate that TIGHAR has the right.
In 1940, three years after the disappearance, was found a pocket knife of the type Earhart was known to use. In addition, it was found parts of a man and a kvinnesko, a box of makeup and a glass of the same size as fregnekremen Earhart used.
These findings were later the mess away from the archive, but it has appeared more evidence that strengthens the theory. On the island there are found fragments of glass that are ground to be able to cut with the large amounts of fuglebein, shells, or fish, and stools the case, it is that originates from a human being.
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Nikumaroro is located southwest of Hawaii and is a part of Phoenixøyene that belongs to the state of Kiribati.
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