Earhart's plane found

[cradleandshoot]

Did they find Amelia Earhart's plane?? Who cares?? No real mystery. Amelia and her navigator fouled up while navigating. Too bad Amelia didn't have a GPS app on her smart phone.

[njbill]

How do you know she didn’t have GPS? Did they find her smart phone, too?

[Seacoaster(1)]

How do you know she didn’t have GPS? Did they find her smart phone, too?

Plane crash? Hope she's OK.

[njbill]

I heard she was texting on her smart phone while flying. A bad thing, even in the 1930s.

[Seacoaster(1)]

I heard she was texting on her smart phone while flying. A bad thing, even in the 1930s.

You'd think people would learn?

[cradleandshoot]

I heard she was texting on her smart phone while flying. A bad thing, even in the 1930s.

Shhhhhhhh, that was suppose to be highly classified information. The truth is that their GPS failed them.

[Kismet]

I heard she was texting on her smart phone while flying. A bad thing, even in the 1930s.

Shhhhhhhh, that was suppose to be highly classified information. The truth is that their GPS failed them.

It's very likely that the version of GPS they were using - celestial navigation by her navigator Noonan had a calculation error which caused them to miss Howland Island by a small distance - magnified by the location of the island in a huge Pacific Ocean. They ran out of gas trying to find the island

[njbill]

That alleged image of the plane they posted online looks to me like Bigfoot got a little too close to the campfire.

[cradleandshoot]

That alleged image of the plane they posted online looks to me like Bigfoot got a little too close to the campfire.

All ya gotta do is dive down 16000 feet and have a look see. They know where the image came from. I would be surprised after 90 years there would be anything left at that depth. This airplane isn't the Titanic.

[Kismet]

That alleged image of the plane they posted online looks to me like Bigfoot got a little too close to the campfire.

All ya gotta do is dive down 16000 feet and have a look see. They know where the image came from. I would be surprised after 90 years there would be anything left at that depth. This airplane isn't the Titanic.

same water chemistry at that depth - if it is the plane it should be decently preserved - its mostly aluminum not steel
Not so sure you can infer much from just sonar imagery - the have to send an ROV with a camera down there to identify what th eobject really is

[cradleandshoot]

That alleged image of the plane they posted online looks to me like Bigfoot got a little too close to the campfire.

All ya gotta do is dive down 16000 feet and have a look see. They know where the image came from. I would be surprised after 90 years there would be anything left at that depth. This airplane isn't the Titanic.

same water chemistry at that depth - if it is the plane it should be decently preserved - its mostly aluminum not steel
Not so sure you can infer much from just sonar imagery - the have to send an ROV with a camera down there to identify what th eobject really is

I don't believe Earhart's plane had the structural integrity of say the Titanic not to mention anywhere near the same mass. I would think the phenomenal pressure at 16000 feet would have flattened the plane out.

No problemo for someone wanting to spend their money to go down and have a look see.

[Kismet]

That alleged image of the plane they posted online looks to me like Bigfoot got a little too close to the campfire.

All ya gotta do is dive down 16000 feet and have a look see. They know where the image came from. I would be surprised after 90 years there would be anything left at that depth. This airplane isn't the Titanic.

same water chemistry at that depth - if it is the plane it should be decently preserved - its mostly aluminum not steel
Not so sure you can infer much from just sonar imagery - the have to send an ROV with a camera down there to identify what th eobject really is

I don't believe Earhart's plane had the structural integrity of say the Titanic not to mention anywhere near the same mass. I would think the phenomenal pressure at 16000 feet would have flattened the plane out.

No problemo for someone wanting to spend their money to go down and have a look see.

Actually, we now know that the Titanic's structural integrity was not so great at the time of its sinking. If Earhart glided the plane to a water landing and then it sank there is a possibility it could still be largely intact even at that depth.

That said, the sonar image is NOT proof what the object is - going to need a ROV and a camera for that. I doubt they will have any problem raising $$$$$$ to support a return - He can always call Bob Ballard who is now on the faculty at URI and also with the Institute For Exploration in Mystic CT.