OT: Did Amelia Earhart Survive the Crash?

[purplefaithful]

A newly discovered photograph suggests legendary aviator Amelia Earhart, who vanished 80 years ago on a round-the-world flight, survived a crash-landing in the Marshall Islands. 
The photo, found in a long-forgotten file in the National Archives, shows a woman who resembles Earhart and a man who appears to be her navigator, Fred Noonan, on a dock. The discovery is featured in a new History channel special, "Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence," that airs Sunday. 

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/amel...to-n779591

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History Channel with programming about history? Since when?? ;-)

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That pic they found is quite intriguing - Looks like her on the dock as well as her co-pilot - and looks like the big ship she is looking at is towing a plane. I think there is a good chance she did survive and was captured by the Japanese. Supposedly the US Gov. new this. There are specific documents missing (of course they would be missing - we need a good conspiracy story here!). 

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The Fred Noonan pic is supposedly especially telling as he had a pronounced widow's peak hairline and larger nose, just like this pic. Its hard to know what's real today. It isn't that far fetched that they survived a plane landing in the ocean after being blown off course, especially if it were near a beach on one of the Marshall islands. They were highly competent aviators. Our relationship with Japan was horrible during this time.

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I guess they'll reveal their evidence about her capture and death in a Japanese POW camp during the show.  If true, a very inglorious ending to say the least.

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@Ralphie said:
I guess they'll reveal their evidence about her capture and death in a Japanese POW camp during the show.  If true, a very inglorious ending to say the least.

You would think the Japanese would have records of this? Least they would if they were as thorough as the Germans were. 

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It's an interesting theory.  A lot of government paperwork from that era had a habit of disappearing.  If I've got free time during that time frame, I'll be watching to see what they've got for more proof.

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@AllBS said:
It's an interesting theory.  A lot of government paperwork from that era had a habit of disappearing.  If I've got free time during that time frame, I'll be watching to see what they've got for more proof.

I got my timer set to watch it too...

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History Channel?  ...Hopefully they will not slip in an Ancient Alien link.






Dammit, I'll probably have to watch to find out now.....