Surf's Up
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Bill Bright

2y↑1

I like the look and engines of those era aircraft. The Vega and the Electra about as classic as they come.
She was on Giddian Gardner’s isle and perished there along with Fred. By time line the circumstances missed finding them. The aircraft Largely intact by survivable landing on shoals very near the run aground ship Norwich City.
Essentially a self contained floatation device with all its special fuselage fuel cells now empty the craft was floated many miles out to sea. The deceptively calm surf and tide at times can become raging seas that removes any things even such as landing struts in reef.
The isle is the tip of a very steep mountain and the sea plummets to great depth very abruptly.
The window patch installed at Miami for a hard landing transparent port damage and found on the island there by rivet pattern and dimensions is far beyond coincidence.
She was there and her bones were misidentified. Fred my have been washed to sea after perishing.
The radio transmissions and the references to what ( garbled ) sounded like New York City via atmospheric radio skip waves far exact to be coincidental or to be contrived.
She observed the name still visible on ship wreckage and at first could not believe how fortunate of a second chance they were given. But simply no one took serious they could be so far southerly of Howland Island. Preconceived notion’s of overflight of that spot forgetting Fred’s expertise in search lines with remaining fuel.

Richard Pruett

5y↑11

Thanks for helping to debunk the Nikumaroro and Crashed and Sank hypotheses. Every door closed helps direct us to the remaining possibilities.

For the sake of accuracy, I would note that it wasn't a British survey group that found the skeleton on Gardner Island in 1940, but a Gilbertese team. They then advised the British supervisor, Gerard Gallagher, of their finding six months later. Also, it wasn't the CIA that did the photo enhancement of the Bevington photo but the Intelligence and Research Bureau of the State Department.

Patrick Rieger

4y↑9

With all of the other physical evidence that points to an american woman of the 30s being there before the British arrived to colonize, on an island that had not had an inhabitant since 1892, I am convinced Gardner is where she wound up. With what the sea has done to the Norwich City, hurling parts of the hull around, I think the sea ripped the Electra to bits, with those bits sinking further down that the search looked.

THG Driver

Matt Hooper The radio did fail en route. A fuse blew B 4 they got to New Guinea but they were headed to a large land mass not a speck of dirt/rock/coral in the largest ocean on our planet. It was said that the radio was repaired but nothing was said as to what that was or maybe just the fuse was replaced. It's very telling how poorly this stunt was planed/executed. Seems to me after leaving New Guinea and in the air she should have tried to contact the airport. How do you read me back there in New Guinea??? Should have been routine procedure. She would have know right there 5 miles out that she could not receive radio signals/voice. You know what? I think she would have flew on anyway. She seemed too sure of herself and trusted to luck.........................once too often in this case.😞😞😞 So sad.

THG Driver

Matt Hooper I feel the Itasca let her down. They had to realize, early on, when trying to reach her on the radio that they could hear her but she never heard them. The Itasca was making black smoke. I think at that point a large bond fire with oil to make lots of black smoke should have been set on the island. Shooting up some flairs should have been a routine thing to do too but they did not do that either. 😝😜😜

Patrick Rieger

@Uneducated November 1929, in a storm.

Uneducated

2y↑2

you know the norwich crashed in 1928 and 11 people died on gardner before they were rescued?

THG Driver

@Patrick Rieger Supposedly, Fred knew this area like the back of his hand. I have no idea what words she would or should have said. How about--"Fred has me flying south to another Island he knows is there". I'm only guessing at "what she "should" have said but NEVER DID" not "one" word. I'm a staunch believer that they ran out of fuel looking for Howland Island, crashed north of Howland into the ocean, killed on impact or drowned shorty after. It's not complicated. Ballard will find that plane or at least the engines north of Howland. Experts at Lockheed and Prat and Whitney have shown that when she contacted the Itasca so loud the radio operator ran on deck to see the plane, that plane was out of gas flying on fumes. She had 5 to 10 minutes of air time left. That was approx. 9: AM. There is no way she then flew 350 miles south to Gardner. She spent that time looking for her destination, Howland Island. That's why Ric G can't prove she was ever there after 33 years of searching. She was never there unless she swam there and hauled the radio on her back to make distress calls. OK, that's bad sarcasm for Ric G, sorry. I have been researching (started in the 50's) this long B 4 computers made it EZ. No Japanese BS, No Nikumaroro/Gardner BS, No land crab BS, No castaway BS. It's not complicated at all. BTW, lets talk about the "Distress calls"--Let's pretend AE is flying south to Gardner Island. During that "whole time" she never says a word on the radio to the Itasca or anyone else LISTENING. Now she see's Gardner, she still never says a word to the Itasca or anybody LISTENING. Not "we see an Island, I'm going to try a landing on the beach, nothing, she said NOTHING! But the next day and for 3 days she is talking for hours to whoever all over the world???!. No, this is during the depression, there are a lot of low life's out there jealous that the rich can buy expensive planes and waste their money on stunts like this while their family is starving. That's who made the hoax calls or maybe just teenager's fooling around, No TV, to speak of, just radio. I think that girl in Florida did hear something but it was an elaborate hoax.

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Cory Hoggatt

2y↑4

If you know the story of how she ended up landing in a farmers field after her first transatlantic flight, it becomes clear that the same thing happened on her last flight. Her navigator directed an offset course to the south of Howland, her “instinct” told her to turn right instead of left when they reached the 157/337 line, and they found Gardner Island instead of Howland. She wrecked landing on the reef, and used the remaining power in the battery to broadcast distress signals until it ran dry. The Pan Am stations whose whole reason for existence was radio direction location triangulated signals on her two reserved frequencies to Gardner island. The sole Navy search plane that went to Gardner island reported signs of recent habitation, unaware that no one had been on the island for 50 years.

Keep in mind that her aircraft was not made of sturdy steel like the ships that have been found, but lightly built aluminum that was probably torn to pieces by waves and coral reef. There is likely nothing larger than the engines left of it.

All the evidence points quite conclusively to a Gardner Island landing.

THG Driver

Hi Cory, Lockheed and Pratt & Whitney Among a "host" of other "experts" all say with the unexpected head winds of 25 MPH AE had to fight (she had planed on only 12 MPH) plus she said she had to climb above a storm she ran into early in the flight. I am not saying it "EXPERTS ARE". She was flying on fumes by the time of her last call to the Itasca at Howland Island. The Radio operator ran on deck as he expected to see the plane overhead. He says she had to be within 20 to 50 miles of Howland. After that last broadcast that puts her at Howland on fumes where did she get the fuel to fly 350 south for another 2 1/2 hours or more even if 50 miles south of Howland??? She even told the Itasca "WE ARE LOW ON FUEL"! Another thing, Lets pretend she has fuel for 2 1/2 hour flight 350 miles south. She never says one more word to her only lifeline out there, the Itasca. Not one word over 2 1/2 hours. She doesn't even say "we are at another Island and I am going to try a landing"??! ABSOLUTLY NOTHING. But you have her Broadcasting for hours for 3 days after you have her crash land. BTW, she had no nav. aboard when she flew the Atlantic in that single engine plane in 1932 if that's what you are saying. She was "ALONE" "SOLO". She was headed to Paris Just as Lindbergh had done. She not only missed Paris, she missed the whole country of France and England too. She wound up in Ireland. So she eared North on that flight not south.They tried to say she was headed to England and wound up in Ireland to save embarrassment. If you do your research, the flight was planed just Like C L did in 1927, ever on the same day of the week. It was her husband's idea. IMHO the Lockheed Electra is on the ocean floor within 50 miles of Howland Island. Problem is we don't know whether it's East, West, North or South of the island because she was lost and may have flown past it while looing for it.

Professor_Tickles 92

4y↑6

I hope Ballard goes on the Rogan podcast.

eddyaudio

1y↑1

The Tragedy is that Amelia and Fred didn’t know Morse Code or CW and poor Knowledge of there radio equipment that is why they were lost.

T Wright

They could have been given the wrong true heading based on a simple math error. I have calculated the compass heading at Howland Island 78 degree true heading is a 68.5 degree compass heading. 9.49 degree east magnetic declination. A 67 degree compass heading is less than 2 degrees north of Howland Island which is a 76.5 degree true heading.

T Wright

@LostAmericanHistory the reality is nobody really cares, do you think the likes of Dr Ballard watches youtube videos or reads the comments. We have a better chance of winning the lottery.

T Wright

@LostAmericanHistory 157-337 geographic (true) is unlikely! Think about how radar works, it takes the distance from an object and latitude and plots it on a screen. In this case let's say Lae is the object with radar, Howland is 2556 miles distance and 49 minutes north latitude putting a dot on the screen representing Howland. Earnhart and Noonan believe they flew 2556 miles (distance) and if Noonan used celestial navigation to find their latitude this would put a dot on the radar screen representing their location correct? So if they have their dot and they have a dot for Howland why fly on 157-337, why not fly direct? Noonan could also calculate their distance between the two dots.

It may not be exactly how radar works but you get the idea. If you have the distance traveled (arc radius) and you find your latitude, you end up with an approximate location. You don't need two "straight" lines.

T Wright

@LostAmericanHistory assuming that you have read some of the comments and understand the math. A 76.54 degree true course (67 degree magnetic near Howland) would have put the about 80 miles north of Howland and about 18 mile west of true north when Amelia reported "we must be on you but can not see you " (0745).

LostAmericanHistory

@T Wright its ok i appreciate the reply! That is amazing. So where would have the error taken them ?

T Wright

@Rich Lund another question, TIGHAR shows on their illustrations the 78 degree true course but they never mention the magnetic equivalent (68.5 degree) near Howland why? Raises too many questions? TIGHAR has done the same thing when searching for "the white bird". They found 1 piece of metal and witness statements and can't prove anything in that mystery. Someone else found the bones and TIGHAR ran with it.

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Albert Patterson

The dialog in the "comments" section is more interesting than the original interview.

Twilight Luminance

Amelia M. Earhart, determined heroic aviator of her time, inspires all Americans. Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan were apprehended tragically in July 1937 on Mili Atoll, Marshall Islands, by Imperial Japan for photographing Japanese military assets. As prisoners, they endured brutal agony, only to expire on Saipan, never to return home again. The Japan Times reported on Nov. 13, 1970 Mrs. Michiko Sugita’s declaration, as the 11 year-old daughter of civilian Saipanese chief of police in 1937, asserted Amelia Earhart had expired on Saipan during WWII. While Earhart’s last flight from Lae, New Guinea to Howland Is. was only 2500 miles, the Lockheed Electra 10-E “ flying laboratory”, as Amelia labeled it, having auxiliary tanks fueled with 1100 gallons, had an extended range of 4000 miles. A Lockheed engineer (Robert T. Elliot) interviewed declared modifying Electra’s fuselage, allowing installation of two (Fairchild) reconnaissance cameras. A Navy microfilm clerk (Caroll F. Harris) assigned to Earhart’s files, recalled complete details of photographs of installation/operation of surveillance cameras to the Electra’s hull. ONI discovered Earhart’s captivity through code breaking of Japanese radio intercepts, and a 1937 Jaluit Atoll intelligence photo. Marshall Islands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs in July 2017 acknowledged 1937 ONI Jaluit Island dock photo, exhibiting valid evidence of Earhart, Noonan and the Electra, was built by Japanese forces in 1936. Pres. Roosevelt and the US, unprepared for an objectionable war with Japan in 1937, did not respond. ONI, Adm. Nimitz, USMC Gens. Erskine, Vandegrift, and Watson, the 2nd Marine Division commander that invaded Saipan in 1944, established and substantiated Earhart and Noonan perished on Saipan for aerial reconnaissance. These famous decorated flag officers arrived at this conclusion through evidence, and interviews (Saipan’s Chamorro guards employed by the Kenpeitai-Japan’s military police) conducted by military intelligence without fanfare, with no ax to grind, with no ulterior motives. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz’s 1965 sincere words to renown San Francisco’s KCBS investigator, and Amelia Earhart researcher Fred A. Goerner, “Now that you’re going to Washington, Fred, I want to tell you Earhart and her navigator went down in the Marshalls and were picked up by Japanese.” Both were taken to Japanese regional headquarters, and eventually to Saipan’s westside Garapan prison. Hundreds of native witnesses from Mili, Jaluit (Bilimon Amaron: F. Noonan’s head wound/leg infection medic), Kwajalein Atolls, and Saipan (Josephine B. Akiyama: “I didn't know this was a woman, I thought it was a man”) placed her in Micronesia, west of Howland Island. Scores of US military witnesses (Thomas Devine) gazed Amelia’s Electra on Saipan’s Aslito Airfield’s hanger. Devine attested to initials “FN” and “AE” carved on Amelia’s Garapan prison cell wall, as well as plate on cell door, reading “July 29, 1937.” (Julious E. Nabers) viewed plane destroyed on Aslito to hide evidence. (Robert Wallack) discovered Earhart’s briefcase and personal effects in blown safe on Saipan. In 1964, Everett Henson Jr. (Sacramento,Ca.), and Bill G. Burks (Dallas,Tx.), came forward as 2 former U.S. Marines who recovered skeletal remains of Earhart and Noonan in unmarked graves [identifying Marine Capt. Tracy Griswold (Erie, Pa.) as supervisor] near a small graveyard on Saipan in July of 1944, depositing remains in metal canisters for transport back home. Saipanese witnesses claim Earhart succumbed from dysentery, while Noonan’s demise arrived via execution. US govt. built an airstrip (Howland Is.), docked a Coast Guard ship to guide Amelia, created worldwide flight plan logistics, assigned a 17-day Navy Task Force search, for a clandestine mission using celebrity status as cover, not daredevil aviation. After the 1937 disappearance, Navy Task Force planes rigorously combed Nikumaroro’s (then Gardner Island) entire expanse and found island unoccupied. Frederick J. Hooven (1982) retracted his original Gardner Island (Nikumaroro) crash theory, after being shown Gilbertese Island settlers had dwelled there from 1938 to 1963, without any traces of ill-fated crew. In 1990, Earhart investigator Fred Goerner contacted TIGHAR’s Ric Gillespie reprimanding their invalid adopted Nikumaroro theory. In October 1937 English anthropologist Henry Maude, claiming TIGHAR’S claim as absurd, explored Nikumaroro and saw no evidence of human habitation only 100 days after their loss. In 1987, the Republic of the Marshall Islands issued a set of 4 commemorative stamps and envelope covers in honor of the 50th anniversary of Amelia’s WITNESSED landing by Marshallese natives on Mili Atoll on July 2, 1937. Follow former US military’s, Saipanese and Marshallese truthful corroborated evidence, not CIA/NSA funded scientist, or mouthpiece influencing narratives. Remembering perilous war era turmoil, undercover operatives from 1937 were an expendable past, as the govt.’s pivotal focus was vanquishing Imperial Japan. Lastly, as victors of war and subsequently writers of history, the U.S. chose American egocentrism, erasing the humiliation of islander/military Earhart witnessing and bygone errors. Amelia’s Earhart’s 1937-1944 last days captive are classified and censored by Washington for U.S. prewar secrecy, FDR’s WWII political reputation, and American-Japanese post-war diplomacy.😀

ou8124me also

3y↑2

Out of all the speculation on where the best chances are of finding anything IMO is probably Gardner.
Just makes the most sense and safest choice for her at the time.

S U

I feel to show respect to him it's "Robert Ballard" unless he's your long time buddy.

Mat McLachlan's Living History

He told me to call him Bob - it’s not my place to correct him on his own name!

Margie Pargie

I don't think she had enough gas to get to Gardner Island.

david watson

One day the Japanese will confess.

Neat Stuff

3y↑3

I can tell you exactly what happened to A&E.. She crashed in Hawaii on the 1st I should say 2nd leg of her westbound Flight around the world from Honolulu to Howl and island. There and then she lost her expert pilot Paul franks and her expert radio man Harry Manning. left with the alcoholic noonan. Got lost landed on Gardner island and crashed landed because Newnan was badly injured. But once again failed to reach Howland island. Is that a coincidence. Absolutely not. Her overseas radio work was atrocious.. There is not a single time you talk to someone over water where you do not include your exact fuel on board in pounds. She calls it low on fuel. That is the worst radio language anyone could make. If she had 200 gallons then fob would be called 1.6 meaning 1600 pounds. I have made 10000 reports over water. Remember Pan Am had been making it around the world for a year and a 1/2 by this time with no incidents other than noonan and drinking. they fired him.kb

THG Driver

@Ph MWU You never answered my logical questions, why? Because you can't. You just make a silly statement and run away. You just will never get it. I'll put it this way-------Under a street light Ph MWU was looking in the grass, Tom came along and asked Ph MWU what was he doing? Ph MWU said he was looking for his keys, Tom asked, about where I'll help you look? Ph MWU said he lost his keys two streets up to the north but there was no street light up there to see with.
Moral of Story?
Just because you can shine a light on an Island does not mean you are looking in the right place. There is no light where Amelia and Fred actually are and went down in the ocean, that's why you don't want to look there

Ph MWU

@THG Driver A goog landing is one You can walk away from... better on land than in the Ocean.

THG Driver

@Ph MWU Baker and Gardner ( Nikumaroro) did not, I repeat, did not have a runway to land on. Why would Noonan have a plan to head to anyplace that had no place to land an aircraft???!!? What would his plan be , land in the trees?? Howland had the only airstrip. Period! The plane crashed into the ocean off Howland Island when they ran out of gas. She said, so loud a radio operator on the Itasca ran on deck thinking she was overhead, "We must be on you but cannot see you, we are "LOW ON GAS"!!! Then she flew 350 miles south on what?? Noonan pissed in the tank??

Ph MWU

@THG Driver In fact during every flight preparation a navigator has an "alternate" destination as backup. Both Baker island and Nikumaroro were known on the map !
Unfortunately the edges of Nikumaroro reef have huge & very steep walls leading to the Abyss...

THG Driver

So according to you Neat, simply because AE (not A&E) don't have the skills of how to use the right language/words on a radio she is a complete bust? That's fine you are entitled to you opinion. It is well known Fred nor AE were expert with a radio that's a known fact we don't need you to tell us that or give us a lesson on radio "SPEAK"! As to the pilot Franks, wouldn't he still have relied on Noonan, Noonan was the "navigator" no mater who piloted the plane! I do think an expert radio man would have had them Turn back, as he would have known right away they did not have two way radio communication. They could not find Howland, the place Noonan was navigating to but decided to fly to some other "LOST" island?? Howland was nearby to AE, the ship radio operator said so. She would have looked for that Island nearby till her last drop of gas ran out or should I put that in a pound or once for you???!!!? They ran out of gas crashed into the ocean and died on impact or drowned. Those other distress calls were hoaxes. You don't give any credit to her as a pilot because she crashed in Hawaii. Then you turn around and say she crash landed on a sand bar strip on Gardner??! Ric Gillespie (look him up) said she had to make a great landing on Gardner in order to use the engine of the plane to charge the battery to use the radio for 7 days of distress calls. You and Ric Gillespie can't have it both ways!! Of course you are both wrong.

todd mccowen

2y↑5

i think a BIG storm came ripped the plane off the beach and then it was boat for some time after ,she knew it was unsafe to be in the plane and got out died cocanut crabs did the rest .plane may have went out over a mile or two in the storm ,

Jezballz

5y↑2

...and of course he found nothing because the answer has always been on Saipan.

Jezballz

@Uneducated As I told the other poster read Mike Campbell's book.

Uneducated

@Jezballz source?

THG Driver

@Jezballz You are probably right, 17000 feet deep over 1000 Square miles of ocean. That's a just about an impossible task. But that does not mean it's not there. That "VAST" search area should keep your Japanese fairy tail intact. We will see. Good luck and god bless.

Jezballz

@THG Driver Ballard will never find her plane off Howland,I would bet my house on it...now I'm done:-)

THG Driver

@Jezballz @Jezballz Ric Gillespie has written 16 books and Tom King another 4 over 33 years all putting AE on Gardner Island, now Nikumaroro Island and "Why". Did you bother to read those 20 books? No, because they don't fit your Japanese agenda/theory. Mike Campbell wrote a book, it's probably a very good book, "BUT" it is not the "ONLY" book on where, what, when and how AE and Fred "Supposedly" Disappeared. My profound statement still stands no matter "WHO" writes a book or 20 books. The Japanese theory and the Gardner/ Nikumaroro Theory "CAN NOT BOTH" be right....BTW, it's not just myself but the USN and millions more think AE and Fred died near Howland when they ran out of gas. The "preponderance" of evidence points right there. What are you going to say when Ballard finds that plane off Howland Island??! I already know, you'll say the Japanese drug and planted it there to cover their asses. LOL Good bye!!

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