re: Researchers zero in on Amelia Earhart's disappearance after 88 years

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Are there not more important things to research?

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TheOcean

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You really thought you’d get away with it didn’t you

Farewell first lady of the air:

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I almost got head from Amelia Earhart

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It's amazing the time and resources that's been spent on trying to find this attention grabbing split-tail. From what I've read in the paat, she wasn't that great of a pilot.

Robert Ballard's finding of the Titanic was part of the cover for a US Navy project that used recent advances in seafloor surveying to locate sunken nuclear submarines, ours and the Russian's. In fact, they were doing something else.

A big technical problem with locating Earhart's plane is the small size. The Western Pacific is loaded with similar-size junk.

I'm pretty sure i read about them finding the Electra recently using the date line theory.
Essentially, they were slightly off course, without much extra fuel, and didn't have many options to land.

https://www.datelinetheory.com/p/effects-of-date-line.html?m=1

They were tired and may have forgotten to turn back the date when crossing international date line, which put them 60 miles further west than they thought they were. This is due to celestial navigation changes.
Also, some of her instruments had broken along the way, and she wasn't able to receive the 2 way communication from the stand by ships.
They were already making the transit with barely enough fuel.
So, she had to do a controlled ditch when they weren't where they needed to be.
All of it is very plausible.

https://youtu.be/zTDFhWWPZ4Q?si=MACaZSinOKLktkj5

Everyone knows she disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. They aren’t even searching in the right ocean.

Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack

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its pretty funny that the most famous woman pilot of all-time was most famous for crashing

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and getting lost

I’m wondering what about that image even definitively makes it plane wreckage