Source: Post Courier
Link: http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20110302/news.htm
Published: 02 March 2011
Link: http://www.postcourier.com.pg/20110302/news.htm
Published: 02 March 2011
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| Amelia Earhart Getting Statue in U.S. Capital (Source: http://blogs.babble.com/ ) |
DIVERs are about to try to confirm the final bit of evidence to prove a plane wreck off Bougainville is really that of the long lost flyer Amelia Earhart.
The Bougainville Amelia Expedition team in Buka have a checklist given to them by the American Group that they have been in contact since 2009 and who has been assisting them from the United States on the mission.
The US group (named) is also establishing contacts with the US State Department in America to try and help the Bougainville team with equipment and assistance they need to do their final investigation and confirmation.
The divers and the local group are currently camping at the island where the crash site is located and have been progressing their expedition to confirm the last thing they are going to need to prove that the plane is really Earhart’s.
And the group, although, have found gold in the plane, are also trying to determine if the gold was smuggled out from the Wau gold field from that era as Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan made their last flight out of Lae before they mysteriously disappeared.
The divers and the local group involved have detailed to the group in the US that they are now checking the fuel fillers of the plane, one of the last things to check before the checklist is complete.
They identified that there are two sculls still in the plane, one at the pilot side.
The expedition has also found that the plane is a twin tail aircraft, the front with antenna loop is still intact, the window at the right side is above the wing, the front rivets are in the middle of the windscreen and the plane’s left wing is damaged and grossly covered in coral.
The disappearance of Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan has been one of the great mysteries in the world.
Yesterday, the oldest man, now 95, Amos Sipiria, said he was a young boy going to school when the plane crashed into the sea amidst heavy rains, clouds covering the sky and lightning on an early morning.
The Bougainville Amelia Expedition team in Buka have a checklist given to them by the American Group that they have been in contact since 2009 and who has been assisting them from the United States on the mission.
The US group (named) is also establishing contacts with the US State Department in America to try and help the Bougainville team with equipment and assistance they need to do their final investigation and confirmation.
The divers and the local group are currently camping at the island where the crash site is located and have been progressing their expedition to confirm the last thing they are going to need to prove that the plane is really Earhart’s.
And the group, although, have found gold in the plane, are also trying to determine if the gold was smuggled out from the Wau gold field from that era as Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan made their last flight out of Lae before they mysteriously disappeared.
The divers and the local group involved have detailed to the group in the US that they are now checking the fuel fillers of the plane, one of the last things to check before the checklist is complete.
They identified that there are two sculls still in the plane, one at the pilot side.
The expedition has also found that the plane is a twin tail aircraft, the front with antenna loop is still intact, the window at the right side is above the wing, the front rivets are in the middle of the windscreen and the plane’s left wing is damaged and grossly covered in coral.
The disappearance of Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan has been one of the great mysteries in the world.
Yesterday, the oldest man, now 95, Amos Sipiria, said he was a young boy going to school when the plane crashed into the sea amidst heavy rains, clouds covering the sky and lightning on an early morning.
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| L–R, Paul Mantz, Amelia Earhart, Harry Manning and Fred Noonan, Oakland, California, March 17, 1937. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart ) |
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