Mysteries Of Time

I chose this title to open up the field to other suitable subjects.  I'm sure there are others who also are interested in those modern mysteries that keep coming up.

I'm a fan of the enduring search for Amelia Earhart, so I posted this latest on the search.  Those who have AOL mail can also see a video of the debris trail mentioned, and for those who don't, it appears that some of the wreckage is a wheel unit from the landing gear of an aircraft.

Man-made debris seen in underwater video filmed off the coast of a Pacific Island may reportedly be from Amelia Earhart’s plane, which researchers believe disappeared somewhere over the Pacific in 1937.

Reuters reported that The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) conducted a $2.2 million expedition to Nikumaroro, a remote island. When the group returned to Honolulu and inspected the video, they noticed a trail of man-made debris they say may be wreckage of Earhart’s plane.

"It's still very early days, but we have man-made objects in a debris field in the place where we'd expect to find it if our theory on the airplane is correct," Ric Gillespie, the director for TIGHAR, told Reuters. The group reportedly examined 30 percent of the video collected.

The original, widely-accepted theory was that the pioneering flier's plane ran out of fuel over the Pacific Ocean, where she and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared. The two were three-quarters of the way toward successfully circumnavigating the globe around the equator, and were en route to Howland Island when the plane went down in the ocean, according to longstanding theories.

Researchers are now challenging that theory, saying that Earhart crashed on Nikumaroro, where the two survived for days before dying of injuries, hunger or thirst.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/08/18/researchers-reportedly-may-have-video-that-shows-amelia-earhart-plane-debris/

Edited by Mountain Man - 18-Aug-2012 at 14:36