My post of April 1 about why search Kanton was not meant to be written in the "wise guy" tone it sounded like. But finding Amelia's engine in the dump would open up a whole new can of worms. That is, if Bruce was really mistaken and the engine came from Kanton, then she crashed on Kanton. Did anybody look for her there? Was there people there at the time? Now it would be more important to seek out every helicopter pilot that was ever stationed there to see if any one of them ever hauled an engine from anywhere to Kanton. Didn't the pilots have to keep logs? Would they get in trouble if they flew to Niku and someone learned they logged it as hoisting practice on Kanton? In other words falsified their logbook? Of course searching out every pilot who might be alive would be just too much trouble and the guy might well be dead by now. Maybe somebody could tell me if they really did make out accurate logs back then or any logs at all? I acknowledge they wouldn't know which island they were on, anyway.
Also, I just finished reading the reconstruction of Amelia landing in the water. It seems like if they made a nice landing, they would not be injured. That makes sense. The simulation shows 30 ft. of water, I think. But why would they land in the water when according to what I have read, landing on the reef would have been "easy as pie". I admit I'm not a pilot and I know next to nothing about such choices. Somewhere on this website, I don't remember where, I thought I saw somebody state the reef was full of cracks and holes and would not have made a smooth landing.