Advanced search  
Pages: 1 2 [3]   Go Down

Author Topic: Plane wreck believed to be Earhart's found in Bougainville  (Read 52966 times)

Don Dollinger

  • T3
  • ***
  • Posts: 239
Re: Plane wreck believed to be Earhart's found in Bougainville
« Reply #30 on: March 09, 2011, 02:34:56 PM »

Well that explains the problem of it being overloaded when it left Lae, it wasn't all that fuel it was all of that gold.   ;D

Obviously someone found a copy of the script of the new Harrison Ford film coming out, "Indiana Jones and the Snake Gold of Buka Island".

LTM,

Don
Logged

Thom Boughton

  • T2
  • **
  • Posts: 89
  • Infinite Rider on The Big Dogma
Re: Plane wreck believed to be Earhart's found in Bougainville
« Reply #31 on: March 09, 2011, 11:54:20 PM »

Well...it's patently obvious, actually.

They had all that gold on board to pay for the fuel at Howland.  I know that's about how much it cost to fill my Chrysler the other day.   ;D



....TB
TIGHAR #3159R
 
Logged

Vahe Demirjian

  • T1
  • *
  • Posts: 28
Re: Plane wreck believed to be Earhart's found in Bougainville
« Reply #32 on: December 27, 2012, 04:20:41 PM »

Has there been any latest word on the plane wreck reportedly found off Bougainville? In light of the debris field found off nikumaroro, we see no reason to think that AE made navigational errors and went back to New Guinea.
Logged

Bob Lanz

  • T4
  • ****
  • Posts: 422
Re: Plane wreck believed to be Earhart's found in Bougainville
« Reply #33 on: December 27, 2012, 09:20:16 PM »

Has there been any latest word on the plane wreck reportedly found off Bougainville? In light of the debris field found off nikumaroro, we see no reason to think that AE made navigational errors and went back to New Guinea.

She was too close to Howland Island to have turned back and made it back to Lea with the low fuel load she had left.  She was past the point of no return.
Doc
TIGHAR #3906
 
Logged
Pages: 1 2 [3]   Go Up
 

Copyright 2024 by TIGHAR, a non-profit foundation. No portion of the TIGHAR Website may be reproduced by xerographic, photographic, digital or any other means for any purpose. No portion of the TIGHAR Website may be stored in a retrieval system, copied, transmitted or transferred in any form or by any means, whether electronic, mechanical, digital, photographic, magnetic or otherwise, for any purpose without the express, written permission of TIGHAR. All rights reserved.

Contact us at: info@tighar.org • Phone: 610-467-1937 • Membership formwebmaster@tighar.org

Powered by MySQL SMF 2.0.18 | SMF © 2021, Simple Machines Powered by PHP