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== Articles == | == Articles == | ||
* [http://tighar.org/TTracks/13_1/cantonengine.html The Canton Engine] | * [http://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/13_1/cantonengine.html The Canton Engine] | ||
* [http://tighar.org/TTracks/14_1/Kanton_Mission.html The Kanton Mission] | * [http://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/14_1/Kanton_Mission.html The Kanton Mission] | ||
* [http://tighar.org/TTracks/14_1/The_Pilots_Thought...html The Pilots Thought I was Nuts] | * [http://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/14_1/The_Pilots_Thought...html The Pilots Thought I was Nuts] | ||
* [http://tighar.org/TTracks/14_1/Ate_Another_MRE.html Ate Another MRE] | * [http://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/14_1/Ate_Another_MRE.html Ate Another MRE] | ||
* [http://www.tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/forum/Highlights21_40/highlights35.html Excavating the Kanton Engine] | * [http://www.tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/forum/Highlights21_40/highlights35.html Excavating the Kanton Engine] | ||
* [[Francis_Ivor_Fleming_(1888-1968)#The_Poems| Noel Coward's poems written on Canton in 1941]] | * [[Francis_Ivor_Fleming_(1888-1968)#The_Poems| Noel Coward's poems written on Canton in 1941]] | ||
[[Category:Expeditions]] | [[Category:Expeditions]] | ||
Revision as of 02:57, 22 February 2011
Note: TIGHAR and its sources use both spellings of the name. Both have been (and apparently will be) used indiscriminately in our discussions.
On February 14-16, 1998, a thirteen person TIGHAR team flew to Kanton Island to investigate the possibility that an engine from Earhart’s plane had been inadvertently brought there in 1971 during a U.S. Air Force missile testing program. Bruce Yoho, the individual who recovered the engine in 1971 (and now an active TIGHAR member), came along to show us where he dumped the Pratt & Whitney R1340 which he had found on a reef on one of the other islands of the Phoenix Group. Although he was able to locate the spot, we were surprised and disappointed to find that the contents of the dump had since been buried.
- Vessel: Chartered Gulfstream 1 Turbo-prop corporate aircraft
- Port of Embarkation: Honolulu, Hawaii
- Destination: Kanton Island, Republic of Kiribati
C-87 Crash
7 February 1943
The C-87 (cargo/passenger version of the B-24) was on a night approach to Canton with a five man United Airlines crew and 16 Army passengers. The pilot did not request, and the tower at Canton did not provide, a current altimeter setting. The airplane simply flew into the ocean about a mile out with the altimeter reading 300 feet. Three men survived, including the co-pilot who was thrown through the windshield. Eighteen were lost. It appears from the report that only one body was recovered--a Lt.Col. Morton.
TIGHAR has the full 20-page Army Air Forces report on that accident courtesy of Craig Fulller of Aviation Archaeological Investigation & Research (AAIR).