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Post #1 The Mysterious Disappearance of Amelia Earhart

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Post #1 The Mysterious Disappearance of Amelia Earhart

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In the video posted below, the news report is based on people finding these bones in the ocean and science has tried to prove that they are in fact the bones of Amelia Earhart.

The expert they have on clearly debunks this report as she believes that these bones they are talking about are not hers as the expert believes the plane crashed in another location. This to me seems to be confirmation bias as there is one group saying yes and another saying no it is a different location, and therefore they should be right.

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Below is a video claiming that the plane wreckage has been found and located in the Pacific Ocean buried underneath layers of coral.

They tell a story about a boy who claimed that he saw the plane crash into the ocean, but he was the only witness to this crash and he later died before telling where he saw the crash happen. With the boy being the only one who saw this happen everything after was purely based on the story from a boy and if the plane they later found not in the same area was really the plane of Amelia Earhart. This is an example of perception observation.

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Amelia Earhart Plane Debris Found Underwater

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The video below depicts the last moments of Amelia Earhart before she took off on her final voyage.

It gives you an insight into what she was going through and what her mood was like before take off. She believed that she would be able to complete this flight that no other woman had done before.

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In 1937, Amelia Earhart was about to embark on a record-setting flight around the world. In her final moments, she took her last photograph and set off from a Burbank, California airstrip, captured in recently recovered home movie footage. (2:46)

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These Are the Final Moments of Amelia Earhart on the Ground

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In 1937, Amelia Earhart was about to embark on a record-setting flight around the world. In her final moments, she took her last photograph and set off from a Burbank, California airstrip, captured in recently recovered home movie footage. (2:46)

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This website below is the the official site for Amelia Earhart and information on her life and accomplishments.

It gives you what they feel are the facts on what really happened to her on her voyage. These facts seem to be on the confirmation bias belief.

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Amelia Earhart - The Official Licensing Website of Amelia Earhart

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Welcome to the official Amelia Earhart website. Learn more about Amelia Earhart and contact us today for licensing opportunities.

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The picture below shows Amelia Earhart around the age of her final flight standing under the nose of one of her many planes she flew.

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Attached website claims that they have found the wreckage of the plane Amelia Earhart was flying.

This website is using final radio calls and location of the wreak they have found using their evidence and other local stories and people who have said they know where it is.

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The disappearance of famous pilot Amelia Earhart as she tried to circumnavigate the world in 1937 has obsessed many for years, with theories ranging from Earhart and her navigator dying on an island after they crashed in the ocean to being imprisoned by the Japanese military, suspected of spying.

Now a group of researchers say they've found a wreck off Buka Island, Papua New Guinea, that could provide the longed-for answers.

Divers from Project Blue Angel say they first located the wreckage in August 2018, and identified several characteristics of Earhart's plane, most significantly a glass disc that could be a light lens from the plane.

Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan were last heard from on July 2, 1937, during the final stretch of the circumnavigation, stretching from Papua New Guinea to Howland Island in the Pacific.

Earhart had left Oakland, California, on May 20, 1937, for Miami (with stops along the way), where she announced her intention was to circumnavigate the globe.

Then they flew across South America, Africa, India, Southeast Asia, arriving at Lae in New Guinea on June 29, 1937. With 20,000 miles behind them, they had only 7,000 left to go over the Pacific Ocean.

On July 2nd, Earhart and Noonan took off from Lae, planning to land on Howland Island. A ship, the USCGC Itasca, was stationed at Howland Island to help Earhart navigate landing her plane.

At 7:42 a.m., she radioed: "We must be on you, but cannot see you - but gas is running low. Have been unable to reach you by radio. We are flying at 1,000 feet"

At 8:43 a.m., Earhart reported, "We are on the line 157 337. We will repeat this message. We will repeat this on 6210 kilocycles. Wait." And a few moments later: "We are running on line north and south."

She was never heard from again.

The searchers of Project Blue Angel took a different approach to solve the mystery. "The Buka Island wreck site was directly on Amelia and Fred's flight path, and it is an area never searched following their disappearance," said William Snavely, Project Blue Angel director, in a statement. "What we've found so far is consistent with the plane she flew."

Most of the searches have concentrated on the area of the ocean near Howland Island. But what if, worried about fuel running low and facing headwinds, she turned around?

Divers from Papua New Guinea surveyed the site several times for Snavely. Last year Project Blue Angel divers personally investigated the site, about 100 feet below the ocean's surface.

"While the complete data is still under review by experts, initial reports indicate that a piece of glass raised from the wreckage shares some consistencies with a landing light on the Lockheed Electra 10," explains the Project, in its statement.

"Amelia's Electra had specific modifications done to it for this specific journey, and some of those unique modifications appear to be verified in the wreckage that's been found," added pilot and aerospace engineer Jill Meyers, who is Blue Angel's publicity manager.

According to Live Science, Snavely was following up on a story heard in the 1930s. "A little boy on a Papua New Guinean island saw a plane - its left wing engulfed in flames - crash onto the beach. The little boy told his elders, but they didn't believe him."

The tide dragged the plane offshore and underwater, and it became covered with coral.

"We're still exploring to try to find out whose plane it is. We don't want to jump ahead and assume that it's Amelia's," said Snavely. "But everything that we're seeing so far would tend to make us think it could be."
Read another story from us: Examining Claims that Bring Into Question Amelia Earhart's Piloting Skills
The glass discovered will be further analyzed.

"It's obviously glass that appears to be old and covered significantly with barnacles," Snavely told Live Science. "It has a rough shape and diameter that appears to be relatively consistent with lights that were on the plane back in the 1930s for Lockheed. But we don't know for sure if it's a Lockheed light. That's what we're getting checked right now."

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Researchers Discover Wreck that Could Finally be Amelia Earhart Plane

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The disappearance of famous pilot Amelia Earhart as she tried to circumnavigate the world in 1937 has obsessed many for years, with theories ranging from Earhart and her navigator dying on an island after they crashed in the ocean to being imprisoned by the Japanese military, suspected of spying.

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The website below is a biography on the life and times of Amelia Earhart and her disappearance on that fatal flight.

The site gives a non bias opinion on the disappearance as they say based on the evidence they cannot prove where the plane crashed or if Amelia Earhart survived the crash.

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Amelia Earhart (born July 24, 1897, Atchison, Kansas, U.S.-disappeared July 2, 1937, near Howland Island, central Pacific Ocean) was an American aviator, one of the world's most celebrated, who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Her disappearance during a flight around the world in 1937 became an enduring mystery, fueling much speculation.

Early life

Earhart's father was a railroad lawyer, and her mother came from an affluent family. While still a child, Earhart displayed an adventurous and independent nature for which she would later become known. After the death of her grandparents, the family struggled financially amid her father's alcoholism. The Earharts moved often, and she completed high school in Chicago in 1916. After her mother received her inheritance, Earhart was able to attend the Ogontz School in Rydal, Pennsylvania. However, during a visit to her sister in Canada, Amelia developed an interest in caring for soldiers wounded in World War I. In 1918 she left junior college to become a nurse's aide in Toronto.

Historic flights

After the war, Earhart entered the premed program at Columbia University in New York City but left in 1920 after her parents insisted that she live with them in California. There she went on her first airplane ride in 1920, an experience that prompted her to take flying lessons. In 1921 she bought her first plane, a Kinner Airster, and two years later she earned her pilot's license. In the mid-1920s Earhart moved to Massachusetts, where she became a social worker at the Denison House, a settlement home for immigrants in Boston. She also continued to pursue her interest in aviation.

During this time promoters sought to have a woman fly across the Atlantic Ocean, and in April 1928 Earhart was selected for the flight. Some speculated that the decision was partly based on her resemblance to Charles Lindbergh, who had become the first man to fly nonstop solo across the Atlantic the previous year. On June 17, 1928, Earhart departed Trepassey, Newfoundland, Canada, as a passenger aboard a seaplane piloted by Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon. After landing at Burry Port, Wales, on June 18, Earhart became an international celebrity. She wrote about the flight in 20 Hrs. 40 Min. (1928) and undertook a lecture tour across the United States. Much of the publicity was handled by publisher George Palmer Putnam, who had helped organize the historic flight. The couple married in 1931, but Earhart continued her career under her maiden name. That year she also piloted an autogiro to a record-setting altitude of 18,415 feet (5,613 metres).

Determined to justify the renown that her 1928 crossing had brought her, Earhart crossed the Atlantic alone on May 20-21, 1932. Her flight in her Lockheed Vega from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, to Londonderry, Northern Ireland, was completed in a record time of 14 hours 56 minutes despite a number of problems. She notably experienced mechanical difficulties and inclement weather and was unable to land in her scheduled destination of Paris. Afterward she published The Fun of It (1932), in which she wrote about her life and interest in flying. Earhart then undertook a series of flights across the United States.

In addition to her piloting feats, Earhart was known for encouraging women to reject constrictive social norms and to pursue various opportunities, especially in the field of aviation. In 1929 she helped found an organization of female pilots that later became known as the Ninety-Nines. Earhart served as its first president. In addition, she debuted a functional clothing line in 1933, which was designed "for the woman who lives actively."

In 1935 Earhart made history with the first solo flight from Hawaii to California, a hazardous route 2,408 miles (3,875 km) long, a longer distance than that from the United States to Europe. She departed from Honolulu on January 11 and, after 17 hours and 7 minutes, landed in Oakland the following day. Later that year she became the first person to fly solo from Los Angeles to Mexico City.

Final flight and disappearance

In 1937 Earhart set out to fly around the world, with Fred Noonan as her navigator, in a twin-engine Lockheed Electra. On June 1 the duo began their 29,000-mile (47,000-km) journey, departing from Miami and heading east. Over the following weeks they made various refueling stops before reaching Lae, New Guinea, on June 29. At that point, Earhart and Noonan had traveled some 22,000 miles (35,000 km).

They departed on July 2, headed for Howland Island, approximately 2,600 miles (4,200 km) away. The flight was expected to be arduous, especially since the tiny coral atoll was difficult to locate. To help with navigation, two brightly lit U.S. ships were stationed to mark the route. Earhart was also in intermittent radio contact with the Itasca, a U.S. Coast Guard cutter near Howland. Late in the journey, Earhart radioed that the plane was running out of fuel. About an hour later she announced, "We are running north and south." That was the last transmission received by the Itasca. The plane was believed to have gone down some 100 miles (160 km) from the island, and an extensive search was undertaken to find Earhart and Noonan. However, on July 19, 1937, the operation was called off, and the pair was declared lost at sea. Throughout the trip, Earhart had sent her husband various materials, including letter and diary entries, and these were published in Last Flight (1937).

Earhart's mysterious disappearance captured the public's imagination and generated numerous theories and claims. Notably, some believed that she and Noonan had crashed on a different island after failing to locate Howland, and others posited that they were captured by the Japanese. However, no definitive evidence was found for such claims. Most experts believe that Earhart's plane crashed in the Pacific near Howland after running out of fuel. A fixture in popular culture, she was the subject of numerous books and movies.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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Amelia Earhart | Biography, Childhood, Disappearance, & Facts

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Amelia Earhart, American aviator who was the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean. Her disappearance during a flight around the world in 1937 became an enduring mystery, fueling much speculation. Learn about her life, career, and disappearance in this article.

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This is a young Amelia Earhart. Little did she know she would grow to be one of the most famous pilots of all time and make big advancements for women in flight.

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The final picture shows the flight path Amelia Earhart took and the possible locations on where the plane wreak could be found. For years people have searched these areas and still no definitive answer as to what happened that fatal night.

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1. I felt what most surprised me was that to this day they still do not have any answers.
2. For a real-life example I do not have one or really want one of a plane crash or disappearance, what happened to Amelia Earhart is horrible and I would not want to experience that.
3.  The videos I found the most interesting as I am more of a visual/hands on learner then reading articles.
4.  That they still have not found the plane or her.
5. Appeal by Authority as with the way people are today I feel that they will believe anything they are told and this is why it is the most harmful.  The unexplained I feel is the least as people will not really harm themselves or anyone else trying to find out if something is real or not.
6. I feel the most important knowledge to pass on is that life is not easy and you have to work for what you want. Do not lean on others to make your life make your own life the way you want it and only you can do that.