Amelia Earhart Lost and Found?

Amelia Earhart

One of the few times in my later life that I've wanted to somehow pick up the phone and call my late father to tell him that maybe Amelia Earhart has been found, lo, three quarters of a century later.

From the NYTimes: "Recently, new evidence has emerged to support the theory that Earhart did land on an island. The same group that first caught my attention, the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, announced that it had determined that remnants of a jar, found on that same atoll in the Pacific — Gardner Island, now named Nikumaroro — may well have come from a face cream Earhart used. More significantly, using high­tech software, the group has re­examined reports of previously dismissed radio signals said to have been sent from Earhart and determined that 57 of them were credible. This summer the group is beginning a $2 million search operation based on a 1937 photo of what looks like the landing gear of a Lockheed Electra in the water off Nikumaroro."

The Earhart Project is undertaking a search. It very well may be that Earhart and Noonan managed to land the plane on Nikumaroro, did send distress signals that were received but not understood.

I wanted to talk to my dad about Amelia's failings as well, "her refusal to take a necessary antenna, her lack of knowledge of Morse code, her choice of an unreliable navigator."