Re: Is This Amelia Earhart's Plane? Debris from Wreck Found Off Papua New Guinea - amelia dock.jpg (alt.binaries.pictures.aviation)

2019/02/06 10:35

On 05/02/2019 22:10, Miloch wrote:
> Dunno...according to The Times in the UK, she was captured & maintained as a
> prisoner...as well as her plane!
>
> Photo caption: "The circled figure on a quay in the Marshall Islands may be
> Amelia Earhart, also inset. Behind the boat is a barge bearing her aircraft,
> Electra. Close to her on the dock is her navigator, Fred Noonan"
>
> https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/amelia-earhart-died-a-prisoner-of-japanese-after-surviving-crash-qgwbvpx25
>
Problem is, that photo was published 2 years before she went missing!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/11/blogger-discredits-claim-amelia-earhart-was-taken-prisoner-by-japan