After further analyzing a photograph of Amelia Earhart's airplane wreck was show time, the Obama administration on Tuesday said it was a mission for supporting this summer will hopefully to resolve the mystery of the greatest female aviator America.
The research by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery will focus on the remote island of Nikumaroro, in what is currently the Pacific nation of Kiribati. The group feels Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan would be able to land on the island, known at the time as Gardner Island, and that he might survive for a short period after the death July 2, 1937.
All others historians consider that crashed into the ocean. But conspiracy theories, including submits that they are agents of the U.S. government caught by the Japanese before World War II, despite the fact that plenty of are largely denied.
A new analysis of a picture taken in Nikumaroro three months after the passing shows what certain people may think a strut and the wheel of the plane hanging from the water, says the group. Ministry of Foreign Affairs has contributed to analysts review the picture. The assumption is that the plane crashed into a cliff at the end to be washed deeper into the sea.
The group hopes and probes along the reef revealed parts of larger aircraft such as engines are in a dim "Twilight Zone" about 300 meters below the ocean surface. The popular oceanographer Robert Ballard, who discovered of the wreck of the Titanic and the Bismarck and is, recommending the shipment Earhart, said the new analysis of the photo would be the equivalent of a "smoking gun" to be as it restricted the area of searching tens of thousands of square kilometers within manageable proportions.
In 2010, fragments of bones have been found on the island that the group suspected to be from Earhart and Noonan. All others artifacts recovered well there that recommends that the two would live for days or weeks after landing on a cliff.
The privately group financed is putting $ 500,000 for research. The United States will not be money, but shall have a limited logistics support. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Clinton came during the ceremony of.
Ric Gillespie, director of the group, has said that the new research is provided for to last for 10 days in July and will make use state-of-the-art robot submarines and underwater mapping equipment. The Discovery Channel, shipping for a TV documentary, he said. Has recognized that the evidence was indirect, but "strong", but he was far be expected the successful.