Earhart's Plane Found?

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2018

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

Of all the hypotheses of what happened to Amelia Earhart and her Electra 10-E, William "Bill" Snavely, Jr.'s may be the only one that starts with a found plane and traces her route backward towards her last known contact point. Operating on a hunch that due to low fuel, Earhart may have decided to turn back to a viable landing strip, which would have taken her directly over the path of Buka Island, east of Papua New Guinea. While in Buka searching for clues, Snavely received a tip that an airplane had crashed in 1937 and still lays submerged off the coast in 100' of water. According to Snavely, only roughly 30% of Earhart's route has been searched and has yielded nothing, so why not search the remaining 70%? Taking that approach has found a plane that so far, matches the description of Earhart's Electra. If an expedition could be mounted to identify this plane more thoroughly, could it be that one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th Century will be solved once and for all?

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0:37.8	Nearly 81 years prior to the release of tonight's episode, Amelia Earhart and her navigator,
0:43.6	Fred Nunein, set off for one of the last legs of their around the world flight,
0:48.1	which would have made her the first woman to circumnavigate the globe by plane.
0:53.2	For Amelia, finishing it would be a crowning achievement on her already storied career
0:58.8	as a pioneering aviatorics.
1:01.0	Unfortunately, after taking off from a short dirt runway in Papua New Guinea on July 2, 1937,
1:07.3	Earhart and Nunein would never officially be seen again.
1:11.3	We add officially as a qualifier in this case because as you can imagine,
1:15.5	the search for answers to what happened to Earhart and Nunein has uncovered a multitude of
1:19.6	plausible hypotheses depending on how you evaluate the evidence left behind.
1:24.1	One of them even has a widely debated photograph, but that's not what tonight's show is about.
1:29.6	Tonight's show is about the plane.
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