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[PinecastleAAF]

Somebody check a ouija board so we can get this thing wrapped up.

[p51]

I was talking about this with someone at the Musuem of Flight in Seattle over the weekend (they recently got one of the few Electras for their museum), and he said something that really made me laugh:
"Did you ever wonder what'd happen to that group if some fisherman stumbles across her real plane someday, nowhere near where Tighar has looked? What would the group do then, if someone else finds it?"
What, indeed?

[Mark Allen M]

What would the group do then, if someone else finds it?"
What, indeed?

Probably go back to searching for Bigfoot.

[K5DH]

I have to wonder how much longer there will be any significant interest in finding an answer to the puzzle. If you stood on a street corner today and asked 100 random younger people about Amelia Earhart, most of them won't have a clue who she was, and very few will care. Her disappearance was Big News at the time because she was a Big Celebrity at the time. Today, in the grand scheme of things, she's merely a footnote in history.

On a related subject, has there ever been a big effort to figure out what happened to Glenn Miller? He was also a Big Celebrity in his time who disappeared without a trace while flying in an airplane. It could be argued that he made a bigger contribution to society than Ms. Earhart did. YOMV.

[Warbird Kid]

On a related subject, has there ever been a big effort to figure out what happened to Glenn Miller? He was also a Big Celebrity in his time who disappeared without a trace while flying in an airplane.

This I believe is the most widely accepted theory:

He might have been hit by Royal Air Force bombs after an abortive raid on Siegen, Germany. One hundred and thirty-eight Lancaster bombers, short on fuel, jettisoned approximately 100,000 incendiaries in a designated area before landing. The logbooks of Royal Air Force navigator Fred Shaw recorded that he saw a small, single-engined monoplane spiraling out of control and crashing into the water. However, a second source, while acknowledging the possibility, cites other RAF crew members flying the same mission who stated that the drop area was in the North Sea. Further research by British scholars also seems to indicate that this is the most likely probability, making Miller's death a "friendly fire" incident.

[BAJ]

On a related subject, has there ever been a big effort to figure out what happened to Glenn Miller? He was also a Big Celebrity in his time who disappeared without a trace while flying in an airplane.

This I believe is the most widely accepted theory:

He might have been hit by Royal Air Force bombs after an abortive raid on Siegen, Germany. One hundred and thirty-eight Lancaster bombers, short on fuel, jettisoned approximately 100,000 incendiaries in a designated area before landing. The logbooks of Royal Air Force navigator Fred Shaw recorded that he saw a small, single-engined monoplane spiraling out of control and crashing into the water. However, a second source, while acknowledging the possibility, cites other RAF crew members flying the same mission who stated that the drop area was in the North Sea. Further research by British scholars also seems to indicate that this is the most likely probability, making Miller's death a "friendly fire" incident.

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.Expanding this slightly......I remember reading the same about 10 yrs ago in "Aeroplane Monthly" , again an ex RAF navigator? claiming it was an open secret amongst RAF Bomber Crew that Millers aircraft over flew the designated disposal area for the RAF Bombers which usually carried a mix load of incendiaries and one "Blockbuster"Cookies (4,000lb to 12,000lb) .....the area was noted as being in the southern section? of the English Channel...the aircraft was seen to be hit by the concussion wave of a cookie explosion and spiral in......

The RAF cookie was called the "Blockbuster" because it could level a city block with concussion waves.

An unexploded cookie was recently discover in Germany when low river levels exposed it....police cleared a radius of ~2km around during its disposal.
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