International correspondent Sari Maw filed the following:
A group of investigators embarks this week on a new attempt to discover whether famed aviator Amelia Earhart may have died as a castaway on a remote South Pacific island. The expedition by 15 members of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, will be the group's ninth visit to Nikumaroro, located about 1,800 miles south of Hawaii. The group will spend 17 days searching for human bones, aircraft parts and any other evidence to show that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, reached the island on July 2, 1937, crashed on a reef at low tide and made it to shore, where they possibly lived for months as castaways, written off by the world as having been lost at sea. Despite an official finding that they ran out of gas and crashed in the ocean, the case spawned a once-popular claim that the pair were captured and executed as spies on a Japanese-held island.
In reality, those in the know, understand that Ms. Earhart has been living comfortably in outer space with The Biavians.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
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