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Re: Amelia Earhart Report
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2011 Mar 5, 00:10 -0800
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2011 Mar 5, 00:10 -0800
| Looking at the rest of the news story. 5. "But local and old men and women from the island have their stories of this wreck since it crashed in strong lightning and bad weather which hit its left wing forcing it into the sea, nose first."Airplanes do not crash when struck by lightning, they are made out of aluminum which makes them into a "Faraday cage" so the electrons flow on the outside of the skin and does very little damage, usually a hole about the size of a quarter where the lightning struck and a second similar hole at the other extremity of the plane where the lightning leaves. 6. "The oldest man alive said he was 10 in 1937 when the plane with two people went down just off their reef."So the "oldest man alive" is now 84 years old, I would expect that there would be older people than that in PNG. 7. Since the "oldest man alive" couldn't see the people inside the plane before the crash, the only way he would know that there were two people in the plane is if they got out of the plane after the crash. What happened to them? Did they die of injuries and, if so, where are they buried? Were they captured and executed by the Japs? well not unless they lived for five years on Bougainville because the Japs did not invade Bougainville until January 1942. "The Japanese Invasion of New Ireland 1942 The 23rd of January 1942 is well known as the day the Japanese forces captured Rabaul at the beginning of the Pacific War and established a major base there, only seven weeks after the sneak air attack on Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941 which brought America into the war." gl --- On Fri, 3/4/11, Gary LaPook <glapook@pacbell.net> wrote:
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