The bitch most likely found in the Pacific, not by Voyager.

The remains found on an island in the Pacific are most likely that of Amelia Earhart. Aside from the slightly misogynic title, Amelia did most likely die in the Pacific and did not end up being found by Voyager.

Looks like one of the greatest mysteries may have been solved, but also seems like she and Noonan may have survived for a while a well. That had to suck.

They've been saying that they think those bones were hers for at least a decade based on the old measurements, but IMO the fact they finally plugged this into a computer doesn't really prove anything. They need to find a bone or tooth or something they can DNA test, or they need to find the wreck of the plane.

Actually the really sad thing is that if this was her, the crabs probably started to eat her before she was dead, but was simply too weak to keep them off of her. :/

Extremely thin evidence.

Does she have any family or family remains to match DNA with?

That said I've always been kind of glad that at least she and Noonan made it to dry land and didn't simply perish at sea.

I almost feel like instant death is somewhat better than ending up on some island just to die from some awful disease or lack of resources. But I’m not a fan of waiting.

The waiting is the hardest part.

Just knowing you aren’t going to get rescued seems awful.

That is not cannon

Apparebtly the old bones were lost back in the 1940's.

She does have a niece who (as far as I can tell) is still living, but I don't know enough about DNA to know if that testing would be useful in the event that the bones were rediscovered.

Maybe she'll find this thread... and can weigh in.

If someone could find a piece of that Elektra on/near Nikumaroro--and it's got to still be there somewhere--then that would pretty much close the book on the mystery.

Edit: looks like someone's done that. It's looking very probable that Earhart and Noonan set down on the Nikumaroro atoll, and lived there as castaways until they died.

They have hair samples from one of her brushes.

Given the age of the article, I'm not sure. I remember watching a documentary video about it, and it came out that some fragment they found and thought was from her place was later identified as coming from some WWII bomber. They tried looking over where that object sticking out of the water could be seen, but they had a mishap with their ROV and had to abort.

There is to this day considerable debate as to how good a pilot she really was. Some think she was merely a mediocre pilot who was heavily hyped by Pulitzer.

but what if you had some epic CAST AWAY Tom Hanks adventures on the island? Or some fun filled light hearted Gilligan's Island hilarity? Worst case scenario a
Lord Of The Flies thing.

Hype (to fill seats) over talent & skill? It wouldn't be the first time.

They are never going to find her if we do not get going on eugenics and make kahn so we can go to war and then create warp drive and meat the Vulcans so we can join the Federation and get in a war for some boring planet near a wormhole and create a resistance force which flies into the garlands with a Mexican Indian commander and really trump needs to get on that eugenics thing.

And you would think that somewhere in all of those episodes someone would have mentioned trump winning or the first African American president. Are we really to believe none of this mattered in the upcoming world war? Personally I am still waiting for Tim Taylor to crash land at a sci fi convention.

Not every "stranded on a deserted island" scenario turns out bad. I read an account of a guy who drifted on to a deserted island in the Pacific in his inflatable life raft.

He found so much food that he actually gained weight in his five months or so there. Hundreds of plastic containers washed ashore. So many that he collected so much fresh water from the rain that he not only had plenty to drink but filled his raft with fresh water and took baths.

Because he had plenty of food and water he decided not to risk trying to leave and waited until a ship came up just off shore.

This sounds like the greatest thing ever. If this happened to Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot...Fred something?--then they probably died from having too much island pleasure sex.

With my luck I’d end up on the island from Lost and I’d get bit by a spider like Nikki and Paulo.

Remember Cast Away, the movie where Tom Hanks plays a Fed Ex employee who gets stranded on a deserted island? He's there for years, is ultimately rescued, and returns to his previous life to find that everyone believed him dead and that his fiancee has married another man. Taking some time to decide what he wants to do with his life, he delivers the one Fed Ex package he had on the island that he didn't open to its recipient. The movie ends.

Someone asked the film's director, Robert Zemeckis, what was in the package. His reply was awesome:

Damn, that's cold.

The country music singer/actress who played the recipient of the package died recently.

Fake news and alternative facts! She's still alive and living in a remote cabin with Elvis, Tupac, and Chris Farley.

This Sonar Splotch Could Be Amelia Earhart's Lost Plane

Be wild if they dredged it up, and she's not in it.
...cuz the aliens took her!

Looks promising; it's not like we lost a fuckton of small aircraft over the Pacific in the 1940s or anything.

They've actually got 'em all cataloged, and nothing is missing in the area that they found it.