NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2024 Feb 2, 07:30 -0800
Don S, you mentioned a "more detailed" news report...
Is it this one:
www.postandcourier.com/news/special_reports/amelia-earhart-search-[...] ?
That article includes this:
"Yet any search also had to take into account the possibility that her plane floated after it crashed: Its empty fuel tanks would have created enough buoyancy to keep the plane floating for a while, said Gary LaPook, a lawyer in California who has investigated aircraft crashes and challenged Gillespie’s claims that Earhart flew 400 miles south to Nikumaroro Island. 'That theory is defeated by the fact that she was out of gas.'
LaPook said Romeo called him while they were at sea to pick his brain about search areas.
Romeo’s team also was interested in what Liz Smith, another Earhart researcher, called the 'dateline theory.' "
Frank Reed
