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Ric Gillespie, the director of the International Group for Historic Aircraft
Recovery (TIGHAR), thinks Earhart spent her last days as a castaway on a
desolate Pacific island.
Stranded after a crash-landing, Gillespie believes, Earhart used the radio from
her damaged plane to call for help for nearly a week before the tide pulled the
craft into the sea.
Gillespie, a pilot and accident investigator, has made 11 expeditions to Gardner
Island, in the Western Pacific. He's trying to raise money for a 12th to support
He posted a video presentation about the Gardner Island theory on YouTube last
month and recently touted "New Research, New Evidence, New Understanding."
------> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jSyR0Jyafk
But, he said: "We've been testing this hypothesis for 28 years. ... This
supposed new theory is actually the oldest theory."
"We found a tremendous amount of support for it," Gillespie added.
Some of that support comes from Earhart's radio signals seeking help, which
investigators say most likely emanated from an area near Gardner Island,
Gillespie said.
And a 1937 British expedition exploring the island for settlement snapped a
photo of what Gillespie said shows part of the landing gear from Earhart's plane
sticking out of a reef.
"On an uninhabited island, there shouldn't be anything sticking up out of the
water," Gillespie said.
Adding to the body of evidence, Gillespie said, the radio in Earhart's plane
could not work if it had been in the water as suspected; yet she sent out radio
signals for nearly a week after apparently crashing.
"Earhart made a relatively safe landing at Gardner Island and sent radio
distress calls for six days," Gillespie said in the YouTube presentation. "There
are 47 messages heard by professional radio operators that appear to be
credible."
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