TIGHAR
The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) is a nonprofit organization located in Delaware, U.S..[1] Founded by Richard Gillespie in 1985, TIGHAR identifies themselves as "a non-profit foundation dedicated to promoting responsible aviation archaeology and historic preservation."[2] TIGHAR has long been involved with the search for Amelia Earhart, and advocates the theory that Earhart successfully landed on Gardner Island, now known as Nikumaroro.[1]
Search for Amelia Earhart
Since 1988, TIGHAR has been testing the hypothesis that the missing 1937 flight of Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan landed at Gardner Island.[3] Archival research and multiple expeditions to the island have led TIGHAR to believe that the plane landed at the periphery of the atoll leaving Earhart and Noonan as castaways. TIGHAR notes that they still need conclusive evidence such as a piece of Earhart's Electra with a serial number or DNA evidence.[1] In 2010 TIGHAR recovered bone fragments from Nikumaroro which they considered to be possibly human.[4] Subsequent analysis of the fragments proved inconclusive.[5] In 2012, analysis of a photograph taken in 1937 prompted TIGHAR to conduct an underwater search for Earhart’s plane.[6]
See also
References
- ^ a b c
Lori Van Pelt (June 2006). Amelia Earhart: The Sky's No Limit. Tom Doherty Associates. p. 215. ISBN 978-0-7653-1062-0. Retrieved 2013-06-08.
Executive Director Ric Gillespie has visited the island of Nikumaroro in the Phoenix Island group seven times since 1989.
- ^ "About TIGHAR". Retrieved 2013-06-08.
- ^ http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Overview/AEhypothesis.html
- ^ http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/currentwork.html
- ^ http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/Bulletins/59_DNAResearch/lewisstatement.pdf
- ^ http://news.discovery.com/history/us-history/amelia-earhart-tighar-lockheed-electra-120702.htm
Further reading
- Kim Geiger (20 March 2012). "Hillary Clinton blesses renewed search for Earhart plane". Retrieved 2013-06-10.
Clinton recalled admiring Earhart as a woman who, 'when it was really hard, decided she was going to break all kinds of limits – social limits, gravity limits, distance limits.'
- U.S. Department of State (20 March 2012). "Remarks. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. At an Event Celebrating Amelia Earhart and the United States' Ties to Our Pacific Neighbors". Retrieved 2013-06-10.
I also want to acknowledge Ric Gillespie of the International Group for Historical Aircraft Recovery;
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