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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 2255121, member: 199"] Fun story but no - Gardner Island is an atoll in the Pacific where an old photo shows what looks to be part of a plane sticking up from the reef and where a few items have been discovered that could be from Earhart - a jar of her favorite face cream and small bits of plane that could be from her plane. It made a big splash a few years ago, and investigators continue to search the island on a yearly basis. On the time frame - moving an aircraft from a beach or field onto a boat (that would need to be arranged) is never a simple operation especially on some small pacific island in 1937 and would take some effort to arrange even if being performed by the Japanese military. If it had landed safely and just needed fuel, flying the plane off after refueling would be much easier, so chances are it had mechanical difficulties or had crash landed if that is the plane on the boat. And small pacific islands aren't brimming with safe landing areas other than possibly beaches. Yes there were a lot of tensions in the Pacific in the late thirties and significant spy activity - one reason that people theorize that Earhart might have been spying for the US government - a theory that breaks down for me somewhat in that over the intervening 80 years someone with access to prewar files likely would have exposed that information - it would not have been that big a secret or black mark against whatever agency employed her by the time WWII was over. [/QUOTE]

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