On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 05:32:25 -0500, Cub Driver
wrote:

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:48:05 GMT, Larry Dighera
wrote:

This was the conclusion reached by author Fred
Goerner in his The Search for Amelia Earhart.

Book authors will advance any theory, however loony, in order to sell
books, or perhaps to advance a cause they believe in.

I'm quite sure Goerner was a pilot who totally believed
the theory he advanced in his book. He wasn't in it
for the money.

This is not to
say that Earhart was not doing a bit of spying, but that nobody has
come close to proving it.

Right. For the die-hard conspiracy theorists, the absence of
evidence is evidence of a coverup.

The truth seems much more mundane: Earhart,
like many another pilot, screwed up.

That seems to me to be an accurate and concise statement
of the truth.

The Pacific Ocean is a large
place, and it is hardly surprising that no one has found the aircraft
or the bodies, especially given the war that soon followed.

The Navy mounted the largest search-and-rescue mission in
its history to that date--but everyone who has read about
searches for wrecks or participated in such searches
knows how easy it is for lost aircraft to stay lost.

Marty