Nicole Zabaleta
Finally, this mystery is clarified; the disappearance of Amelia Earhart could have been solved. Thanks to a rigorous forensic study that shows a great probability that the bones found on an island located in the South Pacific are likely hers.
In a newly published study, Richard Jantz, a great anthropology professor and emeritus director of the Center for Forensic Anthropology at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville said bones found in 1940 on Nikumaroro Island “have more similarity to Earhart than to 99 percent of individuals in a large reference sample.”
A new perspective of this case
Jantz exemplified new techniques to revise these original findings from DW Hoodless, the first doctor to examine the bones after their discovery on the island. Hoodless determined that they belonged to a man, but that was refuted by Jantz. The error was corrected by the advances of science.
The anthropologist Jantz co-created a program called Fordisc. It serves to classify the skeletal measurements by sex and descent. This program was the one that helped determine that the bones belonged to a woman. In addition, according to the university, Jantz used other means, such as clothing and photos, to help determine the size of her bone.
“Until definitive evidence is presented that the remains are not those of Amelia Earhart, the most convincing argument is that they are hers.”
For those who do not know much about this case, we will give you a brief introduction to this mystery:
Amelia Earhart is the first American aviator who managed to break almost all the records that were proposed throughout her life.
One of her first achievements was to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane. The other three women who had tried this feat had died in the attempt.
Last record of Amelia Earhart
Between 1935 and 1937 this woman dedicated herself to prepare what would be the challenge that would mark her career. Go around the world flying around the equator. This challenge had a great obstacle, the Pacific Ocean. A very large expanse of water in which there is practically nothing and in which, with just one mistake, it could be perdition.
After the pilot’s lack of fuel, she marked the descent of her plane, disappearing in a location that nobody knows yet. Many theories that could have fallen to the southwest of the Nukumanu Islands, but none has been true until now.
Possible Whereabouts Theories
After the unsuccessful efforts of the search, it was left behind on July 18 of that year. Even though her husband invested a large sum of money to keep the search active.
Between the two theories recognized worldwide are:
1- It is believed that the plane ran out of fuel before reaching an island, crashing in the middle of the ocean. Leaving no trace of the accident. The problem of looking at the sea is that it is too wide and deep to locate a small sunken plane more than five kilometers from the surface
2 – The theory that the plane landed near the Phoenix Islands. This theory was supported when in 1940 you found for the first time the bones associated with Amelia Earhart, along with some remains as a sextant box.
What will be the real theory that ended the life of this pilot woman? Will we need 10 more years of technology to discover this? No doubt an admirable story of a great woman who marked the world of aviation.
