[SIZE=2]I'm reading another book about Amelia that claims that there were "credible" reports of contact with her after the incident.
A day or two after she went missing; two radio men in two different locations reported the same weak signals; both stating that they seemed to originate from the Phoenix Islands Group.
Some contacts were deemed false because the voice being transmiited was a male voice - many did not know that Fred Noonan was aboard the flight.
One amateur radio operator in the States using a specially built antenna claimed to have heard calls for help from Amelia; with her reporting that they had landed on a reef surrounding an island; giving a position consistent with the Phoenix Islands; that Noonan was seriously injured and needed immediate attention; she was injured; but less seriously so.
This contact was said to have been made on a frequency of 15,000 kilocycles; which is the fifth harmonic of her chosen frequency of 3105 kilocycles; a scenario that (by experts of such things) is considered distant; but within the realm of possibility.
The plane could only transmit if the right ( I think) engine was under power; it powered the radio and charged the batteries. There was no "emergency" or portable radio on board.
I just saw a grainy video of her take off from Lae, New Guinea in route to Howland; which shows her broadcasting antenna; and her radio direction finding antenna; in tact atop the Electra; but her recieving antenna on the belly of the plane is missing.
One too many bumps on that grass runway with a plane overloaded with fuel; I guess; which might have rendered her deaf.
I'm starting to think that they did make landfall; and they did broadcast for help; until the tide came up and washed the plane off of the reef.
I think we will eventually know what happened to Amelia; I think they will eventually find the plane; it's still there near wher it landed or crashed.
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