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[Jim Jordan]

Hi Kent,

Yes, that's right, Amelia Earhart was lost in the Pacific as you said, but
she was using even more primitive navigation equipment than USN Flight 19 in
the Bermuda Triangle.  The story of Flight 19 can be found at:
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq15-1.htm  It was very easy to be lost in
those days and never be found, especially over open ocean.  It's easy to
lose perception of the vastness of the oceans in this day of good
communications and travel.  I can imagine what Christopher Columbus' guys
must have felt like: "this idiot is going to run us off the edge of the
earth".

Again, I referred to Amelia Earhart's primitive nav equipment and the fact
that she was over the ocean where there are few, if any, points of
reference, and not that she was lost in the Bermuda Triangle.  The Navy's
story of her last flight is at http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq3-1.htm

Cheers!

Jim Jordan 

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Kent McLean [mailto:kentmclean at mindspring.com] 
>  Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 9:35 AM
>  To: 'Quattro List'
>  Subject: Re: Methyl hydrate should have been methane hydrate
>  
>  Jim Jordan, when talking about the Bermuda Triangle, wrote:
>   > Lots of planes were lost never to be heard from again  > 
>  e..g. Amelia Earhart.
>  
>  Amelia was lost over the South Pacific, somewhere between 
>  New Guinea and Howland Island.
>  
>  --
>  Kent McLean
>  '94 100 S Avant, "Moody"
>  '89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy" up in smoke
>  
>  
>  
>  

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