i am enthralled by the story of the last flight of AE in july 1937 and am aware of the several theories of where the a/c could have ended up...
TIGHAR has theirs...and its plausible,
as a young girl listening as a keen radio ham on the US east coast heard a faint transmission of an american woman clearly in distress and she made out the words she thought sounded like 'new york city'
that of course maybe 'norwich city' which was the wreck of the steamer on the island TIGHAR has been searching and where they think the plane landed close to the wreck on the reef.
no search was made here after the loss and anyone would have died eventually.
the other theory which is most interesting,
is that she turned back along the line towards Lae (her origin) in the knowledge she had fuel to possibly hit a chain of islands before darkness.
more chance of seeing landfall than hanging around trying to spot the specks of a support ship, howland or baker islands...
at the end of WW2 on the pretty much unknown and uncharted island of New Britain (which was along the line of AE flight) some Ozzie troops clearing out the last of the Japs and came across wreckage of an a/c and logged engine P&W serial number which are the same as AE's a/c.
this was all reported back to HQ and forgotten.
a chap called Dave who posts on here has been back to that region a few times and has met the veterans of the Oz patrol and has a location map to try and find the wreck which is deep under a jungle canopy.
real boys own stuff and wildly fascinating, wish i could go along!
http://www.pprune.org/non-airline-tr...rts-again.html
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