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Amelia Earhart was a famous American aviator and a writer. This aviation pioneer became the first woman independently flew the Atlantic Ocean. She wrote many popular books and significantly influenced the appearance in the world a large number of female pilots flying on an equal footing with men. Named Amelia Earhart several space objects, as well as many vehicles, awards, events and institutions.
In 1937, 39-year-old Amelia tried to commit a dangerous round-the-world flight on a light twin-engine aircraft “Lockheed Model 10 Electra “however failed. Aircraft disappeared without a trace in the central part of the Pacific Ocean, not far from Howland Islands. Neither the wreckage of the airplane, nor the bodies of Earhart herself and her no navigator was found. Life, career and mystery (still not yet guessed) the disappearance of the pilot attracts to this day attention of historians.
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Many warships were searched for the missing, including the battleship “Colorado” and the largest at that time aircraft carrier “Lexington”, and also 66 aircraft. The official version says that Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan fell into the ocean, where they died. According to another hypothesis, The Japanese Empire secretly shot down an American plane and captured a couple, after which she was executed in Garapan prison during World War II war. Now, researchers have a new theory of death Earhart and Noonan, and this version will seem to some more worse.
The crab version cannot be considered absolutely true
Experts report that the pilot and navigator may have survived the plane crash and for a short time were on remote uninhabited island. Exhausted without water and provisions, Americans could become victims of very unexpected enemies – giant coconut crabs found in the western Pacific and Indian oceans. The length of such arthropods may exceed one meter, and the weight is more than 5 kilograms. If desired, especially a large adult is able to bite a person’s hand in a brush. A if there are a lot of them?
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Land coconut crabs, also known as palm thieves, prefer to eat coconut pulp, however these creatures omnivores. Sometimes they devour carrion, other crustaceans, and even small animals, and in the video below you can to see how such a monster easily copes with a seagull. Even if Amelia and Fred died before palm thieves got to them, crabs could well feast on the remains of the unfortunate and to spread them all over the island, as they often do.
Experts are still hoping to find the skeletons of the missing, but if coconut crabs are actually involved here, unfortunately may not be possible.
On the other hand, advocates of paranormal theories say where is the plane? Where did even the smallest traces of it disappear? And how much in Atlantic such mysterious disappearances, is it really possible all of them blame on crabs and other predators, which, incidentally, do not eat ships or planes? That is, the materialists found another version the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, but she, like many others, put forward earlier, cannot serve as an absolute explanation of what actually happened 80 years ago with this legendary aviator and her friend …
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