How A 15 Yr Old Girl In Florida Received Emelia Earhart's Last, Chilling Radio Transmissions
Howdy folks and greetings from the Great Plains of North Texas!
Recap
In yesterday's post we talked about what caused Emelia's plane to be so far off course.
Researchers believe it was part error on her navigator's calculations but also cloudy weather which prevented him from using the stars to correct their path and lastly, the radio signals were not getting to the ship which was waiting for her on Howland Island and their's were not getting to her.
They ended up being 100 miles off course and close to running out of fuel.
Today's story
Emelia landed on the first island she saw which was Nikumaroro. Actually it is technically an Atoll which is an outcropping of coral. Apparently they were not seriously hurt even though the landing had to be a rough one.
She kept broadcasting, trying to reach the Coast Guard ship Itasca, at Howland Island. They weren't receiving her transmissions but a girl in Florida was!
Betty was 15 at the time and loved listening to her father's radio, he'd put a 60 foot antenna up and the radio had abilities to receive short wave transmissions.
Betty was sitting in front of the radio when she heard a female voice come over saying, "This is Emelia Earhart. This is Emelia Earhart." source
Well, Betty was a big fan of Emelia like so many girls and women of the time so she excitedly grabbed a school notebook and began taking down every word she could make out.
The transmission was faint, scratchy, fragmented and intermittent. It kept breaking up so she didn't really get sentences but one or a few words at a time. This went on for an hour until they stopped.
When her father got home Betty told him about it and showed him the notebook and he rushed out and called the Coast Guard. But they blew him off. They told him that they had ships in the area and everything was under control.
Obviously they didn't take him seriously. If they HAD, they would've been able to find her in quick order!
No one believed her
Betty kept the notebook and tried for decades to get someone to listen to her about it but no one would until the research group that I talked about in previous posts, TIGHAR...which stands for The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, took notice.
Those guys did indeed listen to her and went and sat down with her and her notebook 60 some years after the event. They determined that her dad's radio which was a Zenith Model 1000Z, was very capable of receiving signals from the South Pacific.
You can read TIGHAR'S technical analysis on how this is possible here
Here are the three pages of notes that she took... in her handwriting and also printed out so they're easier to read.
Page 1:
Page 2:
Page 3:
According to these notes, obviously they had landed on a beach and not crashed in the ocean as the government has always stated. It sounds like they had some minor injuries, especially Fred.
According to the timeline she had landed at low tide so the plane filling with water was the high tide coming in a few hours later.
She was telling them exactly where she was
The TIGHAR researchers couldn't understand why she would be repeating the words "New York" though.
They think she was actually saying Norwich. Because on Nikumaroro is a well known ship wreck of the Norwich City, a steamer that ran aground in 1929.
They believe she was telling everyone where she was because she knew they were aware of that ship.
Here's a photo of Nikumaroro taken in 1938 which clearly shows the grounded Norwich:
In the next post we'll talk about more evidence and the ongoing search being conducted by Rober Ballard, the man who found the Titanic.
Thanks for reading folks, God bless you all!
-jonboy
Texas
PS- A special shoutout to the 9th Grade class of @anneke. I heard they were excellent students with a thirst for knowledge. Keep up the good work!
That's just sad. Things could have ended so differently.
Yes, apparently the military nor any ships picked up those distress calls so they didn't believe that a 15 yr old at home could have!
I can see why the kid thought she was hearing New York.. When it was Norwich.
Yes Ma'am it does make sense and I'm sure that's what Emelia was saying. I think it's amazing that she would think to write it all down, they think it was quite accurate too. Except the New York thing. lol.
Actually they could have save her... man that's so sad
What a terrible shame that the 15 yr old wasn’t believed.
Isn't that something? I can understand why they didn't believe her but someone should have at least appointed someone to check out her story.
Anybody know if Emelia had an accent?
The transcript says N.Y., and they assume this means New York, and think this was her saying Norwich.
I can see why this probably all sounded like nonesense to somebody reading it back. Anybody know to what level of effort went into the oceanic rescue search? It almost seems like there was a bit of a cover up operation, or perhaps it really did come down to prejudice against a young girl and her miracle home radio working better than the military could manage.
Howdy creativetruth! Yes, Betty explained to the researchers that she abbreviated what she thought was New York being said.
I haven't read that they sent any airplanes out to look for her, I know they had several ships that went out, but I don't think they knew how far off course she was. Back in the 30's I don't think they had planes in use that were designed as search planes.
That's a good point about the military not wanting to admit that a regular civilian radio could pick up what their radios couldn't! There definitely could have been some efforts not be embarrassed which could mean a coverup. Great points creativetruth, thank you!
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This is making me sad! A little sick actually, that they could easily have been saved, and only 100 miles away. Great work, as always.
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If they landed on the beach and the plane was no longer there then the tides took it out into the ocean? Why wouldn't they have gotten out of the plane after the landing....or why would they sit there in the plane with the tide rising?...so many unanswered questions still...I sure hope the guy finds the plane so we can finally know one hundred percent for sure.
Howdy sunlit7! Yes they think she landed on a part of the beach which is level and smooth but narrow and then it drops off deep into the ocean. They say it would only have stayed there a few days before being washed off that narrow beach into the deep ocean.
I think they were just trying to use the radio as much as possible because they knew the high tide would come in and they didn't know how long they could use it. I think they used it over a couple of days until the water got too high or the plane was washed off the beach.
They transmitted at night because the blazing hot temperatures made the plane feel like an oven in the daytime. They also did a little bit of Morse Code at the last.
A transmission was received by Morse Code which said it might be their last transmission because of rising water. But for some reason the navy ships and coast guard weren't receiving the messages except maybe that last code message but I don't think they could reply back so that had to have been very discouraging for Emelia and Fred.
Indeed.
I never expected to get a one word reply from sunlit7! lol.
Hummm....you suggesting I am long winded? lol.
lol...no I'm saying you're a writer and not like some (mostly males) who just grunt or on steemit they give a one or two word answer much of the time! Most women are better communicators anyway.