Did Amelia Earhart land on Gardner Island? TIGHAR explains hypothesis in-depth | LiveNOW from FOX

Richard E. Gillespie, Executive Director of the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) speaks in-depth with LiveNOW's Austin Westfall about the recent news of Amelia Earhart's plane possibly being found underwater. Gillespie is skeptical of this week's news, and offers his hypothesis on Gardner Island (Nikumaroro).

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[thepuffin-ssln]

Hes just pissed he didnt find it. You can't say a 100% that the image is the plane. But it's definitely thought, provoking and deserves a closer look, it may be her plane.

[EF-fcdu]

Gillespie's research is horrible. His ability to completely ignore evidence that contradicts his thesis is legendary in Earhart investigation circles.

[vaexplored]

This guy sounds jealous that someone else may have found her plane. If he’s so invested in finding her, it seems to me he would help the other group and not ridicule them.

[kellecetraro]

Why is Richard Gillespie so grotesquely and fervently offended by somebody saying they 'may' have found it and want to dive on the site to verify? That is after all what should be done, yeah?

He should be delighted, and excited for the possibility that it might be there, what the hell's wrong with people?

[alanhart]

Gillespie better hope this is not her plane.

[DJmemoriesPlaylists]

25 year old college graduates all over the country are asking who's that?

[christopherblack]

Earhart radioed the Itasca that she was low on fuel. There are estimates she had less than 20 gallons of fuel remaining. Why would anyone think she would be able to fly another 350 miles South to Nikumaroro ?
Plus, if she couldn’t find Howland Island and didn’t know her location, how could she navigate to Nikumaroro ?
This guy from TIGHAR has been leading people on a wild goose chase for decades.

[Mr.Schitzengigglez]

It's just a whole bunch of, 'I've been doing this for 35 years, and haven't found a thing.
So, you can't be right."
Science, at its worst.
I'm ashamed to see what this man is saying.

[MarkSmith-perd]

Folks, I have been to Niku 5 times on expeditions, the freighter that’s wrecked there with the exception of the deck winches, the keel and until recently, the engine, is nowhere to be found after exposure to storms on the reef. if you walk the reef as I have, you see flecks of rusted steel about the size of a quarter or smaller occasionally and that’s from the ship. One good storm and the airplane is trashed and shredded. I think the research Tighar has done is encyclopedic in breadth and depth, which does not translate into a TV interview of this length. That said, if the site of the recently captured sonar image when photographed, shows NR16020, Earhart’s plane, I’ll be convinced. The idea that the wings are swept due to a motion artifact produced when the AUV was moving is kind of silly. If that were the case the distortion would apply to the whole image not just the wings, so that being the case how would you ever know what you’re seeing in the sonar image? We may learn more in the coming years if these guys get back to the site west of Howland where this sonar image was picked up. Until then, the sonar image could be noise, some rocks or other combination of geologic features or is some other lost aircraft ….

[TheUnfulfilledOne]

I believe She did make it to that Island, because there were a lot of broken human objects found there such as:a broken jar of freckle cream and a broken piece of a knife.Also Amelia wouldn't have given up and before she took that last final flight she had a good look at the surrounding area and so she most certainly knew where other close Islands were located!

[rogerscottcathey]

The fuselage may be in a depression and the wings broken at the body and folded upwards giving rhe illusion of swept back wings . . The twin vertical stabilizers are strongly suggested and the port engine seems to be roughly where one would expect it to be on a broken wing . . . Of course it's promising. Why the pessimism? Of course it's worth looking into no matter if it is or isn't her plane

[craigmclaughlin]

Sonar images are notoriously distorted due to distance from bottom, obliqueness to object, water density, terrain features and obstacles. Nobody knows anything for a fact until an actual closeup image of the object is taken. Gillespie will find it hard to give up decades of research and alternative theories if it turns out this is indeed Earhart’s plane but we’ll know soon enough and anyone that has a passive interest in the story should wait until this new object is either confirmed or denied before jumping to further conclusions.

[christopherstimpson]

He's been looking for 35 years, because when he sees it, he denies it.

[jaybee]

Gillespie pissed he wasted 20 years looking in the wrong place due to confirmation bias.

[rushingtravel]

We know exactly where she landed, but we have no evidence either!🤣

[ApogeeUK]

Gillespie talks about confirmation bias but his own evidence is simply not conclusive. Granted, neither is the sonar image... but if the sea bed is largely a flat expanse in that area it may well be an aircraft. Not necessarily the Electra, but it does look like a plane to me. Periodola perhaps but definitely worth checking out.

[MisterTechnologic]

Shows how little research they did before this show. Radar bends in that deep water. This is actually exactly what you would expect.

[garycody]

Richard Gillespie seems as though he's pissed cause he did not find it.

[scotgronewold]

If you are out of fuel you are not charging any batteries.

[brianaustin]

Seems to me that someone has a case of the sour grapes knowing you've wasted 35 years of your life on a wild goose chase 😂