A spokesman for the EAA in Oshkosh says wasn’t convinced a new photo was proof that Amelia Earhart survived a crash landing in the Pacific Ocean and the latest development indicate that’s the case. A documentary that aired this month on the History channel claimed the figure in the photo is Earhart. But a Japanese military history buff found library records showing the photo was actually published two years before the famous aviator vanished in 1937. EAA spokesman Dick Knapinski says it would have been very difficult to cover it up for 80 years if Earhart had survived the crash. “The pieces just don’t seem to add up. Everytime you start to put them together they don’t seem to add up,” Knapinski told WFDL news. In an English-language post, the blogger explains that “the photograph was first published in Palau under Japanese rule in 1935, in a photo book … So the photograph was taken at least two years before Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937 and a person on the photo was not her.” Meanwhile, Knapinski says if Earhart was a modern day aviator she would almost certainly have attended the EAA airventure. The EAA airventure begins next week at Wittman Airport in Oshkosh.
