The Lost Flight Of Amelia Earhart Summary
Assuming these stories corroborate, and they describe the same incident, there is a discrepancy. As convincing as Mrs. Michiko’s and Akiyama’s account sounds, we must consider a another possibility. Misremembering, a psychological occurrence where a third party introduces false facts to an eyewitness who then create false memories, is a possible culprit for the lack of cohesive testimony. Laura Engelhardt writes in the Stanford Journal of Legal Studies that “experiments in the mid-seventies” demonstrates that “false cues altered participants memories” 21. When eye witnesses hear cue words, they tend to ‘misremember’, or create a figment of thought that is interpreted as a memory, but is not true. In the studies, performed by Elizabeth Loftus, participants were shown pictures of cars at
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The Japanese would not have wanted to admit this since they would also be admitting to military presence in the region. As Carol Linn Dow points out in her book “The Lost Flight of Amelia Earhart”, whether Earhart and Noonan were in fact spying for the U.S. government, the Japanese “had little choice but to have considered the two as such” 29. This theory is more plausible, as one only has to prove that the Japanese captured them instead of also proving Earhart and Noonan were spies. The only obstacle standing in the way of this theory is that Noonan was an excellent navigator; the Marshall islands are more than 800 miles northwest of their original destination of Howland Island. He would not have deviated so far off course, unless they were spying (with, as mentioned earlier, equipment there was no room for on the plane), or he was drunk, which some have speculated was the case. However, Earhart would not have been so foolish as to embark on the largest leg of their journey with an inebriated navigator, a position requiring full mental facilities to navigate over the vast Pacific for any amount of
The Japanese would not have wanted to admit this since they would also be admitting to military presence in the region. As Carol Linn Dow points out in her book “The Lost Flight of Amelia Earhart”, whether Earhart and Noonan were in fact spying for the U.S. government, the Japanese “had little choice but to have considered the two as such” 29. This theory is more plausible, as one only has to prove that the Japanese captured them instead of also proving Earhart and Noonan were spies. The only obstacle standing in the way of this theory is that Noonan was an excellent navigator; the Marshall islands are more than 800 miles northwest of their original destination of Howland Island. He would not have deviated so far off course, unless they were spying (with, as mentioned earlier, equipment there was no room for on the plane), or he was drunk, which some have speculated was the case. However, Earhart would not have been so foolish as to embark on the largest leg of their journey with an inebriated navigator, a position requiring full mental facilities to navigate over the vast Pacific for any amount of