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Newly Discovered Photo 'Very Convincing Evidence' In Amelia Earhart Conspiracy

Newly Discovered Photo 'Very Convincing Evidence' In Amelia Earhart Conspiracy

New evidence has emerged as part of a History Channel documentary.

James Dawson

James Dawson

A recently discovered photograph has added weight to the theory that aviator Amelia Earhart might have survived a crash landing during her around-the-world flight 80 years ago.

Conspiracy theorists have often speculated that she was captured by the Japanese following the crash.

According to a new History Channel documentary, a photo was found buried in the National Archives that appears to back-up their claims.

Credit: PA Images

The photo - supposedly taken days after the 39-year-old pilot crash into the South Pacific atoll - shows a picture of a woman - who has short hair like Amelia Earhart - with her back to the camera and a man that looks like her co-pilot, Fred Noonan.

Kent Gibson, a facial recognition expert, who studied the photo, said in the History Channel special that it's 'very convincing evidence' that the photo is of Noonan.

"The hairline is the most distinctive characteristic," Gibson said. "It's a very sharp receding hairline. The nose is very prominent."

However, Japanese authorities appear to have quashed the speculation, having told NBC that there are no records indicating that Earhart was ever in Japanese custody.

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In 1993 a former PAN AM pilot named Henri Keyzer-Andre published an autobiography called Age Of Heroes: Incredible Adventures of a PAN AM Pilot and his Greatest Triumph, Unravelling the Mystery of Amelia Earhart.

While in Japan to assist in reviving its aviation industry he claimed to have industry uncovered information that led him to conclude that Amelia Earhart was shot down by the Japanese in the Pacific in 1937.

And in 1990, the NBC-TV series Unsolved Mysteries broadcast an interview with a Saipanese woman who claimed to have witnessed Earhart and Noonan's execution by Japanese soldiers.

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Born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24, 1897, the daughter of a railroad attorney, Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, for which she received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross.

In June 1937, Amelia embarked upon the first around-the-world flight at the equator. On July 2, after completing over 22,000 miles - nearly two-thirds of the flight - Amelia vanished.

Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence, will air in the USA on Sunday.

Featured Image Credit: US National Archives

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