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From the source linked in another comment: (edit, ugh, I hate HN formatting, can never get it right even after all these years) ---- One piece of good news fo
by rconti 3y ago
From the source linked in another comment: (edit, ugh, I hate HN formatting, can never get it right even after all these years)
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One piece of good news for Romeo’s search is that there are probably very few other planes anywhere near Howland. An airstrip was built on Howland in the 1930s in anticipation of commercial trans-Pacific flights, but Earhart was going to be the first to actually use it. During the war it was bombed by the Japanese to prevent its use, and that’s the extent of its aviation history. None of the WWII air-sea battles were fought in the vicinity, and it’s much too remote for general aviation planes to ever go near.
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- wolverine876 3y agoWho is Brian Dunning and what do they know about the subject?
- NikkiA 3y agoHe's wrong because that is an area that the USN actively did carrier training in from 1945 to today, and lots of planes ended up in the ocean after missing a landing, a take-off failure, or just because the pilot had to bail for whatever reason. Heck, during the evacuation of Hanoi they were pushing perfectly good jets into the ocean just to clear enough room for helicopters and the odd cessna, but that would have been further west. https://theaviationgeekclub.com/that-time-a-south-vietnamese-o-1-bird-dog-landed-aboard-uss-midway/ https://theaviationgeekclub.com/that-time-a-south-vietnamese...
- iudqnolq 3y agoNot sure why you're bringing up the evacuation of Hanoi. Further west is a hell of an understatement. Howland Island is closer to San Francisco than Vietnam. It's thousands of miles from that anecdote.