One More Good Flight

The Amelia Earhart Tragedy

By: Ric Gillespie

Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner

This book is the product of The Earhart Project, a thirty-four-year investigation of the Earhart tragedy by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery. TIGHAR investigators had no agenda. They were not out to advocate, excuse, honor, or impugn. They saw the Earhart disappearance as an aviation accident and reasoned the answer to its cause and outcome should be discoverable if they could find, assemble, and analyze the relevant data. To understand why she died it was necessary to strip away the myths and sentimentality that have grown up over the years and examine the hard truths behind how Earhart's trip around the world came about and why it went so terribly wrong.

The US Navy and Coast Guard were major players in the 1937 flight, disappearance, and search for Amelia Earhart, and in the aftermath. The story of the pressures and frustrations the services faced and the mistakes they made contain valuable lessons for today's commanders. Gillespie's first book, Finding Amelia-The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance (Naval Institute Press, 2006) chronicled what was known at that time. This new book updates the story with important new information from historical documents discovered since then and also provides extensive prequel and sequel narratives that complete the saga and give new perspective to the life and death of an American icon.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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Hard evidence, delivered by an active, engaging narrator

Some of you may have seen my scathing review of a particular Amelia Earhart dramatic presentation here on Audible, and wondered why I was/am so annoyed at the thing. The answers are here, in the pages of One Good Flight. Ric Gillespie has done a magnificent job of synthesizing the decades of interests, passions and sheer hard work done by TIGHAR and its almost uncountable numbers of volunteers, on the Gardner Island hypothesis, and its results. And he, or the TIGHAR board, hired an excellent narrator. It could be difficult to make something like the radio logs, or lists of artifacts sound as compelling as they have been reading about them via the TIGHAR forum for years. J Rodney Turner doesn't allow that to happen. Even for things that turned out to be blind alleys, the narration carries an air of remembered suspense. This is a perfect summary report to the missing persons case of Amelia and Fred Noonan.