As for myself, I'd argue that it actually constitutes no such thing. Earhart's last reported position, as relayed by U.S. Navy vessels pre-positioned in the vicinity to anticipate her arrival and receive her radio transmissions, was just off Howland Island, a U.S. administered territory (with Baker Island) which is located nearly 1,000 miles to the east of the Marshall Islands.

During Earhart's approach to Howland Island in the early morning hours of July 3, 1937 -- which was July 2 on our side of the International Date Line -- the USS Itasca received strong and very clear voice transmissions from her identifying as KHAQQ, which were her aircraft's call letters. So, Navy personnel knew that she was nearby because of the radio strength of those transmissions; they just couldn't see her, nor could she see or hear them because for some reason, she could only transmit and not receive at this point.

They also knew that she was running low on fuel, because she had informed them of such repeatedly. Her last known transmission was received by the Itasca at 8:43 a.m. local time:

"We are on the line 157 337. We will repeat this message. We will repeat this on 6210 kilocycles. Wait. We are running on line north and south."

The notion that such a renowned and experienced pilot as Amelia Earhart could have been nearly 1,000 miles off course on a 2,500-mile flight leg and somehow ended up over the Marshall Islands is, at best, far-fetched. There are also stories that her equally experienced navigator Fred Noonan was a hard drinker. But I don't care how soused he could get, someone as experienced as he was is not going to make that sort of obscenely gross miscalculation in navigation.

The U.S. Navy's and U.S. Coast Guard's frantic air-sea search for Earhart and Noonan began that morning and continued for 16 straight days, which at the time constituted the largest (and most expensive) such single endeavor of that kind in U.S. history. But despite those efforts, no trace of the aircraft or its crew was ever found.

More importantly for the purposes of the upcoming History Channel special, there are no Imperial Japanese naval records which either document or otherwise support the claims being made on the basis of this particular lone photograph.

And further, given that the United States and Imperial Japan still enjoyed relatively decent relations in July 1937, there would have been no reason for the Japanese to have held Earhart and Noonan as prisoners without informing the American government. Contrary to the assertions of some, our own U.S. military knew full well at the time that the Japanese were militarizing their Micronesian holdings, in violation of the League of Nations mandate.

Speaking for myself only as someone who's fairly well versed in Ms. Earhart's aviation exploits due in part to her historical ties to Honolulu, I hazard to guess that the most likely explanation of what happened to Earhart and Noonan is also the most rational and plausible one.

That is, they overshot Howland Island on a cloudy and overcast morning and, having run out of fuel in the ensuing desperate effort to locate their small target, they were compelled to ditch their aircraft at sea where it unfortunately and very quickly sank, probably taking them down with it. No pieces of aircraft wreckage were ever found in the vicinity of Howland Island or its surrounding ocean waters.

It should also be noted that those surrounding waters around Howland Island are over 17,000 feet deep, so it's hardly surprising that no trace of the aircraft has yet to be found. And the nearly 1,000-mile (1,600 km) distance from Earhart's last known position near Howland Island to the Marshall Islands would have been impossible for Earhart's twin-engine Lockheed Electra aircraft to fly, since it would have required nearly 8 hours of flight when she had less than two hours of fuel remaining.

We remember Amelia Earhart because she's arguably our country's favorite missing person. That said, not all mysteries are necessarily meant to be solved in our own lifetimes. It took researchers 73 years to definitively locate the wreck of the RMS Titanic in the North Atlantic, and another number of years to determined what exactly happened to the ship on that fateful night of April 15, 1912.

No doubt, if Ms. Earhart's Electra were to be found eventually, its discovery would likely be the most profound since that of the Titanic.

seemed a little like a smack on the wrist.  3 mill, when he was willing to spend more than half that on a whim,  and a promise to train "their employees" better.

I recommend Vanguard for the brokerage, personal investment accounts. Their fees and expense ratios are better than the other companies... basically they take less of your earnings than the others.  I like their index funds.  The Vanguard 500 index fund is an example.... well diversified, no fees when you buy and  has a very low expense ratio.  

As for 401Ks....  they are somewhat controversial. Some even call them a scam because of all the hidden fees and lack of control. However, if I worked for a company that was doing a 25% matching contribution, I would probably take advantage of that.  

From what I understand, the Canadian government has apologized to Khadr exclusively for the conduct of its own officials, and that apology is not applicable to the conduct of their American counterparts at Guantanamo.

That's because Khadr is a Canadian citizen by birth and as such, it was Canadian intelligence operatives and not the Americans who had actively interrogated the teenager, and who had signed off on the use of so-called "enhanced interrogation" techniques used on him.

Most importantly, Khadr was a child combatant, the use of which by al Qa'eda constitutes a war crime in and of itself. Khadr's father was responsible for having placed his young son in harm's way.

But the show isn't just about Franklin, and though the show is very skillfully made and impeccably performed overall, it suffers a little from the bloated storytelling issues that are currently endemic to the industry. To be clear, it's almost good enough to make that breadth worth it -- the pilot, after all, is certainly worth it.

ive read similar things in different reviews.  i guess i understand that reviewers have a lot of things to review and they want to get onto the next thing but its odd to me that after whining forever about shallow stories and undeveloped characters suddenly "bloated story telling" is "epidemic to the industry"