One More Good Flight

The Amelia Earhart Tragedy

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 This new book updates the story with important new information from historical documents discovered since then and also provides extensive prequel and sequel narratives that complete the saga and give new perspective to the life and death of an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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Excellent Research

If you just want sensational theories based on hearsay--like the "captured by the Japanese" theory--you probably won't like this book. But if you are interested in a keen, very detailed look at what truly has been discovered so far, you will most likely love it, as I did. This is the story of an extremely thorough and painstaking search along numerous lines of evidence. Some of the investigations didn't lead to anything useful, and they are detailed along with the many successes. I found the tale fascinating, sometimes charming, sometimes horrifying, sometimes heartwarming, sometimes frustrating, depending on the details being examined and the various personal stories that have become entangled in the aftermath of Earhart's final flight. I sometimes got mentally bewildered by all the radio navigation minutiae, but those facts are extremely important to the investigation and needed to be told in full. Overall, they did not take up too many minutes of the book, so I didn't get bored by them. Otherwise, I eagerly devoured the whole story and wished for more.

As to the narrator, he had a unique, very deep voice that, for me, sometimes made him a little hard to hear over my not-great ear buds. But he enunciated clearly and most of the time was easy to hear, if I turned it up enough. Some people described his performance as monotone and boring, and while I guess I can see what they meant, he didn't strike me that way. It's all a matter of personal preference, of course, but I've heard narrators that really were monotone, like they had no interest in nor comprehension of what they were reading, and I couldn't stand them, either. This man's performance struck me as someone who was being very calm and very rational, yet at the same time, deeply interested in what he was reading. Given the subject matter of this book--TIGHAR's meticulous research into Earhart's final flight and disappearance--I think he was an excellent choice.

I believe him

Excellent research. I believe you’re right. Thank you for all your hard work! I appreciate some of the excerpts are the same as “Finding Amelia” but with more details.

The monotone narrator is very hard to listen to

Almost didn’t finish it, Holy cow the voice is monotone and droning. I could only do 1 chapter at a time then had to give my brain a break for hours.
Story and research is top notch but choice of narrator basically ruin this audiobook.

Great analysis of Amelia Earhart’s Last Flight

Narration was horrible. Hard to hear. The book was fabulous. Don’t get audio version if you listen with any background noise at all.

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 More 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.