A constraint-based analysis comparing contemporaneous operational logs with later descriptions of the search.
This is a structural review of the Amelia Earhart search record based on contemporaneous operational records.
It compares contemporaneous operational logs with later summaries of the search.
The goal is to clarify what the record supports—and what it does not.
The question is not what happened in the air, but what happened in the search—and whether areas later described as searched were in fact covered in a sustained way.