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Arrow Amelia Earhart Plane Fragment Identified




Ric Gillespie, executive director of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, holds a scrap of airplane wreckage that he contends is consistent with a window patch on the Lockheed Electra that Amelia Earhart was flying when she disappeared in 1937.Joseph Kaczmarek/The Associated Press


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A fragment of Amelia Earhart's lost aircraft has been identified to a high degree of certainty for the first time ever since her plane vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937, in a record attempt to fly around the world at the equator.

New research strongly suggests that a piece of aluminum aircraft debris recovered in 1991 from Nikumaroro, an uninhabited atoll in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati, does belong to Earhart’s twin-engined Lockheed Electra.

The search for Amelia Earhart is about to continue in the pristine waters of a tiny uninhabited island, Nikumaroro, between Hawaii and Australia.

According to researchers at The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), which has long been investigating the last, fateful flight taken by Earhart 77 years ago, the aluminum sheet is a patch of metal installed on the Electra during the aviator’s eight-day stay in Miami, which was the fourth stop on her attempt to circumnavigate the globe.



Amelia Earhart Plane Fragment Identified : Discovery News

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See the footprint on that piece of aluminium?

One time Chuck Norris did a roundhouse kick and his foot broke the speed of sound and went back it time, that's what took out Amelia Earhart's plane.
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The coconut crabs may have eaten her.

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See the footprint on that piece of aluminium?

One time Chuck Norris did a roundhouse kick and his foot broke the speed of sound and went back it time, that's what took out Amelia Earhart's plane.


But he says " consistent with a window patch "

must be !
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They've been trying to find that plane and make a bundle of money on it for decades.
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Did those crabs eat the rest of the airplane?
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They've been trying to find that plane and make a bundle of money on it for decades.

I know, it's nuts. The value of scrap aluminum is phenomenal.
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Did Sir Francis Drake write a message on it?

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why does she have a iphone holster on her belt?

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...has been identified to a high degree of certainty...

Sounds like parsing or legalese to me.

I hope they dig down about 20 feet under the spot where they found it and find MH370.

That would make for an excellent new agey TV show.
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I heard there are dozens of Amelia Earhart's planes buried in the burmese jungle and they are preserved like brand new!
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When I was on Saipan, some of the natives claimed that she and her navigator crashed there and were captured by the Japanese. I searched the jungles all over the island but only found this.
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that's not an iphone holster. good lord they didn't have those then.

it's clearly from a Motorola star tac.
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Several years ago some guys from TIGHAR came to our Civil Air Patrol squadron meeting and told us about their exploits. They said a skeleton of a Caucasian female was found somewhere near where they thought this wreck was some time after WWII. The local authorities couldn't identify so they cremated the remains a while ago. They don't seem to be talking about this now that they're trying to raise more funds to play Bob Ballard lol.
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Anyone see the special on this that the history channel aired sunday 7/09 ?
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But he says " consistent with a window patch "

must be !
I never trust Windows patches. they always break something!
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Anyone see the special on this that the history channel aired sunday 7/09 ?
Recorded it but not watched yet.
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Anyone see the special on this that the history channel aired sunday 7/09 ?
Is it a spoiler alert to say a case was made?

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