Has a Piece of Amelia Earhart's Missing Plane Been Found?
BY MIKE SCHULER

MIAMI: -- A piece of aircraft debris found on a remote South Pacific atoll is reinforcing speculation that a sonar anomaly detected in 2012 just off the island is in fact the lost aircraft of Amelia Earhart.

According a group of experts with The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), new research has determined that a piece of aluminum found on the Nikumaroro atoll in 1991 is likely a window patch that was installed on Earhart’s Lockheed Electra aircraft during a brief stopover in Miami towards the start of her ill-fated world flight attempt.

In their findings, TIGHAR notes that the dimensions, proportions, and pattern of rivets found on the piece of aluminum match what would have been placed on Earhart’s aircraft.

“During Amelia Earhart’s stay in Miami at the beginning of her second world flight attempt, a custom-made, special window on her Lockheed Electra aircraft was removed and replaced with an aluminum patch,” said TIGHAR in the abstract of the new findings. “The patch was as unique to her particular aircraft as a fingerprint is to an individual.

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-- gCaptain 2014-10-31

Wow. In all the vastness of the Pacific, she came down near an atoll.

This has been known for a while.

that could be a start in solving this mystery

Gives me hope MH370 will be vound.

http://earhartonsaipan.blogspot.com

This is old news, these guys have been trying to put Earhart on this atoll for years. Putting that bit of metal on Earharts Electra is a real stretch.

The whole mysterious 'the Japanese executed her and the US Military hushed it up' thing is another stretch. All. Those Islanders' recollections though..... Darned interesting.

Wow. In all the vastness of the Pacific, she came down near an atoll.

Well if her aircraft was in trouble she would head for the nearest land hoping to ditch in the sea and then make to the land to await rescue.