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Tighar PICS: "Amelia Earhart aircraft fragment identified"

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Please DO mind that http://tighar.org is certainly not without its' detractors and doubters/cynics... :!:
But perhaps this time? :|

See lots of pictures at Tighar's own
http://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Arch ... _Step.html ,

or
http://news.discovery.com/history/us-hi ... 141028.htm
and part two at
http://news.discovery.com/history/us-hi ... 410281.htm
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.
November 2024 update at FokkerNews.nl....
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