Has the mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart finally been solved?
A new report says a fragment of the lost aviator’s 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.
Earhart had been attempting a record-setting flight around the world at the equator.
According to Discovery News, new research strongly suggests 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.
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In 1946 the British Royal Navy did a survey of all of the islands in this chain including Nikumaroro for downed aircraft and survivors. They found a wrecked twin motor aircraft and two skeletonized bodies. They recovered the bodies recorded the aircraft # and the destroyed the aircraft with shellfire(this was done so that no one would search the island twice) They sent the information to the US Navy and took the remains back to England for internment in a military cemetery. The "mystery" of Amelia Earhart is a 100 million dollar a year industry, I don't look for it to be "solved" anytime soon as the "treasure hunters" and "mystery" buffs don't want an end to this. They are making far to much money and having way to much fun to let this one die. P.S. The current "searchers" went to this island because they found the Royal Navy's 1946 report----Ray
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