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Earhart plane fragment may be authentic
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2014 Oct 29, 23:44 -0700
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2014 Oct 29, 23:44 -0700
"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 patch replaced a navigational window: A Miami Herald photo shows the Electra departing for San Juan, Puerto Rico on the morning of Tuesday, June 1, 1937 with a shiny patch of metal where the window had been." http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/10/29/amelia-earhart-plane-fragment-identified/ When this story surfaced in July, I said it was strange that navigator Fred Noonan would tolerate the loss of one of his sextant observation windows. However, the photo in this new article shows another window on the same side of the aft fuselage, so maybe the broken one wasn't a big deal.
