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Researchers
revealed they may have found a fragment of Amelia Earhart’s lost plane, the
Lockheed Electra, in early November. The
scrap of aluminum was recovered in 1991, when it washed up on the shore of
Nikumaroro, 350 miles from where Earhart supposedly landed 70 years ago, on
Howland Island. The 19 by 23 inch sheet
of aluminum is said to be similar to a shiny patch on the side of the Lockheed
Electra, according to a photograph from The Miami Herald. The International Group for Historic Aircraft
Recovery (TIGHAR) has been working to determine whether the sheet of aluminum
is a fragment of Earhart’s lost plane through forensic photo imaging.
Another
story surrounding the Amelia Earhart case developed when sonar images of a reef
near Nikumaroro showed an object matching the Electra, lying under 650 feet of
water. Ric Gillespie, the executive
director of the TIGHAR, plans to further investigate this next year.
