Debris came from Amelia Earhart’s plane?

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Debris came from Amelia Earhart’s plane?

It has remained one of aviation’s enduring mysteries. But researchers on the trail of missing 1930s aviatrix Amelia Earhart now say they are increasingly convinced that aluminum debris found on a South Pacific beach came from her lost airplane. The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) said the debris bolsters the possibility that a sonar blip off Nikumaroro atoll in Kiribati is the fuselage of her ill-starred Lockheed Electra. Earhart, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic solo, was attempting to circumnavigate the world in 1937, flying close to the equator, when she and navigator Fred Noonan vanished without a trace. She was 39 at the time.

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