Posted on 10/30/2014 8:14:51 AM PDT by bkopto
Could one of aviation's most enduring mysteries be solved? An aircraft recovery group says it may already have a part of Amelia Earhart's plane, and it thinks it knows where to find the rest of it.
The International Historic Aircraft Recovery Group says new testing of a piece of metal found in the vast waters of the Pacific Ocean in 1991 gives the group "increasing confidence" that it's a part of the Lockheed Electra.
In a press release the group argues that the aluminum debris is likely a patch that Earhart had put on her plane in place of a window. The group says the patch had a distinctive shape, size and "pattern of rivets."
"The patch was as unique to her particular aircraft as a fingerprint is to an individual," the group wrote. Now the groups says research on the aluminum "matches that fingerprint in many respects."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Parking lots are few and far between in the ocean.
Thanks bkopto. Her's and Fred's remains must be on the island somewhere, and probably neither one was buried by the other. This is not yet Saturday, and it's a modern history topic, but I'm making this the Digest ping for the week.
Yes, why would you patch over a window like that? It seems strange. Maybe she really was on a spy mission for the Navy, as some have suggested over the years.
That's how conspiracies work, Son ...
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