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Group: Piece of metal may solve mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance
CNN ^ | 10/30/2014 | Emma Lacey-Bordeaux

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 ...


TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: 1937; ameliaearhart; earhart; frednoonan; godsgravesglyphs; lockheed; lockheedelectra; nikumaroro
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1 posted on 10/30/2014 8:14:51 AM PDT by bkopto
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To: SunkenCiv

GGG ping


2 posted on 10/30/2014 8:15:17 AM PDT by bkopto (Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
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To: bkopto

So....I’m guessing the rivets were ferrous and eroded by the salt water?


3 posted on 10/30/2014 8:17:09 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: bkopto

Couldn`t have been that many of that

model of plane in the area.

Unless someone has flown across the Pacific

they have no idea how big it is.Brave lady,dumb

idea that flight was.

Got an aunt that still has some AE luggage.

Bit old looking,but still work just fine.


4 posted on 10/30/2014 8:25:04 AM PDT by Harold Shea
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To: bkopto

Pretty good evidence cuz you have to find a reason for another “size and type” to be in the area.


5 posted on 10/30/2014 8:30:43 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: bkopto

Interesting that rivets factor with Earhart crash...

Apparently rivets a big factor in the Titanic sinking as well. Iron in place of stronger steel rivets, where dictated by limited access for pneumatic hammers and then need to hand form/drive the rivet. Iron rivets with slag and/or slag in a weakening alignment versus an alignment that would have made the rivet stronger.


6 posted on 10/30/2014 8:35:11 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Gaffer
"the rivets were ferrous"

Unlikely.

7 posted on 10/30/2014 8:35:57 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: bkopto

This is total BS. The guy is a professional scammer.


8 posted on 10/30/2014 8:36:59 AM PDT by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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To: Gaffer
The rivets would have been aluminum, like the majority of the airframe.
Some steel rivets are used where more strength is needed - a patch over a window opening (an odd modification) would not be such a case.
9 posted on 10/30/2014 8:39:17 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: bkopto

More fun if it remains a mystery. What if Elvis is still alive? Was there a 2nd gunman in Dallas? Was there really a one armed man? Oh yea that was solved.


10 posted on 10/30/2014 8:47:52 AM PDT by cynicalman
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To: Harold Shea

“Got an aunt that still has some AE luggage.”

Had some, too.

But they got lost one time on a flight from Hawaii.

/banda - bing/


11 posted on 10/30/2014 8:48:32 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: bkopto

http://doubtfulnews.com/2014/10/a-piece-of-the-earhart-plane-remains-are-a-questionable-claim/

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4295

http://skeptoid.com/blog/2012/03/20/more-amelia-earhart-nonsense/

http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/06/tighar-accused-of-racketeering-in-earhart-plane-recovery-project/


12 posted on 10/30/2014 8:50:43 AM PDT by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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To: bkopto

AE is working in a Seven-Eleven in Detroit with Elvis. He works the swing-shift, AE works the graveyard-shift. That is why they are never seen.


13 posted on 10/30/2014 8:51:24 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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To: iowamark

The threads on TIGHAR over on WarbirdInformationExchange (WIX) are always fun to read.


14 posted on 10/30/2014 8:52:13 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: C210N

The rivets are a factor in identifying the aircraft remains not in the crash.

The crash was caused by lack of fuel.


15 posted on 10/30/2014 8:53:56 AM PDT by tanknetter
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16 posted on 10/30/2014 8:58:01 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

If Elvis were alive, he’d have made an appearance when his wacky daughter “married” equally wacky Michael Jackson.


17 posted on 10/30/2014 9:01:32 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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“If Elvis were alive, he’d have made an appearance when his wacky daughter “married” equally wacky Michael Jackson.”

ROFL


18 posted on 10/30/2014 9:59:49 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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To: bgill
If Elvis were alive, he’d have made an appearance when his wacky daughter “married” equally wacky Michael Jackson.

If he didn't die of a heart attack from the shock first.

19 posted on 10/30/2014 10:07:22 AM PDT by IndyTiger
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To: C210N

rivets, yes. also the type of steel plates used on the hull. apparently on the brittle side.


20 posted on 10/30/2014 10:22:06 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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