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Amelia Earhart Mystery Solved?

Matt Gutridge's picture
October 30, 2014 at 7:03am
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An excerpt from msn.com/news:

Researchers at The International Group for Historic

Earhart

Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) revealed that a piece from Amelia Earhart's vanished aircraft has been identified in Nikumaroro, an atoll in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati.

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Evidence from 10 previous expeditions to Nikumaroro led researchers to believe that the two died as castaways without resources. "Earhart sent radio distress calls for at least five nights before the Electra was washed into the ocean by rising tides and surg," said Ric Gillespie, executive director of TIGHAR, in an interview with Discovery News.

The full article.

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