Signs of Amelia Earhart's Final Days?

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Source: DiscoveryNews
Rossella Lorenzi

Tantalizing new clues are surfacing in the Amelia Earhart mystery, according to researchers scouring a remote South Pacific island believed to be the final resting place of the legendary aviatrix.

Three pieces of a pocket knife and fragments of what might be a broken cosmetic glass jar are adding new evidence that Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan landed and eventually died as castaways on Nikumaroro, an uninhabited tropical island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati. The island was some 300 miles southeast of their target destination, Howland Island.

"These objects have the potential to yield DNA, specifically what is known as 'touch DNA','" Ric Gillespie, executive director of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), told Discovery News in an email interview from Nikumaroro.

Gillespie and his team will be searching the tiny island until June 14 for evidence that Earhart's twin-engine plane, the "Electra," did not crash in the ocean and sink, as it was assumed after the futile massive search that followed the aviatrix's disappearance on July 2, 1937.

http://news.discovery.com/history/amelia-earhart-island-artifacts.html
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Various theories floated over the intervening decades suggested Earhart may have died at the hands of the Japanese; been shot down/forced down by the japanese; been held in captivity, etc, etc.. Looks like the actual fate may be somewhat more prosaic...after you get past the whole crash-landing-in-the-Pacific thing.

[Taverner]

1. I wonder if the DHARMA Project was on the island with her

[old mark]

2. Interesting, but one correction - her plane was not called "The Electra" It WAS

a Lockheed Electra 10 E, a twin engine twin tail small 10 passenger airliner as here:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Model_10_Electra

An interesting choice for an around the world flight.

mark

Rec.

[salvorhardin]

3. Yep. The plane didn't really have a name.

It was often referred to as "The Flying Laboratory" and Earhart called it "my pet" but there doesn't seem to be any official name ala Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis".