| Title | Another Ameleia Earhart Clue | |
| Date | Thursday October 30 2014, @01:44PM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the where-in-the-world-is... dept. | ||
Newsweek is reporting that a scrap of aluminum found on Nikumaroro, an atoll in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati is looking more and more like an artifact from Ameleia Earhart's Lockheed Electra.
The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) recovered in 1991 what has been identified as a Patch, to replace a non-standard window in Earhart's plane
The window was installed for unknown reasons prior to the attempted around the world flight. But for equally unexplained reasons, the window was removed and the patch installed just before departing Miami, FL.
The TIGHAR group has released their detailed analysis of the patch, using a sister-ship of Earhart's plane. Their report is published on line yesterday (October 28, 2014), showing that the rivet holes in this aluminum fragment match uniquely the structure of the Electra.
Not just ANY Electra. Because Earhart's Electra had a non-standard sized window installed which required structural modification, and this patch replaced that unique airframe part, the researchers are very confident that this patch came from Earhart's plane, and wouldn't fit any other plane.
There is a related article at the Miami Herald which contains a picture of the plane with the patch in place.
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