Researchers Say Metal Fragment Came From Amelia Earhart’s Plane
- 9 years ago
Researchers are confident that a piece of aluminum found in an uninhabited Pacific atoll is part of the plane flown by Amelia Earhart on her ill-fated, round-the-world journey.
Researchers are confident that a piece of aluminum found in an uninhabited Pacific atoll is part of the plane flown by Amelia Earhart on her ill-fated, round-the-world journey.
The metal fragment was discovered in 1991, and has since undergone a series of tests and examinations.
It was finally declared with a great degree of certainty that the piece is the one used to replace a broken window on Earhart’s Lockheed Electra when she touched down in Miami.
According to the people who analyzed it, the features of the recovered section are a match to the one used in 1937 to fix the damages.
They say that characteristics such as rivet marks, materials, dimensions, and proportions combine to create a unique identifier that is not unlike a human fingerprint.
That it was found on the Nikumaroro atoll gives a great deal of weight to the theory that Earhart and her navigator didn’t crash into the ocean, but rather made an emergency landing on the coral reef.
If that is the case, it means that she and her companion could very well have lived out their lives as castaways.
Researchers are confident that a piece of aluminum found in an uninhabited Pacific atoll is part of the plane flown by Amelia Earhart on her ill-fated, round-the-world journey.
The metal fragment was discovered in 1991, and has since undergone a series of tests and examinations.
It was finally declared with a great degree of certainty that the piece is the one used to replace a broken window on Earhart’s Lockheed Electra when she touched down in Miami.
According to the people who analyzed it, the features of the recovered section are a match to the one used in 1937 to fix the damages.
They say that characteristics such as rivet marks, materials, dimensions, and proportions combine to create a unique identifier that is not unlike a human fingerprint.
That it was found on the Nikumaroro atoll gives a great deal of weight to the theory that Earhart and her navigator didn’t crash into the ocean, but rather made an emergency landing on the coral reef.
If that is the case, it means that she and her companion could very well have lived out their lives as castaways.