[Discovery News] Metal Fragment Found In 1991 Might Be A Piece Of Amelia Earhart's Plane - Polidicks

The source from Discovery News is 2 days old and other sources are just starting to report it today so I'll use DN instead. [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32814946/1.earhart-find-141028-aluminium-sheet.jpg[/IMG] [quote=Discovery News] A fragment of Amelia Earhart's lost aircraft has been identified to a high degree of certainty for the first time ever since her plane vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937, in a record attempt to fly around the world at the equator. [/quote] [quote=CNN] 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. "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." "Several months after the 2012 expedition a member of TIGHAR's online Amelia Earhart Search Forum spotted an unusual feature in the sonar imagery," the group says. Six hundred feet below the waves, at the base of a cliff, the group detected an "anomaly in the underwater topography." "Is the anomaly the aircraft?" the group asks. "The only way to know is to go look." And in June of 2015 the groups says it will spend 24 days doing just that. [/quote] [URL="http://news.discovery.com/history/us-history/sonar-may-reveal-earharts-plane-photos-130529.htm"] Discovery News[/URL] [url=http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/30/us/amelia-earhart-mystery/]CNN[/url] This got me excited. I've been a 'fanboy' of Amelia ever since I was a little kid.

Same page as plane also has [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/7ZX9LKJ.png?1[/IMG] Take with an ocean of salt.

[QUOTE=valkery;46365261] Take with an ocean of salt.[/QUOTE] Hence the [Discovery News] tag. But other websites are starting to pick up on it and I'll update once a major news source releases one.

I bet Aliens had something to do with this.

I'm pretty sure it could be part of any plane crash that happened in the 70+ years its been since her disappearance.

impossible, it's well known that she and her plane are in the delta quadrant.

[QUOTE=duckmaster;46365352]I'm pretty sure it could be part of any plane crash that happened in the 70+ years its been since her disappearance.[/QUOTE] Not to mention the thousands of crashes that occurred during ww2, the pacific is littered with wrecks

If you read the article, it says that the piece recovered is an exact match with a unique piece of metal that was used as an in the field repair on her plane; not found on any other plane.

Noice. I'd love it if they found the engines as well. Those are too heavy to be washed/blown away, not all that practical in a survival situation, tend to survive quite well. Would tell us a lot about the actual landing/crash, not to mention remove any shred or sliver of doubt left if they still had legible serial numbers on them. Also, I wouldn't mind restoring one to working order and running it.

Seems to be in really good condition for a piece of metal sitting on a Pacific island for the better part of a century. Still, quite neat if true.

aluminum doesn't rust due to the fact that it oxidizes nearly instantly, which creates a protective barrier on its surface.

Updated the op with source from CNN.

Can't wait for them to find her hotdog costume