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Re:Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Dis... by crispytx on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @08:04PM (#14707210)
I'm pretty sure researchers have already found the little island next to which she landed. It appears that she and Fred Noonan died as castaways on the island of Nikumaroro. Bones were found on the island several years later, but have since been lost to history. One researcher even found a piece of aluminum on the island that they believe was used to patch a broken window on her plane.
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Re:Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Dis... by jbeales on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @10:32PM (#14707769)
That's the competing theory.

Apparently there are two camps of Earhart searchers: Those who believe she crashed in the Marshal Islands and died as a POW, and those who believe she crashed on Nikumaroro and died as a castaway. The Nikumaroro folks[1] mount an expedition & issue press releases every year or so, now it seems like it's time for the team Solomon Islands to take the spotlight for a moment.

[1]http://tighar.org/

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Re:Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Dis... by larryfreeman on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @08:54PM (#14707405)
According to Wikipedia, in the 2007 expedition that found the bones, tests were done to check but the tests were inconclusive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart#Speculation_on_...
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Re:Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Dis... by crispytx on Thursday July 06, 2017 @07:40AM (#14709593)
I was actually referring to bones that were found in the early 1940's and lost around the same time. I think we might be talking about a different set of bones.
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