Amelia Earhart found?

Xcaliber

El Chupacabra
I'm skeptical since the entire article reads like one giant plea for funding, along with no independent analysis, but it'll be cool if it holds up:

http://news.discovery.com/history/u...pears-to-belong-to-earharts-plane-1410281.htm

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.

New research strongly suggests that a piece of aluminum aircraft debris recovered in 1991 from Nikumaroro, an uninhabited atoll in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati, does belong to Earhart’s twin-engined Lockheed Electra.

TIGHAR researchers went to Wichita Air Services in Newton, Kans., and compared the dimensions and features of the Artifact 2-2-V-1, as the metal sheet found on Nikumaroro was called, with the structural components of a Lockheed Electra being restored to airworthy condition.

The rivet pattern and other features on the 19-inch-wide by 23-inch-long Nikumaroro artifact matched the patch and lined up with the structural components of the Lockheed Electra.
 
TIGHAR is a front for a nutbar. He'd say the sky was red to get more funding to prove his, eh, let's just call it "rather far-fetched" theory.
 
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