Posted on 10/31/2016 8:44:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Legendary aviator Amelia Earhart was attempting to become the first female pilot to fly around the world when her plane disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.
Last month, the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) proposed the theory that she landed her plane safely on a remote island and died as a castaway.
Now, scientists say a new discovery shows a striking similarity between the pilot and the partial skeleton of a castaway found on an island of Kiribati in 1940.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Once a year for decades they do this.
She eventually made it back to the states and started selling her own line of luggage.
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