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Group: Similarity between Amelia Earhart, 1940 skeleton
Published November 02, 2016
FILE - In this June 6, 1937, file photo, Amelia Earhart, the American airwoman who is flying round the world for fun, arrived at Port Natal, Brazil, and took off on her 2,240-mile flight across the South Atlantic to Dakar, Africa. A group investigating the mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart announced on Oct. 22, 2016, that it has uncovered another connection between the pioneering female pilot and a body found 76 years ago on a remote Pacific island. (AP Photo, File) (The Associated Press)
A group investigating the mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart says it's uncovered another similarity between the pioneering pilot and a body found 76 years ago on a remote Pacific island.
But The International Group for Historic Aircraft Discovery says its finding doesn't prove the body is Earhart's.
The group says a forensic analysis of a photo of Earhart shows a match between the size of her bones and those of the skeleton found in 1940 on Gardner Island in Kirbati. A 1998 analysis found a general similarity between the bones and a female of Earhart's type.
Some critics insist the Pennsylvania-based group hasn't found anything tied to Earhart.
Earhart's plane vanished over the Pacific while she was attempting to fly around the world in 1937.
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