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Researchers Say They've Found A Piece Of Amelia Earhart's Lost Plane

Matthew DeBordOct 29, 2014, 22:23 IST

Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesEarhart was never found - nor was her plane.

Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart and her plane were lost over the Pacific in 1937.

Neither were ever found.

But now researchers argue that a chunk of metal discovered in 1991 belongs to Earhart's vanished Lockheed Electra.

Discovery News reports:

Discovery News notes that TIGHAR has been looking into the Earhart mystery for many years.

The piece was found on Nikumaroro, which Discovery News describes as "an uninhabited atoll in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati."

Here it is - really the middle of the vast empty ocean that is this part of the Pacific:

Screenshot via Google MapsWhere the piece was found - the middle of the Pacific Ocean.