It IS Amelia’s skeleton
Bones found in the Pacific ‘belong to missing aviator’
BONES found on a remote Pacific island are most likely those of the lost pilot Amelia Earhart, a new forensic study has revealed.
The only documented person to whom the bones may belong is Amelia Earhart PROF RICHARD L JANTZ ON REMAINS FOUND ON PACIFIC ISLAND
The aviator disappeared over the Pacific in 1937 while attempting to become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe by air. She had become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932.
Now, forensic expert Richard L Jantz, of the University of Tennessee, has concluded that bones found on Nikumaroro island in 1940 – along with part of a woman’s shoe and a navigation instrument – are Earhart’s. An examination at the time concluded that they were a man’s remains.
The bones are now lost but Prof Jantz used the measure- ments taken in the initial study and compared them to details about Earhart’s body type.
Prof Jantz said: “The only documented person to whom they may belong is Earhart.”
When she went missing, Earhart, 39 – flying with navigator Fred Noonan – was trying to reach Hawaii.
Numerous conspiracy theories exist about her disappearance but it is thought the pair died when their plane crashed close to Howland Island in the central Pacific. The plane was never found and Earhart was legally declared dead in 1939.
Last year, a photo found in a “top-secret” file in the US National Archives reignited speculation that Earhart and Noonan were captured by the Japanese after crash-landing.