Amelia Earhart: Island bones 'likely' belonged to famed pilot

According to peer-reviewed scientific journals in the United States, the bone found in the Pacific Islands in 1940 became the bone of the famous pilot Amelia Earhart "probably".

Elhart, her plane, and her pilot disappeared in the Pacific in 1937. Many theories are trying to explain her disappearance

However, according to a new study published in forensic anthropology, these bones proved that she died on the island and was abandoned.

This study, known as Amelia Earhart and Nikumarolo Bones, was first announced by the University of Florida and was chaired by Professor Richard Junds of the University of Tennessee.

As researchers decided in 1941, it questioned ruins found in Nikmaro Lolo in the East Pacific in about 1,800 miles (2,900 km) southwest of Hawaii.

As everyone knows, Elhart left the island when he is destined to disappear in the process of flying around the world.

In 1940, British political parties investigated the island's settlement and discovered the naval tools used by human skulls, women's shoes, navigator Fred Nunan (he disappeared), and a bottle of herb liqueur. Wine Club - "Elhart knows what to carry"

"At that time, the bones were suspected to be ruins of Amelia Earhart," Dr. Jantz wrote in this study.

The party found 13 bones and was sent to Fiji for analysis by Dr. D W Hoodless. He believed that bones belong to men.

But Dr. Jantz believes that Dr. Hoodless may have reached the wrong conclusion, as forensic orthopedics - bone research - are still in its early stages.

Ask Dr. Foodless about bone measurements: Dr. Jantz compared them with Earhart 's height and height using a modern computer program Fordisc, which is now widely used by forensic anthropologists.

However, the research team used historical pictures with her pilot and driver's license to judge that her figure is consistent with her bones.

Also consulted with "historical tailor" including "length of Earhart pants and waist circumference".

"This analysis shows that Earhart is closer to Nikumaroro's bone than 99% of the larger reference sample," the report says.

As Elhart said, the research discovered that the widow is a woman above the average of European family lines

Dr. Jantz wrote to the paper: "Until there is solid evidence that the will is not Amelia Earhart's will", "The most convincing argument is that they are her will" .

Elhart was the first woman who flew across the Atlantic Ocean and was regarded as one of the most famous women in the world when her mystery of disappearance began.

She is still a pioneer of empowerment of women and recently was chosen as Barbie by Mattel.

The new scientific research argues that the bone found in Nikumaroro of the Pacific island in 1940 belonged to Elhart, in spite of the forensic analysis of the ruins of 1941, which combined the bones with men. The bone "Amelia Earhart and Nikumaroro Bones" reexamined in the study by Professor Richard L. Jantz of the University of Tennessee was abandoned. For several decades, some people had speculated that El Hart died on the island after the plane crashed, so they remained a mystery. According to the survey, after the team encountered the human skull, the British expedition team found bones after exploring to solve the islands. The expedition staff ordered a more thorough search of the area and found some other bones and shoes that looked like women. I also found a box for Brandis Navy Surveying Sextant built around 1918 and a bottle of Benedictine from herb liqueur.

Scientists say that partially abandoned skeletons found on Nikmaarolo Island in the Pacific Island island in the 1940s have some similarities with Amelia Earhart. They say that bones have not been found in extensive research but scientists have discovered bone measurements records by British doctors in 1941. The measured values ​​match

Jantz compared the bone length of the island with Earhart. Use the pictures with retractable objects to determine the size of her tibia and fibula. In order to find the length of her cheekbones, a well-established tailor measured her clothes at the George Palmer Putnam Collection of Purdue's Amelia Year Heart Papers. Jantz also thought that the bones of Nikumaroro may belong to one of the eleven people killed near the island in the 1929 wreck of the British, or may be a bone of the Pacific Islander. However, there is no document supporting these theories. The women's shoes and the boxes of the American sextant do not seem to come from the relics of survivors of the shipwreck.