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HAS THE MYSTERY OF AMELIA EARHART BEEN SOLVED?

I regularly have a bento lunch at the Diamond Head Lookout.   This is my view. So right next to me is this plaque, which commemorates the first solo flight from Hawaii to North American in 1935 by Amelia Earhart.  She Piloted a Lockheed Vega right over this spot on her way to Oakland.  From my posting of 9June2016: About her around the world adventure two years later in 1937 with Fred Noonan, she arrived in Lae, New Guinea:  and   I myself once had too much of an adventure here . They next headed for Howland Island, and   disappeared . There are at least   eight conspiracy theories , ranging from being kidnapped by aliens to capture by Japanese troops leading to her becoming one of the Tokyo Roses to.... Well, yesterday it was announced that Deep Sea Vision of South Carolina, using an unmanned, underwater drone, scanned more than 5200 square miles of the Pacific Ocean last year, and company founder Tony Romeo believes after leaving Papua New Guinea Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred