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Amelia Earhart’s bones have been found, and did the misunderstanding of the markings cause the loss of this pilot?

Amelia Earhart with her Lockheed E.10 (Picture 1) Kimmo Huosionmaa One of the most well known lost pilot Amelia Earhart’s (1897-1937)  bones had been found in 1940’s at some island in Pacific area. The question of this case has been actually, why Earhart was lost on why her airplane was dropped or why this woman made an emergency landing in 1937 when she tried to do the first around the world flight, what was made by the woman. This case has been kept open because the historians wanted to know, what dropped this 39 years old woman from the sky? There was nobody, who even thought that Earhart could be alive in 1937. But the thing what made this story so remarkable was, that Earhart or her map reader Noonan didn’t send any emergency call in that night.  Did the misunderstanding with the markings of this aircraft models XC-36 and E.10 cause the accident? Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) The airplane what Earhart used in that adventure was quite new. It was Lockhe...