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Researchers 90% positive they will find Amelia Earhart’s doomed plane on remote Pacific island

Discovery would settle 88 years of debate over what happened to the long-lost legend

Reporter Jonathan Millner Pitts (Kevin Richardson/Sun Staff)
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A crowd cheers for Amelia Earhart as she boards her single-engine Lockheed Vega airplane in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, for the trip back to London on May 22, 1932. Earhart landed in Londonderry on May 21 after becoming the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean when she finished her 2,026 mile journey in under 15 hours after departing from Newfoundland. (AP Photo)
A crowd cheers for Amelia Earhart as she boards her single-engine Lockheed Vega airplane in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, for the trip back to London on May 22, 1932. Earhart landed in Londonderry on May 21 after becoming the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean when she finished her 2,026 mile journey in under 15 hours after departing from Newfoundland. (AP Photo)
"We have a lot of evidence to go on, and I believe the chances are 9 out of 10 that it's Amelia's plane, but we won't know until we go in there and take a look at it," he said.

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