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<p>TIGHAR Team Physician Dr. Jon Overholt screening excavated material for bones at the dig site on the uninhabited island of Nikumaroro, in the South Pacific on Friday where researchers say they found bone fragments that could help prove that famed aviator Amelia Earhart died as a castaway after failing in her quest to circumnavigate the globe.</p>

<p>TIGHAR Team Physician Dr. Jon Overholt screening excavated material for bones at the dig site on the uninhabited island of Nikumaroro, in the South Pacific on Friday where researchers say they found bone fragments that could help prove that famed aviator Amelia Earhart died as a castaway after failing in her quest to circumnavigate the globe.</p>

December 18, 2010

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Lab scans bones that may belong to Amelia Earhart
December 18, 2010 8 p.m.

Lab scans bones that may belong to Amelia Earhart

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NORMAN, Okla. - Three bone fragments found on a deserted South Pacific island are being analyzed to determine if they belong to Amelia Earhart - tests that could finally prove she died as a castaway after failing in her 1937 quest to become the first woman to fly around the world.