Amelia?

Wednesday, August 22, 2012 at 09:33 PM ET

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Key Takeaways:

The TIGHAR group's 2012 expedition in the South Pacific recovered potential debris, including a 21-inch aluminum panel, believed to be from Amelia Earhart's lost Lockheed Electra near Nikumaroro island.
Other recovered items, such as a compact and a jar, were also sent for forensic analysis to determine if they belonged to Earhart or her navigator, Fred Noonan.
The search aimed to find evidence supporting TIGHAR's theory that Earhart and Noonan landed safely on Nikumaroro (then Gardner Island) and survived there for a period.

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Patty Wagstaff is a six time member of the U.S. Aerobatic team and a three-time U.S. National Aerobatic champion. She flies for the California Department of Forestry during the summer months. In Pattyâs monthly column, Let It Roll, she shares observations and philosophical meanderings in and beyond the air show arena as a flight instructor, life adventurer and experience-seeker.