An aluminum scrap first found twenty-three years ago is now believed to have likely been part of Amelia Earhart's plane. The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) thinks the Artifact 2-2-V-1 scrap, found on Nikumaroro, or Gardner Island, was used as a fill-in for a navigational window when Earhart stopped in Miami, Discovery News reported. Scroll down for video Scrap: This piece of aluminum was found on Gardner Island in 1991 and may be a piece of Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra plane Evidence: A photograph from The Miami Herald taken before Earhart went missing showed  where the aluminum piece had been installed
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An aluminum scrap  is now believed to have likely been part of Amelia Earhart's plane when she tried to circumnavigate the equator in 1937
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Researchers think the scrap was used as a fill-in for a navigational window when Earhart stopped in Miami
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They found the scrap's elements were a fit with the patch, and also fit with a Lockheed Electra undergoing restoration
It has also been suggested through sonar imagery that the fuselage is also in the water near the coast - and another @placeholder trip to Nikumaroro is planned to take place in June of next year to see if more information can be discovered, the website said.