Professor believes bones found on Pacific island belong to Amelia Earhart

An 80-year mystery surrounding the disappearance of Amelia Earhart could now be solved. A professor thinks he finally discovered what happened to the pioneering pilot who vanished back in 1937. ABC's David Wright has the story. Amelia Earhart and the Nicomororo bones. A dry academic paper with a bombshell headline. I am 99% sure that these bones belonged to Amelia Earhart. Amelia Earhart was an aviation pioneer. Setting out on the most dangerous aeronautic feat ever attempted. First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Through the years, I've been very fortunate in the type of flying I've done not to have more mishaps. But in 1937, her Lockheed Electra disappeared without a trace. Some believe she crashed into the Pacific somewhere in the vicinity of New Guinea. Others, including the History Channel, have investigated the theory that she and her navigator somehow managed to land on the Marshall Islands, only to be captured by the Japanese military on the eve of World War II. You think this is Amelia Earhart? That's right. But Professor Richard Jantz doesn't buy that. The Rosetta Stone that broke it open was our ability to actually measure Amelia Earhart's bones from photographs and from her trousers. He measured her bones against the records of 13 human bones that turned up on the remote atoll of Nicomororo, also known as Gardner Island, a few years after her disappearance. It's a mystery. It was an opportunity for me to go in and test a hypothesis. And I was prepared when I went into it to accept the idea that it was not her. Wow. I also found on the island, according to the professor, were part of a woman's shoe, a surveying kit similar to the one used by Earhart's co-pilot, and a benedictine bottle. He says it is something Earhart was known to carry. Certainly interesting.