...May as well shut up shop....
Weheka:
"And of coarse this is the headline, no argument, its all done and dusted, you may as well shut up shop David !"
Aye, no kidding.... I've thought about that a few times and then say: "Nah...the evidence and the circumstance is too good.."
We've been though all the slimy frog spawn before... "the Aluminium Patch that wasn't".. "the freckle cream jar"..." the Navigator's bookcase"... the Bevingtion object"..."the Touch DNA"..."the DNA samples that were contaminated by the mastermind himself"... "the Bronze bushes that came from the Wasp engines ("What ! dismantled with coconut spanners !", my son said !) and of course the Size 10 shoe sole which when explained to him that it couldn't be Earhart's because it was too big to be a 6 1/2, he replied, using Scientific Methodology and said, "Must be Noonan's then...".
Nothing brought back from Nikumaroro can be traced to Earhart or Noonan or the Electra...
There is always a follow-on... When the Electra could not be seen by the flyover of the Naval Corsair biplanes, it was said it was hidden under a Ren tree after 'taxying-in' under the tree after landing on the reef...then later it was hidden under the 'scaveola' growth on the island, then it was pushed by AE & FN across the island to a makeshift runway, then it had sunk into the silt of the lagoon, until it was finally washed out of the lagoon and tippled over the edge of the reef.... The mind boggles....
As it was succinctly said in an earlier post...
"The Elephant in the room is that, there is no Electra at Nikumaroro..."