aussie027 Not a likely story that.
Read it a few times and think more likely to be a WW2 fighter from the states with similar rego which had crashed.
She most likely made it to Howland Island and crashed at sea or landed on a Island.
There is a group
TIGHAR that have a theory about an Island on the 157 radial that she last reported to be flying along. More likely theory.
Interesting read