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From the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?
By Jeff Karoub, Associated Press

DETROIT - An apple farmer and his family believe they've found a life ring from the Edmund Fitzgerald on a Lake Superior beach, roughly 200 miles west of where the famed ship sank 32 years ago.

The orange preserver is worn by the elements and has been chewed on by small animals. But it reads "Edmund Fitzgerald" in faded but mostly legible white letters.

No definitive tests had yet been conducted to prove it's from the ore carrier that sank in a vicious storm on Nov. 10, 1975, killing 29 men off the northeastern shore of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. But the director of a shipwreck museum says it matches in many ways another ring in its Fitzgerald collection.

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"How Can That Be?"

"I was coming out with the laundry basket to hang my laundry, and I noticed ... a large, large piece of metal in my yard,'' Judy St. Clair told WISC-TV in Madison. "I thought, 'Oh, my goodness. That looks like an airplane wing.' But I thought, 'How can that be?'''

The 2-foot-long chunk of metal tore through the branches of the ash tree in her backyard. St. Clair said she turned it over to McFarland authorities, who alerted the Federal Aviation Administration.

WISC-TV confirmed with Northwest Airlines that after Flight 1449 from Detroit landed in Madison at 9:21 a.m. Wednesday, an inspection revealed a missing flap.