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Expedition to a Remote Pacific Island Fails to Find Fresh Clues in Hunt for Amelia Earhart’s Plane
The 17-person team will use sonar, drones and dredging to test whether the submerged object is Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Electra, researchers said.
- On Monday, Purdue University and Archaeological Legacy Institute researchers concluded the 'Taraia Object' in Nikumaroro's lagoon is likely natural debris, not Amelia Earhart's missing Lockheed Electra.
- Visible in aerial photos since 1938 and flagged in 2020 satellite imagery, the anomaly spurred the 17-person expedition to remote Kiribati to investigate theories about Earhart's disappearance.
- Using sonar and magnetometers to survey the site, researchers found no aircraft wreckage; the team recovered a 30-inch steel tube requiring further analysis, Purdue said.
- Giant coconut crabs made overnight stays on Nikumaroro impractical, forcing the team to sleep aboard their support vessel while documenting the site, expedition reports stated.
- Despite ruling out the Taraia Object, Purdue general counsel Steve Schultz maintains the castaway hypothesis remains plausible, citing historical artifacts including a woman's shoe discovered in 1940.
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Im Hwa-seop = Tracking the whereabouts of legendary female aviator Amelia Earhart (born in the U.S. in 1897), who disappeared 89 years ago while attempting a round-the-world voyage...
·Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
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In search for Amelia Earhart's plane, tantalizing clue turns out to be tree debris
US-based explorers who voyaged to a tiny South Pacific island seeking to solve conclusively the 1937 disappearance of famed aviator Amelia Earhart have determined that an object they suspected was wreckage from her plane was a cluster of washed-up trees.
·Quezon City, Philippines (the)
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Another expedition to solve Amelia Earhart mystery, another failure. This time it was some trees.
Amelia Earhart’s disappearance remains a mystery after a promising target turned out to be trees instead of the aviator’s wrecked plain. The failure echoes another high-profile search with SC connections.
·Charleston, United States
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