Amelia Earhart - New Expedition to find Plane

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"Aviation pioneer Earhart disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 during her second attempt to circumnavigate the globe by air. Dozens of theories about the nature of Earhart’s death have sprung up over the years. It remains one of the most debated unsolved mysteries in America even today."

"“We’ll use a camera-equipped underwater Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) to investigate a sonar anomaly at a depth of 600 feet that could be the fuselage of Earhart’s Lockheed Electra...”"

"“If we were continuing to excavate the castaway campsite at the southeast end of the atoll I would say that we could ‘expect’ to make further discoveries,” Gillespie said. “It’s an established archaeological site where we know a castaway died - apparently female and of Earhart’s height and ethnic origin - and where we have found artifacts that speak of an American woman of the 1930s.”"

"Last year a photo of Earhart’s plane, captured by the Miami Herald in 1937, was touted as crucial evidence regarding the famous aviator’s disappearance. The picture, snapped right before Earhart made her ill-fated second attempt to fly around the world, shows a patch of aluminum bolted onto Earhart’s plane that has been described as a key clue in solving the Earhart mystery. Gillespie is convinced he and his team discovered the same aluminum plate on Nikumaroro in 1991."

"... completed nearly 22,000 miles of their attempted circumnavigation of the globe". Damn - I did not know this. They were almost home.