Amelia Earhart Mystery Investigation
A team of marine archaeologists is heading to a remote Pacific island to investigate an object that could provide new clues to the disappearance of aviator Amelia Earhart in 1937.Reported by 5 of 6 outlets; wording from Times of India.
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Earhart disappeared on July 2, 1937, while attempting to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the globe by air.
"Finding Amelia Earhart's Electra aircraft would be the discovery of a lifetime," Richard Pettigrew, head of the ALI and the expedition lead, said.
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Purdue has a historical connection to Earhart, who worked at the university as a career counsellor for women and an adviser to its aeronautics department.
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- 6 Oct
, has been visible in photos dating back to 1938, the year after Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during Earhart's attempt to become the first female pilot to circle the world.
- 10 Oct
Earhart had already successfully flown from California across South America, Africa and Asia in her Electra twin-engine plane when she arrived in Lae, Papua New Guinea on 2 July 1937.
- 11 Oct
A US-based team of marine archaeologists has set sail for a tiny island in the far western Pacific, seeking to examine the latest tantalising clue to one of the 20th century’s great unsolved mysteries: the 1937 disappearance of famed aviator, Amelia Earhart.
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- 12 Oct
“Finding Amelia Earhart's Electra aircraft would be the discovery of a lifetime,” Pettigrew said in materials released for the expedition.
Coverage 7 articles
13 Oct Team Arrives at Remote Island in Search of Amelia Earhart’s Plane
NBC News
13 Oct Amelia Earhart mystery enters critical phase as explorers zero in on mysterious object
Fox News
12 Oct Amelia Earhart mystery: Team heads to remote Pacific island to investigate possible plane wreckage
Times of India11 Oct Amelia Earhart expedition heads to Pacific atoll hoping to find her plane
Sydney Morning Herald
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