Amelia Earhart Search Expedition
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- Kerry BreenCBS News
- Aleks PhillipsBBC
- Steve GormanSydney Morning Herald
- TOI World DeskTimes of India
- Andrea MargolisFox News
- Lana ZakCBS News
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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.
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Earhart disappeared on July 2, 1937, while attempting to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the globe by air.
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.
"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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- 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.
- 12 Oct
“Finding Amelia Earhart's Electra aircraft would be the discovery of a lifetime,” Pettigrew said in materials released for the expedition.
- 13 Oct
Purdue University in Indiana announced Monday that the 17-person Taraia Object expedition team arrived at Nikumaroro Island after a five-day journey across the Pacific Ocean.
Coverage 12 articles
15 Oct Giant meat-eating crabs with crushing grip complicate Amelia Earhart expedition on remote island
Fox News
15 Oct Amelia Earhart vanished in 1937; a theory suggests crabs consumed her remains as a castaway
Times of India
15 Oct Mystery of Amelia Earhart's plane could be solved in days
CBS News
15 Oct Inside the search for Amelia Earhart, who vanished in 1937
CBS News
14 Oct New search for Amelia Earhart's missing plane
CBS News
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
10 Oct Expedition hopes to find aviator Amelia Earhart's plane on remote island
BBC
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