Is it a plane or a tree? Amelia Earhart expedition aims to solve mystery of disappearance
Summary
A team of US researchers is heading to a remote Pacific island where they believe Amelia Earhart crash-landed in 1937. They aim to examine a submerged object that might be the wreckage of her plane, hoping to solve the mystery of her disappearance during a world flight attempt.Key Facts
- Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937 while trying to fly around the world at the equator.
- The research team is investigating an object seen in satellite images in the lagoon of Nikumaroro, an uninhabited atoll in Kiribati.
- The object might be the Lockheed Model 10-E Electra plane that Earhart flew.
- The expedition is led by Richard Pettigrew and funded in part by Purdue University, where Earhart once taught.
- Some experts from the group Tighar believe the object is a fallen tree, not the plane wreckage.
- Earhart’s navigator was Fred Noonan; both vanished when their plane ran low on fuel.
- The team will arrive after a six-day sea journey and plans to explore the object for several days.
- Finding the plane wreckage would confirm a theory that Earhart and Noonan landed on Nikumaroro after running out of fuel.
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