In July of 1937,?Amelia Earhart ? one of the most famous pilots of all time and the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic ? vanished during an attempt to fly around the globe. There is no shortage of mystery surrounding the events that led to her disappearance, and as we approach the 75th anniversary of her?flight attempt, researchers are set to begin yet another investigation into exactly what happened.
Using technology that couldn't even have been conceived in the 1930s,?The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) will search deep in the Pacific Ocean for pieces of Earhart's plane, the Electra. The expedition will focus on a small slice of the Pacific near where the last transmission from Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, is thought to have originated.
While the most accepted theory of the past 75 years has been that the Electra crashed, killing both passengers, evidence is beginning to pile up that suggests Earhart may have made an emergency landing in the ocean and survived. Nikumaroro Island, near Earhart's destination of Howland Island, is said to?hold evidence of a female castaway who survived there for several weeks or more around the time of the suspected crash.
With new evidence, equipment, and many decades worth of theories to go on, perhaps the team can finally write the last chapter of one of?history's greatest mysteries.
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