89 years after Amelia Earhart vanished, expedition hunts for her lost plane

Earhart disappeared on July 2, 1937, while attempting to fly around the world. She and navigator Fred Noonan were travelling from Papua New Guinea toward Howland Island, a tiny Pacific atoll intended to be their next refuelling stop. Nearly nine decades after Amelia Earhart vanished somewhere over the Pacific, the search for her aircraft has entered another chapter. A 17-member team backed by Purdue University has sailed towards the remote island of Nikumaroro, following a potentially significant clue hidden in its lagoon states an online report by Reuters. The expedition hopes to determine whether an unusual object visible in aerial and satellite imagery could be part of Earhart’s missing Lockheed Electra 10-E.A mystery that began in 1937As per Reuters, Earhart disappeared on July 2, 1937, while attempting to fly around the world. She and navigator Fred Noonan were travelling from Papua New Guinea toward Howland Island, a tiny Pacific atoll intended to be their next refuelling stop, the report adds.The Electra never arrived. After the aircraft’s final communications, which indicated dwindling fuel and gave its last known position, a massive search operation failed to locate either...