Research crew searching for Amelia Earhart plane arrives on remote island in South Pacific
An expedition has reached a remote island in the South Pacific where it believes Amelia Earhart’s lost plane may have landed when the famed female pilot disappeared nearly 90 years ago.
A group of researchers with the Archaeological Legacy Institute and Purdue University arrived Tuesday at the island of Nikumaroro, the university announced in a press release. The crewmembers will then hike their way toward a lagoon where an anomaly was spotted on satellite images.
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