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Mystery of Amelia Earhart's plane could be solved in days

A group of American researchers believes it may be days away from finding what remains of the missing plane of legendary aviator Amelia Earhart off a remote island in the South Pacific.

An expedition team led by Steve Schultz from Purdue University and Richard Pettigrew from the Archaeological Legacy Institute on Wednesday began the painstaking search for what could be Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10-E plane.

"We're looking at the land, we're looking for artifacts that might relate to Amelia Earhart," Pettigrew told CBS News on Wednesday.

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