Amelia Earhart

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Purdue Team Will Soon Search for Earhart's Plane
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Amelia Earhart's Plane
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Jul 6, 2025 4:00 PM CDT

It's a Fresh Search for Amelia Earhart's Plane

Satellite image sparks November search on Nikumaroro Island

(Newser) - A new push is underway to solve one of aviation's longest-standing mysteries: the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. Researchers announced a November expedition to the Pacific island of Nikumaroro, spurred by a 2015 satellite image that some believe shows the remains of Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E. The effort...

Disappointment in Search for Amelia Earhart's Plane

Sonar image thought to have revealed crash site turns out to be rock formation

(Newser) - Earlier this year, the CEO of ocean exploration company Deep Sea Vision was convinced that he had found Amelia Earhart's plane . But after closer inspection, the aviation pioneer's 1937 disappearance remains a mystery. The company says an expedition that deployed an underwater drone determined that a sonar image...

Hunt for Amelia Earhart's Plane Yields Intriguing Clue
Hunt for Amelia Earhart's Plane
Yields Intriguing Clue
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Feb 3, 2024 6:30 AM CST

Hunt for Amelia Earhart's Plane Yields Intriguing Clue

Explorer locates a plane-shaped blob on ocean's bottom

(Newser) - Plenty of theories have come and gone about where Amelia Earhart's plane crashed, but a new one seems to have more credibility than most. A former US Air Force intelligence officer is pretty sure he's found Earhart's Lockheed 10-E Electra on the floor of the ocean, reports...

Amelia Earhart's Plane? Experts Say Not So Fast

87-year-old debate continues over where the lost aviator may have ended up

(Newser) - Tony Romeo, chief executive of Deep Sea Vision, believes he's found Amelia Earhart's airplane during a search of 5,200 square miles of ocean floor. Other experts who've viewed the sonar image showing what Romeo is certain is a Lockheed 10-E Electra with two distinctive fin stabilizers...

Amid 100 Statues at Capitol, She's the 11th Woman

Statue of Kansas-born aviator Amelia Earhart unveiled at US Capitol's Statuary Hall

(Newser) - A statue of Amelia Earhart—the famed aviator who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932—was unveiled at the US Capitol on Wednesday, where it will serve as "an inspiration for all," said Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly. The 7-foot-tall bronze statue is...

Amelia Earhart's Long-Lost Helmet Fetches Huge Price

Bidder shells out $825K

(Newser) - Update: How much would you pay for a leather helmet worn by Amelia Earhart? An anonymous bidder decided $825,000 was the perfect price at an online auction, reports the AP . That's way higher than expected: It was thought the helmet might fetch $80,000 or perhaps low six...

Metal Panel Found in 1991 Could Hold Earhart Clues

It'll be tested using a nuclear reactor

(Newser) - The quest to discover what happened to Amelia Earhart has turned to ... a nuclear reactor. Popular Mechanics reports scientists at Penn State University are focusing not on Earhart herself but her plane, a Lockheed Model 10-E Electra. In 1991, longtime Earhart searcher Ric Gillespie found an aluminum panel on the...

Latest Earhart Hunt May Have Voided One Longstanding 'Clue'

The 'Bevington image' may not actually show landing gear, Robert Ballard's expedition finds

(Newser) - The latest hunt for Amelia Earhart's vanished plane came up empty—but that doesn't mean Robert Ballard's expedition turned up no important information. Ballard, the ocean explorer who famously found the Titanic, was intrigued enough by the so-called "Bevington image" that he decided to take on...

'I Want to Show You a Picture': How New Earhart Hunt Began

Robert Ballard thinks an old image captured landing gear from her plane

(Newser) - Robert Ballard, the explorer who found the Titanic , is currently on a mission to find the remains of Amelia Earhart's plane. In an interview with the New York Times , Ballard explains how he got hooked on the Earhart search, and it began several years ago when an old friend...

Man Who Found the Titanic Now on Track of a New Mystery

Robert Ballard will search near Nikumaroro

(Newser) - One of the world's greatest undersea explorers is gearing up to tackle one of the world's most enduring mysteries. Robert Ballard, the University of Rhode Island professor of oceanography best known for finding the wreck of the Titanic in 1985, is planning to search for signs of Amelia...

Researchers Say Distress Calls Prove Theory on Earhart
Researchers Say Distress Calls
Prove Theory on Earhart
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Jul 29, 2018 3:15 PM CDT

Researchers Say Distress Calls Prove Theory on Earhart

Group says they show she and her navigator were alive after plane went down

(Newser) - People all around the world reported hearing radio distress calls from Amelia Earhart in July 1937, and many of them were dismissed as hoaxes. But a research group has just published a comprehensive study of all distress calls in the days after Earhart disappeared and concludes that 57 of them...

We've Probably Had Earhart's Bones This Whole Time: Study

New forensic analysis says doctor got it wrong in 1940

(Newser) - "Until definitive evidence is presented that the remains are not those of Amelia Earhart, the most convincing argument is that they are hers." That's the bold conclusion of a new study published in Forensic Anthropology that seeks to end the mystery surrounding the fate of the...

Man Says Uncle's Tale Sheds Light on Earhart's Bleak Fate

New evidence for theory Earhart was executed at prison on Saipan

(Newser) - Was Amelia Earhart held and executed at a prison on Saipan after her plane crashed in the South Pacific during her 1937 trip around the world? The Pacific Daily News reports a man's recollections of a conversation with his uncle lend credence to the theory recently put forward by...

Blogger Might've Crushed Amelia Earhart Theory

Says newly surfaced photo was published before Earhart vanished

(Newser) - Even when a History documentary claimed a photo showed that Amelia Earhart had survived a 1937 plane crash in the Marshall Islands and was taken prisoner, Kota Yamano didn't buy it. "I have never believed the theory that Earhart was captured by the Japanese military, so I decided...

Amelia Earhart Search Dogs 'Alerted' to Scent

Archaeologists find nothing, but soil samples to be analyzed

(Newser) - Amelia Earhart buffs will likely to be tuning in to the History Channel at 9pm Eastern Sunday for a documentary that floats a provocative theory : Investigators say a newly surfaced photo shows Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan on a dock on one of the Marshall Islands, suggesting that they were...

Earhart Experts Cast Doubt on New Photo

Her plane didn't have enough fuel to reach Marshall Islands, says one

(Newser) - Any clue about the disappearance of Amelia Earhart should thrill Ric Gillespie, who's spent nearly three decades trying to solve the 80-year-old case. But a lost photograph included in a History documentary, which purportedly shows that Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan survived a 1937 plane crash in the Marshall...

Earhart Investigators: This Photo Proves She Survived

Documentary suggests National Archives image shows her and Fred Noonan

(Newser) - A new History documentary floats one of the most provocative theories yet about Amelia Earhart: The show focuses on a newly surfaced photo that some think proves she and navigator Fred Noonan survived their 1937 plane crash. Investigators with the documentary say the image shows Earhart sitting on a dock...

New Earhart Search 'Less a Shot in Dark' Than Any Before

This one will involve forensic dogs searching for her remains

(Newser) - Thirteen human bones discovered on a Pacific island three years after Amelia Earhart disappeared were subsequently lost. But that leaves 193 bones still to be found, as an archaeologist puts it. In its latest mission in its three decades of searching for Earhart, the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery...

Amelia Earhart May Have Been Found—76 Years Ago

Photo of Earhart matches skeleton found in 1940: TIGHAR

(Newser) - For 79 years, people have been searching for Amelia Earhart. But for 76 years, the mystery of her disappearance might have been solved. The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery says Earhart's bones were perhaps found on the island of Nikumaroro in Kiribati in 1940, three years after her...

Amelia Earhart's Plane Found … in Old Romantic Comedy

It flew under the radar of Earhart experts for 80 years

(Newser) - The plane Amelia Earhart was flying when she disappeared over the Pacific has been discovered … in a 1936 Clark Gable film. Discovery News reports that researchers with the International Group of Historic Aircraft Recovery spotted Earhart's Lockheed Electra—given away by the registration number on its wing—in...

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