Another possible breakthrough emerges in search for Amelia Earhart’s plane — 86 years after aviator vanished: report

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Another possible breakthrough emerges in search for Amelia Earhart’s plane — 86 years after aviator vanished: report

There are new clues in the nearly nine-decade search for Amelia Earhart’s plane, which disappeared without a trace during her ill-fated attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world in 1937.

Pictures from a 2009 expedition in the Pacific Ocean around Nikumaroro Island — a remote atoll between New Zealand and Hawaii — appear to show an engine cover buried under water that may have been part of a plane that breached the border, Saturday’s Daily Mail reported.

“There is an object in the photo that looks like a Lockheed Electra engine cover,” Ric Gillespie, executive director of the International Group for Historic Aircraft Restoration (TIGHAR), told the outlet.

Forensic imaging experts are analyzing the photo, according to Gillespie, whose group has led the Earhart Project, which has been researching the 1937 disappearance of Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan, since 1988.

Amelia Earhart, seen before taking off from Lae, New Guinea on July 2, 1937 Amelia Earhart, seen before taking off from Lae, New Guinea on July 2, 1937, en route to Howland Island. He never arrived.EPA
EarhartExperts are analyzing photos taken near a remote Pacific island that appear to show an engine cover buried underwater in the hope it could be linked to Earhart’s plane.AP

“The similarity to the engine cover and prop shaft was not noticed until years later and the exact location was not specified at the time, which meant attempts to re-locate the object were unsuccessful,” added Gillespie.

If tests reveal that the engine cover is from Earhart’s twin-engine Lockheed Model 10E Special Electra, it won’t explain why the plane crashed into the ocean — but it will dispel Gillespie’s theory that Earhart and Noonan landed and ended up dead at Nikumaroro.

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To support their position, Gillespie’s group cited the location of a transmission they believed could only have been sent by him, and a photograph taken of the coastline in 1937 that the group believed could include the Electra’s landing gear.

A year after the disaster, Britain colonized the island and newcomers reported seeing plane parts, 1930s-era glass bottles and bones by the remains of a bonfire that researchers determined may have belonged to Earhart’s built-in wife, according to National Geographic.

However, no hard evidence has ever been found to confirm that the two landed on an uninhabited atoll.

The latest “big break” development came late last year when scientists from Penn State’s Radiation Science and Engineering Center discovered never-before-seen letters on a metal plate found on the island in 1991.

sheet metalA possible clue in the case emerged last year when investigators found rivets in a metal plate found on Nikumaroro Island in the 1990s, but the artifact was later found to be the wreckage of a World War II plane.REUTERS

The panel had rivets similar to Earhart’s plane but was later determined by experts to be “not an exact match” and possibly part of the wreckage of a World War II plane that crashed several years later.

The official US position is that the plane ran out of fuel en route to Howland Island and crashed into the ocean, according to National Geographic.

Howland Island is about 400 miles from Nikumaroro Island and was designated as Earhart’s final refueling stop before she prepared to fly to California and complete her historic 29,000-mile journey.

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A large-scale expedition in the waters surrounding the islet found no evidence of his plane.

A third theory is that Earhart and Noonan landed in the Marshall Islands and were held hostage by the Japanese.

Some of these conspiracy theorists believe that they eventually returned to the US under assumed names.

Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and in 1931 set a world altitude record of 18,415 feet.

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