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The Times of India
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TOI World Desk

Amelia Earhart’s 90-year disappearance mystery took a haunting turn: What scientists found after years of analysis shocked researchers

The disappearance of Amelia Earhart has been among the world’s greatest unsolved aviation mysteries for nearly 90 years. In 1937, the famous pilot vanished over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to fly around the globe. Generations of researchers have tried to uncover what really happened, while some theories even suggested that her plane crashed into the sea near Howland Island. On the other hand, some claims say they have landed on a remote Pacific island and survived for a short time. The investigators have examined bones, radio signals, eyewitness reports, and pieces of possible aircraft debris. Then a corroded metal fragment found on a distant island sparked fresh excitement. Scientists reportedly believed it might finally provide evidence linked to Earhart’s lost aircraft, leading to an unusual experiment involving a nuclear reactor.

How the Amelia Earhart disappearance mystery began over the Pacific Ocean

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