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Marina Dunbar

US researchers launch new mission to solve mystery of Amelia Earhart’s fate

Black and white picture of woman in cockpit
Amelia Earhart pictured in the cockpit of a plane in 1931. Photograph: Bettmann Archive

A new mission to locate Amelia Earhart’s long-missing plane is being launched, researchers announced on Wednesday, following fresh clues that suggest she may have crash-landed on a remote island in the South Pacific.

A satellite image may show part of Earhart’s Lockheed Electra 10E protruding from the sand on Nikumaroro, an isolated island in Kiribati about 1,000 miles from Fiji, according to Richard Pettigrew, head of the Archaeological Legacy Institute, a non-profit based in Oregon.

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