Amelia Earhart researchers leave remote atoll empty-handed after ‘plane debris’ found to be a clump of trees
- A US expedition that voyaged to a remote Pacific island in the hope of solving the mystery of what happened to pioneering pilot Amelia Earhart has said an object they suspected to be her plane was a clump of washed-up trees.
- “Unfortunately, we weren’t able to find that smoking gun,” said Steve Schultz of Purdue University, standing on the sand in front of a blue lagoon on the atoll of Nikumaroro, about halfway between Australia and Hawaii.
- Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan vanished in 1937 during their attempt to circumnavigate the globe at the equator, leading to one of the largest air and
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- A US expedition that voyaged to a remote Pacific island in the hope of solving the mystery of what happened to pioneering pilot Amelia Earhart has said an object they suspected to be her plane was a clump of washed-up trees.
- “Unfortunately, we weren’t able to find that smoking gun,” said Steve Schultz of Purdue University, standing on the sand in front of a blue lagoon on the atoll of Nikumaroro, about halfway between Australia and Hawaii.
- Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan vanished in 1937 during their attempt to circumnavigate the globe at the equator, leading to one of the largest air and
Sources: Guardian