New search to solve Amelia Earhart mystery 
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Oceanographer Robert Ballard, famous for discovering the wrecks of the Titanic and Bismarck, is conducting a new search in the Pacific Ocean for missing aviator Amelia Earhart’s plane
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Lockheed Model 10-E Electra
RECORD ATTEMPT
Amelia Earhart (right) was U.S. aviation pioneer who tried to make first circumnavigational flight around globe
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COMPELLING NEW EVIDENCE
Oct 1937: Eric Bevington, aboard British Royal Colony Ship Nimanoa, photographs Norwich City shipwreck off Gardner Island

2010: Imaging expert notices small object protruding from sea during routine review of historical photos

2011: Three photo analysts concur object fits shape of Lockheed Electra landing gear

2017: 3D model of landing gear
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Start
May 20, 1937 Departs Oakland, California
Jun 1 Miami
Jun 10 Dakar, Senegal
Jun 17 Karachi, Pakistan
Jun 29 Darwin, Australia
Hawaii, U.S.
Map detail
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1,000km 600 miles
Lae, Papua New Guinea
Solomon Islands
Planned route
Howland Island, U.S.
Pacific Ocean 
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Nikumaroro (formerly Gardner Island)
3km 2 miles
Bevington object
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Jul 2: Earhart and Fred Noonan (her navigator) disappear after departing Papua New Guinea

Reported line of flight (157 SE 337 NW) identified in Earhart’s last radio message
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SEARCH
Robert Ballard (right) thinks evidence gathered by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) shows Earhart landed on uninhabited Gardner Island
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1940: Human remains found on Gardner Island
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1941: Bone measurements lead researcher to conclude that remains belong to man. Bones later lost
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1998: Bone measurements reinterpreted by two scientists as coming from woman of European descent
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2018: New analysis uses photos and Earhart’s clothing size to determine that bones match her physical proportions
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Sources: National Geographic, TIGHAR, New York Times, Ocean Exploration Trust, BBC
Pictures: Creative Commons, Getty Images, Google Earth, Bevington images © TIGHAR 2019. Used by permission. All rights reserved © GRAPHIC NEWS

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