An expedition crew has reached the remote island in the South Pacific where they believe Amelia Earhart’s lost plane may have landed when the famed female pilot disappeared nearly 90 years ago.
\n\nA group of researchers with the Archaeological Legacy Institute and Purdue University arrived Tuesday at the island of Nikumaroro, the university announced in a press release. The crew will then hike their way towards a lagoon where an anomaly was spotted on satellite images.
\n\nEarhart mysteriously vanished in the summer of 1937 while flying around the world, hoping to be the first woman to accomplish such a feat. But on the morning of July 2, 1937, the U.S. Coast Guard ship lost contact with Earhart and her navigator as they attempted to fly to Howland Island.
\n\nThe last transmissions from the two-person crew was Earhart reporting unexpected cloudy weather before she told the Coast Guard crew that she could not find them and that they were running out of a fuel.
\n\nShe and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were never heard from again.
\n\nIt’s believed that Earhart crashed landed but a weekslong search from the U.S. government at the time found no trace of the plane. Nearly a century…
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