A new search for the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane will launch in 2014. Earhart vanished in 1937 along with her navigator Fred Noonan. The pair were attempting to fly around the world, and were last seen in New Guinea. Since then, theories have emerged that Earhart and Noonan did not in fact die in a crash, but survived for a short time after an emergency landing on an uninhabited island.
The castaway theory has focused on Nikumaroro, once known as Gardner Island and if researchers are right, Earhart's Electra would have been washed from the shallow reefs down a plunging cliff off the coast of the island. Plans are in place to use submarines to explore an object captured photographically in 1937 by British Colonial Service officer Eric Bevington during a British colonial expedition. The Bevington Object, as it is known, was noticed in 2010. It's a tiny speck in a photograph, but researchers believe it may show the wreckage of the landing gear of Earhart's plane before it was washed down from the reef.
I think it's really neat that there is still a great deal of public interest in the mystery surrounding Amelia Earhart. I am looking forward to new discoveries made about the female pioneer in aviation!
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I've always found Earhart's story really interesting and I think it's great that researchers are planning to look for her plane again. I hope they find what they're looking for!
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