Scientists Claim Breakthrough In Amelia Earhart Mystery After 88 Years
Breakthrough in Amelia Earhart Mystery After 88 Years
Nearly 88 years after her disappearance, new evidence may finally reveal what happened to pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart. She vanished in 1937 during an ambitious flight around the world with navigator Fred Noonan.
Their last known location was near Howland Island in the Pacific, but they never arrived, sparking one of history’s greatest aviation mysteries. Recent satellite images taken in 2015 show a plane-shaped object near Nikumaroro Island (part of Kiribati), almost 1,000 miles from Fiji.
This island has long been linked to Earhart, and now experts believe they’ve found her Lockheed Electra…