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Graphic shows Earhart’s route around the world, with details of new evidence which Ballard is basing his search upon.
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AVIATION

Titanic finder in new search for Amelia Earhart

By Ninian Carter

August 15, 2019 - 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.

The mysterious disappearance of Amelia Earhart has captured our imaginations ever since she, and her navigator Fred Noonan, vanished without trace in 1937, while attempting to make the first circumnavigational flight around the world.

A new expedition led by oceanographer Robert Ballard, famous for discovering the wrecks of the Titanic and Bismarck, is attempting to locate the remains of her plane, believed to be just off Nikumaroro, a tiny atoll in the Pacific Ocean.

Evidence to this, for which Ballard is basing his search, comes from 30 years of research by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR). Included in their findings is the recent discovery of a 1937 photograph they believe shows the broken landing gear from Earhart’s plane, poking out from a shallow reef surrounding Nikumaroro.

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PUBLISHED: 16/08/2019; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Creative Commons, Getty Images and TIGHAR
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