Modern Mysteries

Expedition set to embark on new effort to solve Amelia Earhart mystery

By T.K. Randall
October 3, 2025 ·  11 comments

Image: Amelia Earhart
Credit: Library of Congress, Harris & Ewing Collection, LC-DIG-hec-40747 The story of the disappearance of famed aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator Freed Noonan needs little introduction - it has now been over 88 years since her Lockheed Model 10 Electra went down somewhere in the Pacific, prompting a mystery that endures to this day.

Now, however, the answer to exactly what happened to her may soon be uncovered, thanks to a new expedition set to depart by the end of this month for the remote Pacific island of Nikumaroro.

It is here that researchers believe Earthart may have crash-landed her plane back in 1937 and may have even survived for a time while awaiting rescue.

A tantalizing satellite photograph showing an object that looks suspiciously like part of a plane wreckage at the edge of the lagoon on Nikumaroro has long prompted speculation that this theory could indeed be correct and that the island would be the best place to search for signs of her."Finding Amelia Earhart's Electra aircraft would be the discovery of a lifetime," said expedition member Richard Pettigrew, executive director of the Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI).

"Confirming the plane wreckage there would be the smoking-gun proof."

The 15-person team will fly out on October 30th to Majuro in the Marshall Islands before setting sail by boat for Nikumaroro where they will spend over two weeks exploring and looking for clues.

Whether they will succeed in finding Earhart's plane, however, remains to be seen.

Source: Mail Online | Comments (11)

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