Search homing in on Earhart's airplane Details of upcoming
mission announced State Department lauds expedition An
expedition will launch in July to recover evidence of wreckage
believed to be that of Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Model 10
Electra, lost 75 years ago during her attempt to circumnavigate
the globe. The airplane and its occupants were never found, in
spite of a massive air and sea search that spanned 150,000
square miles of open ocean. The nonprofit The International
Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) will lead a deep-
water research team to an island in the Pacific chain of atolls
known as the Phoenix Islands. There, a University of Hawaii
vessel will conduct a detailed search and mapping of the area.
Taken three months after Earhart’s disappearance to document a
freighter that ran aground on Nikumaroro in the 1920s, experts
think it may also show the landing gear from a Lockheed Electra
sticking out of the water to the left. Click image above for
larger photo. Photo credit: TIGHAR. The ne