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Amelia Earhart film shot before last flight in 1937 rediscovered

It was a clear spring day in 1937 when Earhart, ready to make history again by flying around the world, brought her personal photographer to a small Southern California airport to document the journey's beginning.
Al Bresnik took dozens of still photos, including a few that have likely been seen by millions. His brother John, who tagged along, made a very dark, grainy 3.5-minute home movie almost nobody saw - until now.

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Amelia Earhart Plane Fragment Identified

A fragment of Amelia Earhart's lost aircraft has been identified to a high degree of certainty for the first time ever since her plane vanished over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937, in a record attempt to fly around the world at the equator.
New research strongly suggests that a piece of aluminium aircraft debris recovered in 1991 from Nikumaroro, an uninhabited atoll in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati, does belong to Earhart's twin-engined Lockheed Electra.

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Amelia Earhart explaining her 1932 flight and the welcome she received

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Amelia Earhart Plane Wreckage Spotted in Sonar Image, Expert Suggests

A team of historical sleuths believe they have found a clue to what happened to famed aviator Amelia Earhart, claiming sonar may have picked up an image of her wrecked plane off an underwater cliff in the Pacific.
The sonar image is the right shape, size and in the right place of where some researchers believe the wreckage of Earhart's doomed flight went down in 1937.
The image, taken during an expedition on July 15, 2012 by a company contracted by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), depicts a narrow object, similar to the shape of an airplane wing, nearly 22 feet long lodged in the side of a steep underwater cliff off the coast of Nikularoro Island.

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A Search Team May Have Finally Found Amelia Earhart After 75 Years

Seventy-five years after Amelia Earhart disappeared, people are still looking for her. In fact, just last month, a search team started a search expedition only to leave without discovering Amelia's wreckage. Or so they thought. The team recently took a closer look at the underwater images they captured and now think they may have found her.
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Amelia Earhart: Expedition returns without evidence

An expedition to find out what happened to celebrated US pilot Amelia Earhart is returning to Hawaii without the evidence it was looking for.
The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (Tighar) believes Earhart and her navigator crashed on a Pacific island and died soon after.

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Fresh search for Amelia Earhart plane

An operation is set to begin off the coast of Hawaii to try to find out once and for all what happened to the American pilot Amelia Earhart.
Researchers will use an underwater robot equipped with sonar and high definition cameras to try to prove their theory that, on 2 July 1937, she crashed near a remote Pacific Island.

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Amelia Earhart's anti-freckle cream jar possibly found

A small cosmetic jar offers more circumstantial evidence that the legendary aviator, Amelia Earhart, died on an uninhabited island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati.
Found broken in five pieces, the ointment pot was collected on Nikumaroro Island by researchers of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), which has long been investigating the last, fateful flight taken by Earhart 75 years ago.

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At the age of 34, on the morning of May 20, 1932, Earhart set off from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland with the latest copy of a local newspaper (the dated copy was intended to confirm the date of the flight). 
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Amelia Earhart: New Kiribati hunt for lost Lockheed

Explorers are to begin a new push to find the remains of famed aviator Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane.
Analysts say an old photo shows part of her doomed Lockheed Electra, and a July search is set for Nikumaroro island, part of Kiribati in the Pacific.
The search will be privately funded, but the US state department helped negotiate with Kiribati.

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