Robert Ballard and his crew have been exploring the waters off the tiny atoll of Nikumaroro in the South Pacific, where some believe Earhart and her navigator landed.
in 1986 is now leading an expedition to locate the plane of legendary aviator Amelia Earhart, who disappeared in mysterious circumstances during her 1937 attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world.
"There are various theories about where Amelia's plane landed, and some of them are a little wild," Ballard toldThere are several candidates for where Earhart and her navigator landed, including the Marshall Islands, Saipan and even New Jersey. Meanwhile, other theories suggest that their specially adapted Lockheed Electra 10E plane crashed and sank.
Researchers from the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery —who have been investigating this hypothesis for many years—say Earhart's last confirmed radio transmissions, which indicated the plane's direction of travel, point towards this scenario. TIGHAR researchers have conducted multiple investigations of the island over the years but have left empty-handed. However, Ballard's ship may have a better shot at finding something given that it is equipped with state-of-the-art technology, including an array of underwater sensors, two remotely-operated vehicles with onboard cameras, an autonomous surface vehicle and several drones.
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