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Forget Bigfoot—Could Sonar Anomaly be Amelia Earhart’s Lost Plane?

Medicine & Technology Oct 31, 2014

It’s been an urban legend almost 80 years in the making, that famous female aviator Amelia Earhart was marooned on an island in the South Pacific. And new evidence, including a fragment of her aircraft found and a sonar anomaly 600-feet underwater, may just hold the clues to unlock this decades old mystery.

Amelia Earhart’s Lost Plane May Have Been Found in the South Pacific

Oct 30, 2014

Amelia Earhart was the first female of her kind; in fact, she set records for it. As the first female aviator to ever cross the Atlantic Ocean alone, she made the headlines of the 1920’s. And now, almost a century later, she’s still making news as the mystery of her disappearance comes more into light. After decades of searching across the Pacific Ocean, nearest the equator, researchers revealed this week that they may have found a bit of Earhart’s wreckage from the plane she disappeared in.

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Forget Bigfoot—Could Sonar Anomaly be Amelia Earhart’s Lost Plane?

Amelia Earhart’s Lost Plane May Have Been Found in the South Pacific

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