75th anniversary of missing aviatrix AMELIA EARHART’s South Pacific disappearance as new search employs deep sea robots armed with cameras.
for her doomed plane that vanished without a trace on July 2, 1937 over the South Pacific.
The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery is search for Amelia’s doomed aircraft, a Lockheed Electra, that vanished July 2, 1937, on the island of Nikumaroro, where they believe Earhart crashed.
Earhart was attempting to circle the Earth with crew member Fred Noonan when they lost radio contact and were never heard from again.
The latest $2 million expedition will search the underwater reef slope off the west end of Nikumaroro, formerly Gardner Island, an uninhabited coral atoll in the Pacific, looking for signs of wreckage from Earhart’s Lockheed Electra.