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We’ve been looking for Amelia Earhart for 86 years: A photo may have finally found her

A piece of metal debris found in the western Pacific is deemed to be from a World War II plane, not Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Electra

Newsroom October 2 12:22

We may never know what happened to Amelia Earhart, but it seems we’ll always have another clue to investigate. And another theory to debate.

Just as scientists ruled out one long-thought promising piece of metal debris as belonging to the famed pilot’s plane, a group spearheading a search for her downed Lockheed Electra aircraft in the western Pacific surfaced another clue to start investigating.

The search for Amelia Earhart never ends.

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The mystery started in July 1937. Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were already six weeks and 20,000 miles deep into a trip around the world, but about 1,700 miles southwest of Honolulu, Hawaii, the pair’s planned stop at Howland Island in the Pacific never happened.

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