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Thu, Oct 1, 2026, 17:10:56 MT

AEROTIME · AIRLINES

PURDUE-BACKED EXPEDITION TO INVESTIGATE POSSIBLE EARHART AIRCRAFT WRECKAGE...

Nearly nine decades after Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared on July 2, 1937, in the South Pacific, a new expedition will test whether an unexplained object in a remote island’s lagoon is wreckage from their aircraft.

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