Via The Blaze/AP:
A new clue in one of the 20th century’s most enduring mysteries could soon uncover the fate of American aviator Amelia Earhart, who went missing without a trace over the South Pacific 75 years ago, investigators said Tuesday.
Enhanced analysis of a photograph taken just months after Earhart’s Lockheed Electra plane vanished shows what experts think may be the landing gear of the aircraft protruding from the waters off the remote island of Nikumaroro, in what is now the Pacific nation of Kiribati, they said.
Armed with that analysis by the State Department, historians, scientists and salvagers from The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, are returning to the island in July in the hope of finding the wreckage of Earhart’s plane and perhaps even the remains of the pilot and her navigator Fred Noonan.
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Rumor: she was accompanied on her fateful voyage by some guy. Follow @Twitchy for all your up-to-the-minute news on Amelia Earhart.
https://twitter.com/#!/ivancouronne/status/182442274062467072
Update: NPR reports on same.
https://twitter.com/#!/kidamon/status/182481828563783680
From the site of The Earhart Project.
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