Researchers arrive at Nikumaroro in search of Amelia Earhart’s plane

Could a nearly 90-year-old mystery be solved soon? Crews trying to learn what happened to Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, have arrived at a remote South Pacific atoll in search of answers. Read more trending news It took five days and 830 nautical miles to reach the small island of Nikumaroro, where researchers spotted a visual anomaly in satellite images that they believe could be Earhart’s plane, a Lockheed Electra 10-E, Purdue said in a news release. The anomaly, called the Taraia Object, was first seen in 2020, the BBC said.This is the first authorized trip to Nikumaroro in seven years and the first to the Taraia Peninsula in more than 15 years, Purdue said, which is conducting the investigation with the Archaeological Legacy Institute.The crew is on the Marin Mainiku, which arrived on the western side of the landmass that is part of the Phoenix Islands of the Republic of Kiribati. They then moved to the eastern end of the island for calmer conditions as they made fi