Search For Amelia Earhart’s Plane Yields “A Clump Of Trees” And Coconut Crabs
Episode 23 min 17s

Search For Amelia Earhart’s Plane Yields “A Clump Of Trees” And Coconut Crabs

What a let down.   After high hopes that a 90 year mystery would finally be solved, a team of U.S. researchers are leaving a remote island empty-handed after suspected ‘plane debris’ was, in fact,  a clump of trees   The expedition arrived at Nikumaroro in the South Pacific after years of research and a hope that the team had finally located Amelia Earhart’s plane.  Previous visits to the uninhabited island found signs of a castaway camp, a 1930s-era woman’s shoe and other evidence attributed to the celebrity aviator, including glass from a cosmetics freckle cream jar.  But for now, the mystery continues. 

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