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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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.