Mystery continues: Search for Amelia Earhart’s plane ends without finding aircraft

The mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, will continue, as the team that traveled to a remote Pacific island did not find what they were looking for. Read more trending news The Taraia Object expedition, a partnership by the Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI), Purdue Research Foundation and Purdue University, said the item that they believed could have been Earhart’s Lockheed Electra 10-E was not the plane. The item off the coast of Nikumaroro was likely a collection of large trees first seen on satellite images in 2020. Only part of the debris remains. But the team left with discoveries. They found several artifacts, including a nearly 30-inch-long steel tube near a lagoon on the Taraia Peninsula, the team said in a news release. Amelia Earhart’s milestonesDespite her final flight ending in mystery, Earhart broke several records as she pursued her love of flying. They include, according to the Smithsonian Institution Air and Space Museum:Earhar