The search for Amelia Earhart’s missing airplane has gone on for more than eight decades. Theories abound, but evidence of the legendary aviator’s ultimate fate has been hard to find. However, a definitive resolution to this historical mystery may be close at hand, finally, thanks to the determined efforts of an Oregon-based research institute to get at the truth. They say they have collected compelling evidence that a strange object photographed in a shallow lagoon adjacent to the Taraia Peninsula and near Nikumaroro Island in the central Pacific is in fact the fuselage of the missing Lockheed Model 10 Electra that Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan were flying when they were tragically lost at sea. Known as the
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