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What would recovery of Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane look like?

The depth where Amelia Earhart's plane is believed to be has been integral to preserving the suspected aircraft — but will prove to be a detriment to recovery expeditions, experts...

What we can learn from Amelia Earhart's plane if recent sonar image turns out to be 87-year-old wreck

"We do feel like based on where we found it, we can reverse engineer what happened, how she ended up there."

Amelia Earhart: How a small-town Kansas girl became an aviation icon —and enduring mystery

Before she became an iconic aviator whose vanishing has captivated the world for 87 years, Amelia Earhart grew up in a small Kansas town —and was the daughter of one...

New sonar detection sparks 'promising' hope in Amelia Earhart plane mystery

Amelia Earhart's family is once again hopeful that the 87-year-old mystery over the aviator's disappearance will finally be solved after a search in the Pacific pinged what could be her...

Possible sonar breakthrough in Amelia Earhart mystery was nearly lost as adventurers investigated 'date line' theory: report

Tony and Lloyd Romeo said hard drives containing the sonar image of a plane-like mass appeared corrupted as they chased the "date line" theory of Amelia Earhart's disappearance.

Plane-shaped sonar image may be vital clue in Amelia Earhart mystery, adventurer says

A plane-shaped mass on the Pacific floor may be a vital clue to solve the decades-old mystery surrounding trailblazing aviator Amelia Earhart, who vanished in 1937.

What happened to Amelia Earhart? Scientists hope new photo offers clue 86 years after aviator vanished

There's a new lead in the almost nine-decade search for Amelia Earhart's plane, which disappeared without a trace during her ill-fated bid to become the first woman to fly around...

Scientists discover new possible clue in Amelia Earhart mystery

Scientists believe that they have discovered a key clue in the mysterious death of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart -- who famously went missing during her ill-fated flight around the globe...

Helmet worn by Amelia Earhart sells for $825,000 at auction

A leather helmet that Amelia Earhart wore on a flight across the Atlantic in 1928 and later lost in a crowd of fans in Cleveland has sold at auction for...

Will these newly discovered bones crack the Amelia Earhart mystery?

A researcher at the University of South Florida is working to determine if newly discovered bones from a museum on an island in the Pacific belong to Amelia Earhart.

Rosa Parks and Sally Ride will be made into Barbie dolls

Mattel is giving some of our favorite "sheroes" the Barbie treatment. Civil rights icon Rosa Parks and astronaut Sally Ride have inspired two new dolls, the toy company announced. They're...

Explorer who found the Titanic wants to solve Amelia Earhart's disappearance

Robert Ballard, the oceanographer who found the Titanic in 1985, will begin to search for signs of Amelia Earhart, the pilot who disappeared from her attempted around-the-world flight more than...

Amelia Earhart 'wreck site' possibly discovered in Papua New Guinea

Researchers say that a site in Papua New Guinea may contain the long-lost remains of Amelia Earhart’s plane. Wreckage off the coast off Buka Island, Papua New Guinea, may offer...

How this 'fly girl' rose to fame — and then lost it all

When Charles Lindbergh made his historic transatlantic flight from New York to Paris in 1927, he became a star. But Ruth Nichols, 26, wasn’t all that impressed. She knew she...

Dozens heard Amelia Earhart radio for help as a castaway, researchers say

Dozens of people around the world heard Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan radio for help after crashing into the Pacific Ocean and becoming stranded on a remote island,...

Scientist '99 percent' sure bones found belong to Amelia Earhart

A scientific study claims to shed new light on the decades-long mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart. Richard Jantz, an emeritus anthropology professor at the University of Tennessee, argues...

Authorities find Amelia Earhart's stolen car

A rare vintage car that once belonged to Amelia Earhart went missing last week – but was found three days later parked on the street in a Los Angeles neighborhood....

Gruesome theory in Amelia Earhart disappearance

The mystery surrounding Amelia Earhart's disappearance has bewildered many for years. Some have proposed that her plane simply crashed and sank, while others have pondered a number of other explanations,...

Amelia Earhart mystery continues with claims of her grave

Days after a photo surfaced suggesting that legendary aviator Amelia Earhart may have survived a crash landing in the Marshall Islands 80 years ago, a group of researchers with a...

The bogus 'ostracism' of Trump and other comments

View from abroad: Why Does Europe Hate Trump? America, chortle the elite media, was “ostracized” by G20 leaders, led by Germany’s Angela Merkel, on immigration and other issues, notes Irwin...