New search hopes to prove Amelia Earhart crashed on remote Marshalls atoll

A search is under way on a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands aimed at solving the mysterious disappearance of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A group of researchers travelled Sunday to Mili Atoll where a small aluminium cover plate and part of a landing-gear wheel assembly, believed to be from Earhart’s plane, were found last year. Earhart, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic solo, disappeared in 1937 with navigator Fred Noonan when attempting to circumnavigate the world in a twin-engine Lockheed Electra aircraft.

We brought more sophisticated equipment to find other parts.

Jon Jeffery, director of technology and business development at United States-based Parker Aerospace, which is sponsoring the search

Marshall Islanders have long claimed Earhart crashed on an atoll and a group known as Amelia Research, Inc. found aircraft parts there last year. Marshall Islanders have claimed they saw Earhart’s plane go down on a small island in Mili Atoll, and others reported seeing her in Jaluit. The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery has dismissed the Marshalls theory. It believes Earhart went down at Nikumaroro Atoll in the central Pacific nation of Kiribati near the Marshall Islands.

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