A grainy sonar image captured off an uninhabited Pacific island could show the remains of Amelia Earhart’s doomed plane which disappeared in 1937. The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) say the latest evidence could be a step closer to finding out the mystery behind her disappearance. Earhart, then 39, was on the final stage of an an ambitious around-the-world flight along the equator in a twin-engine Lockheed Electra when she and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared. The image was captured off an uninhabited tropical island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati and showed an 'anomaly' at a depth of 600 feet in the waters.
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Famous aviator disappeared as she attempted an around the world flight
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TIGHAR have spent years investigating Earhart's last, fateful flight
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Image showed an 'anomaly' at a depth of 600 feet in the waters
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