Expedition for Amelia Earhart’s wreckage sets out
July 5, 2012, 01:34 pm
Scientists, historians and salvagers are embarking on a $2.2 million expedition to a remote island in the Pacific nation of Kiribati starting July 3 in an attempt to figure out what exactly happened to famed aviator Amelia Earhart when she went missing 75 years ago.
"Everything has pointed to the airplane having gone over the edge of that reef in a particular spot and the wreckage ought to be right down there," said Ric Gillespie, the founder and executive director of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, the group leading the search. "We're going to search where it - in quotes - should be.”
The mission is set to last 26 days, including the 16-day travel time between Honolulu and the remote island where the team expects to find remains from Earhart's wreckage. The group has an unmanned vehicle, which appears similar to a torpedo and is used for mapping terrain on the ocean floor, along with a remote-operated vehicle that will take pictures and identify objects in the ocean.
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