"Researchers from Purdue University will undertake a three-week search of the remote Nikumaroro Island, a five-mile-long coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean. However, Justin Myers, a pilot with almost 25 years of experience, told Daily Mail he thinks the mission is 'barking up the wrong tree'. That's because Mr Myers believes he knows where Earhart's crashed plane really is. The Purdue University expedition is aiming to investigate a mysterious metal cylinder known as the Taraia object, which was spotted in satellite imagery in 2002."
"But according to Mr Myers, this object is nothing more than a piece of debris that has been drifting around the reef for years. He says: 'If I were in their position, I'd rule it out before you go wasting any more money.' Earhart was attempting to become the first woman to complete a full circumnavigational flight of the globe when she and Noonan vanished on July 2, 1937."
Purdue University will undertake a three-week search of Nikumaroro Island, a remote coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The expedition will investigate a metal cylinder called the Taraia object, spotted in satellite imagery in 2002 and believed to be the fuselage of Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E. Pilot Justin Myers, with almost 25 years' experience, contends the object is debris that has drifted around the reef and urges ruling it out. Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished on July 2, 1937, after departing Lae Airfield en route to Howland Island. Some theories place the pair 400 miles north at Nikumaroro, where long flat beaches could have allowed an emergency landing. A 15-person crew will depart November 4 and sail about 1,200 nautical miles from the Marshall Islands to investigate.
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