"The legendary aviator and her navigator, Fred Noonan, set out from Lae in New Guinea in July 1937 as part of her bid to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the world. They were never seen again and, despite the most extensive sea and air search in American history up to that point, no trace has ever been found of Earhart or her Lockheed Electra plane."
"'Our latest radio communication analysis is a major leap forward in solving one of the most enduring mysteries in aviation history,' Dave Jourdan, president of Nauticos, the company behind the mission, said. 'We have narrowed the search area dramatically, and this new expedition presents our best chance yet to finally locate Amelia Earhart's plane.' Nauticos, which specialises in deep-sea exploration and historical research, procured and restored a Western Electric 13C aircraft transmitter and a Bendix Model RA-1A receiver in 2020."
Nauticos restored a Western Electric 13C aircraft transmitter and a Bendix Model RA-1A receiver identical to the radio system used on Amelia Earhart's final flight. Radio tests recreated the flight's transmission circumstances and enabled estimation of the plane's approximate location at 8am on the day it vanished. The refined search area is near Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean, reducing the previously surveyed sea floor of 3,610 square miles. Nauticos will launch a fourth expedition informed by the radio analysis. The effort aims to locate Earhart's Lockheed Electra and resolve the nearly 90-year-old disappearance.
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