Underwater search for Amelia Earhart's aircraft begins at Nikumaroro
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On 14 October a new underwater search for Amelia Earhart's missing aircraft started at the remote Pacific atoll of Nikumaroro, involving a 17‑person expedition that includes Purdue University and is investigating an object in a lagoon that may be remnants of her Lockheed Electra 10‑E.
The object, called Taraia, was first spotted on satellite images in 2020 and was also visible on 1938 aerial photographs, and researchers are initially using magnetometers and side‑scan sonar to detect metallic items and structures beneath the sediments; one theory suggests Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan may have made a forced landing on Nikumaroro, about 640 kilometres southeast of their planned stop at Howland Island.