A team of researchers set out to search for the wreckage of a Амелії Ергарт plane on a remote island
A team of researchers is heading to a remote island to inspect an object they believe may be the wreckage of a plane known to be Амелії Ергарт.
This is reported by BBC.
The group includes representatives of the American Institute of Archaeological Heritage (ALI) and Університету Пердью. Researchers will arrive on the island of Nikumaroro in the Pacific Ocean by Monday.
The American aviation pioneer disappeared while attempting a round-the-world flight in 1937, which gave rise to decades of speculation about her fate.
The team aims to find the so-called “об’єкт Тарая” (Taraia Object), which was first spotted in satellite images of the year 2020 at the edge of the lagoon near the island of Nikumaroro.
Університеті Пердью reported that the presence of this object was subsequently confirmed in aerial photographs of this area taken back in 1938.
Upon arrival, the researchers will have to pass through a narrow passage in the atoll reef laid by the British in 1963 - when the island was last inhabited.
“Виявлення літака Electra Амелії Ергарт стало б відкриттям усього життя”,
Photo by Purdue University
The group includes representatives of the American Institute of Archaeological Heritage (ALI) and Університету Пердью
What happened to Амелією Ергарт
2 July 1937 year Ergart arrived in Lae (Papua-Нова Гвінея), before she has already made a successful flight on its twin-engined “Electra” aircraft from California via Південну Америку, Africa and Asia.
From there, she and her navigator Фредом Нунаном planned to fly to Hawaii and then return to California.
However, her plane disappeared without a trace while trying to reach the island of Howland - a remote deserted coral island near Nikumaroro - for refueling.
Зникнення Ергарт has spawned numerous theories, from conventional plane crashes due to lack of fuel to more complex assumptions about outside interference.
According to the official version, during the search for the island, the crew had problems with communication, and when the plane ran out of fuel - it fell into the ocean. Although this version of events is generally accepted, no tangible evidence was found.
Photo by Archaeological Legacy Institute
Satellite image of "об'єкта Тарая" in the lagoon of Nikumaroro Island
