When Amelia Earhart vanished 75 years ago, the location of her plane's crash site in the South Pacific became one of the 20th century’s most enduring mysteries. Now, a group of historians, salvage workers and scientists think they know -- finally -- where to look. To that end, searchers left Tuesday from Honolulu, bound for the Pacific country of Kiribati. The expedition is a $2.2-million, 10-day operation that researchers hope will yield the wreckage of Earhart's Lockheed Electra, which disappeared during her attempt to be the first pilot to fly around the world at the equator. The group's theory: Earhart, then 39, and navigator Fred Noonan made an emergency landing on...
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