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Purdue researchers travelling to Pacific Ocean island group to examine possible Amelia Earhart aircraft remnants

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A research team from Purdue University plans to visit an island group in the Pacific Ocean next month to examine a site that may contain remnants of the aircraft Amelia Earhart used to attempt a circumnavigation of the world in 1937.

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    Purdue researchers travelling to Pacific Ocean island group to examine possible Amelia Earhart aircraft remnants (opens WFLA)

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    A research team from Purdue University plans to visit an island group in the Pacific Ocean next month to examine a site that may contain remnants of the aircraft Amelia Earhart used to attempt a circumnavigation of the world in 1937.

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