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An original, unpublished personal photo of Amelia Earhart dated 1937, along with goggles she was wearing during her first plane crash are seen Friday, Sept. 9, 2011, at Clars Auction Gallery in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

A grainy sonar image reignites excitement and skepticism over Earhart’s final flight

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In this Jan. 13, 1935, file photo, American aviatrix Amelia Earhart climbs from the cockpit of her plane at Los Angeles, Calif., after a flight from Oakland to visit her mother. (AP Photo, File)

Explorers claim to have found Amelia Earhart’s plane on the ocean floor

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., hosts the dedication and unveiling ceremony of a statue in honor of Amelia Earhart, one of the world's most celebrated aviators and the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, in Statuary Hall, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. The statue of Amelia Earhart will represent the State of Kansas in the National Statuary Hall Collection. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Aviator Amelia Earhart honored with statue at U.S. Capitol

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In this Jan. 13, 1935, file photo, American aviatrix Amelia Earhart climbs from the cockpit of her plane at Los Angeles, Calif., after a flight from Oakland to visit her mother. (AP Photo, File)

National Geographic aims to solve Amelia Earhart mystery

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Chatfield man’s quest? Find Amelia Earhart

By HANNAH YANG - Associated Press

This undated photo discovered in the U.S. National Archives by Les Kinney shows people on a dock in Jaluit Atoll, Marshall Islands. A new documentary film proposes that this image shows aviator Amelia Earhart, seated third from right, gazing at what may be her crippled aircraft loaded on a barge. The documentary &quot;Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence,&quot; which airs Sunday, July 9, 2017, on the History channel, argues that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, crash-landed in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands, were picked up by Japanese military and that Earhart was taken prisoner. (Office of Naval Intelligence/U.S. National Archives via AP)

Question raised about timeline of Amelia Earhart documentary

By MARK KENNEDY - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 6, 1937, file photo, Amelia Earhart, the American airwoman who is flying round the world for fun, arrived at Port Natal, Brazil, and took off on her 2,240-mile flight across the South Atlantic to Dakar, Africa. A new documentary &quot;Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence,&quot; which airs Sunday, July 9, 2017, on the History channel, proposes Earhart didn't die without a trace 80 years ago. Instead, the film argues that she and her navigator Fred Noonan crash-landed in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands, were picked up by Japanese military and that Earhart was taken prisoner. (AP Photo, File)

Finder of potential game-changing Earhart pix tells story

By RANDY HERSCHAFT and MARK KENNEDY - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 6, 1937, file photo, Amelia Earhart, the American airwoman who is flying round the world for fun, arrived at Port Natal, Brazil, and took off on her 2,240-mile flight across the South Atlantic to Dakar, Africa. A group investigating the mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart announced on Oct. 22, 2016, that it has uncovered another connection between the pioneering female pilot and a body found 76 years ago on a remote Pacific island. (AP Photo, File)

Group: Similarity between Amelia Earhart, 1940 skeleton

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In this May 20, 1937, photo, provided by The Paragon Agency, shows aviator Amelia Earhart at her Electra plane cabin, taken by Albert Bresnik at Burbank Airport in Burbank, Calif. It was a clear spring day in 1937 when Amelia Earhart, ready to make history by flying around the world, brought her personal photographer to a small Southern California airport to document the journey's beginning. (Albert Bresnik/The Paragon Agency via AP)

Brief film taken before Amelia Earhart’s last flight surfaces

By John Rogers - Associated Press

This undated photo shows Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. A piece of an aluminum aircraft discovered on an uninhabited atoll in the southwestern Pacific has been identified as belonging to Earhart's twin-engine Lockheed Electra. (AP Photo, file)

Amelia Earhart plane fragment identified

By Jennifer Pompi - The Washington Times

Experts say video doesn’t show Earhart wreckage

By BEN NEARY - Associated Press

FILE - In this undated file photo, Amelia Earhart stands next to a Lockheed Electra 10E, before her last flight in 1937 from Oakland, Calif., bound for Honolulu on the first leg of her record-setting attempt to circumnavigate the world westward along the Equator. American aviator Earhart’s disappearance in 1937 is among aviation’s most enduring mysteries. Earhart, the first female pilot to cross the Atlantic Ocean, vanished over the Pacific with Fred Noonan during an attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Seven decades later, people are still transfixed with the mystery. Theories range from her simply running out of fuel and crashing to her staging her own disappearance and secretly returning to the U.S. to live under another identity. (AP Photo/File)

Correction: Malaysia-Plane-Mystery story

By NICK PERRY and KRISTEN GELINEAU - Associated Press

This book cover image released by Dial Press shows &quot;I am Amelia Earhart,&quot; by Brad Meltzer. Novelist and comics writer Brad Meltzer is no stranger to heroes, but his latest work focuses on real-world ones with the goal of teaching young readers how to learn from and maybe emulate the likes of Rosa Parks, Amelia Earhart and Abraham Lincoln. (AP Photo/Dial Press)

Brad Meltzer’s new books teach kids real heroics

By MATT MOORE - Associated Press

Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan stand by their Lockheed Electra before the start of Earhart's fateful 1937 attempt to become first female pilot to circle the globe. (Associated Press)

Search for Earhart wreckage begins

By Oskar Garcia - Associated Press

Earhart goggles, photos pull in more than $31,000

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: Interpreting the Earhart story

By Priscilla S. Taylor - The Washington Times

Finding America’s aviator

Finding America’s aviator