Amelia Earhart mystery expedition halted as researchers seek answers on missing plane

A travel planned by researchers who are looking for answers astir the disappearance of American aviator Amelia Earhart has been delayed. 

The Purdue Research Foundation, based successful Indiana, and the Archaeological Legacy Institute, successful Oregon, announced they've halted their "Taraia Object Expedition" hunt task for the clip being.

Researchers had been readying to depart connected November 4 from Majuro, successful the Marshall Islands, for the distant land of Nikumaroro — located astir halfway betwixt Australia and Hawaii.

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But a property merchandise noted the task has been postponed to 2026, fixed the onset of the South Pacific cyclone season.

"The determination comes arsenic the squad awaits further clearance from the Kiribati authorities and arsenic seasonal upwind challenges footwear successful implicit the Pacific Ocean during wintertime months," reads the release.

Aviation trailblazer Amelia Earhart became the archetypal pistillate to alert solo and nonstop crossed the U.S. connected Aug. 24, 1932. (AP)

When they bash scope the island, researchers privation to find whether the "Taraia Object," a ocular anomaly captured by a satellite, is really the remains of Earhart’s plane.

Earhart is wide known arsenic an aviation trailblazer, becoming the archetypal pistillate to alert solo and nonstop crossed the U.S. connected Aug. 24, 1932.

She erstwhile worked astatine Purdue University successful Indiana, serving arsenic a vocation counsellor for women and advising the aeronautical engineering section portion surviving successful the women’s residence hall.

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Earhart flew The Electra, which disappeared connected July 2, 1937, portion traveling from New Guinea to Howland Island.

Researchers hypothesize that Earhart did not clang astatine sea, but alternatively landed and was stranded connected Nikumaroro Island, aboriginal perishing there.

The Taraia Object Expedition to Nikumaroro Island volition analyse a outer anomaly that researchers judge could beryllium Amelia Earhart's missing plane. (Purdue Research Foundation)

President Donald Trump antecedently announced that helium had ordered his medication to declassify and merchandise each authorities records related to Amelia Earhart.

Steven Schultz, main ineligible serviceman of the Purdue Research Foundation, spoke astir Trump's bid astatine a property league past month.

"One of the aspects of that connection was helium ordered the merchandise of immoderate classified worldly related to Amelia and her last flight," helium said. "To our knowledge, determination are nary records — determination are nary specified records that stay to beryllium unclassified."

The Purdue Research Foundation and Archaeological Legacy Institute precocious announced the "Taraia Object Expedition" project. (Purdue Research Foundation)

Dorothy Cochrane, the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum’s Earhart expert, antecedently told Fox News Digital that "there’s nary existent mystery" surrounding The Electra’s disappearance. 

"Amelia and [navigator] Fred [Noonan] were connected the close path. They had the people to get to adjacent Howland Island. … It was specified a tiny land successful the mediate of nowhere, and determination were vigor communications issues; they could not find it earlier they ran retired of fuel," she noted.

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Many theories person circulated astir the disappearance, specified arsenic Earhart surviving arsenic a castaway connected the land of Nikumaroro, being captured by the Japanese oregon serving arsenic a "U.S. spy" and observing Japanese enactment successful the Pacific. 

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Cochrane said she doesn’t bargain into these theories. 

"There are facts to beryllium followed from the Coast Guard folks who were awaiting them astatine Howland, truthful it's pertinent to hunt successful and astir Howland," she said.