Robots to join hunt for Earhart's plane
Friday, June 22, 2012 - 12:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
U.S. Navy warships and aircraft failed to find Amelia Earhart when the pioneering female aviator vanished in the South Pacific during her second attempt to fly around the world in 1937. This summer, aviation archaeologists have enlisted the help of underwater robots to find the wreckage of Earhart's aircraft.