Amelia Earhart, an American pilot, created history in the 1930s when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, launching her to stardom for her amazing feat. She then developed into a supporter of women’s equal rights and contributed to the creation of the Ninety-Nines, a group that assists female pilots.
However, Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 while attempting to fly around the world, and their bodies and plane were never found. After being later pronounced dead in 1939, Earhart’s disappearance has long been the focus of rumors and conspiracies.
Others believe Earhart and Noonan managed to land on a Pacific island and perished there, while others suggested the Japanese captured and killed them. Some have claimed Earhart and Noonan died in the ocean after their plane crashed into the water.
One of the most well-known and skilled aviators of her time was Amelia Earhart. Credit: Alamy Stock Photo / Science History Images It’s safe to assume that Earhart is dead at this point because she would be the oldest person alive if she is still alive. Despite this, researchers think they may have discovered a clue to Earhart’s disappearance.
The Daily Mail reports that fresh information has been discovered through scientific investigation of an aluminum panel that washed ashore on an island close to where Amelia Earhart’s plane vanished and could be very important. According to an analysis of the panel, it was etched with the letters “D24,” “XRO,” and perhaps “335” or “385.” Experts are attempting to verify whether the panel, which washed up on Nikumaroro island in 1991, was ever connected to Amelia Earhart’s aircraft to corroborate the location where her plane crashed.
Additionally, it would help disprove certain ideas regarding her disappearance and prove others. When Amelia Earhart’s plane vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937, rumors of her death began to circulate. Credit: Alamy Stock Photo / Archive Pics The discovery has been dubbed “the first new information” that experts have been able to examine in the more than three decades since the panel was discovered, according to Kenan Ünlü, professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering at Penn State University and director of their Radiation Science and Engineering Center.
They discovered the letters and numbers by employing neutron radiography, which allowed them to discern patterns that were invisible to the naked eye. It operates by bombarding the target with neutrons to create an image that is invisible to the human eye and extract data that would have otherwise been lost to time.
