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In 1937, Kansas Native and pioneering aviator, Amelia Earhart, sought to become the first female pilot

to circumnavigate the world.

It was a daring adventure, but one that ended in tragedy.

Then to a waiting world came news of disaster as the plane failed to reach tiny

Howland Island in mid-Pacific.

A British freighter, the Coast Guard and the Navy sped to the search.

The battleship Colorado steaming out from Honolulu under Force draft. From California,

the aircraft carrier Lexington, with 3,000 men and 72 planes aboard races into the

distant Pacific to join the greatest searching hobby in the history of aviation.

Almost nine decades later the company named Deep Sea Vision produced evidence of a plane, closely resembling amelias at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

Recovery temps are ongoing and offer the potential for resolution to the enduring

mystery of how and where Amelia's journey came to an end. However, this apparent discovery, while exciting, is just the latest in a series

of theories backed by photographs or eyewitness reports that suggest she variously died in a Japanese

prisoner of war camp, crashed in Papua New Guinea, but that she starved to death on a tiny remote island. We may or may not ever know how her

adventure ended, but we do know how it began and it was right here in

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