A new expedition is underway to locate the wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s aircraft, which vanished during her attempted circumnavigation of the globe in 1937. The search team is currently en route to a remote island identified as a potential crash site. This mission represents the latest in a series of decades-long efforts to determine the final location of the aviator and her plane.

While the disappearance remains one of the most famous aviation mysteries in history, previous expeditions have yielded various theories, ranging from a crash in the Pacific Ocean to the possibility that Earhart landed on a remote island. This current team is focused on investigating specific geographic coordinates that researchers believe may hold physical evidence of the aircraft. The expedition is being conducted with the hope of finally providing a definitive answer to the circumstances of the 1937 flight, which ended abruptly near Howland Island. As the team approaches the site, the aviation community remains divided on whether the wreckage can still be recovered after nearly 90 years of exposure to the elements.