HONOLULU — Even though a month-long voyage for Amelia Earhart’s plane wreckage turned up no smoking gun, the searchers devoted to the hunt say they have a trove of evidence to go through that will help shed light on what happened to the famed aviator 75 years ago.
The expedition to the Kiribati atoll of Nikumaroro roughly 2,000 miles southwest of Hawaii was well on its way back to Honolulu on Tuesday.
Pat Thrasher, president of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, said the voyagers looked at footage as it initially came in from a tethered underwater vehicle rigged with cameras and lights. But the group expects to learn more through repeat viewings, picking up new insights on the underwater landscape where they believe the plane went down. The group has countless hours of high-definition video and sonar data.
The group still believes Earhart and her navigator crashed onto a reef off the island
