A new mission to find Amelia Earhart's plane turns to AI for help

Source: Mashable SEA
Published on: 2026-10-15 17:38

AI can map the ocean floor in ways we never imagined -- and possibly uncover millions of shipwrecks and downed planes. For almost 90 years, the mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart has endured. She and her plane disappeared somewhere over the central Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937. Since then, it seems like every few years, an expedition sets out to find her plane. The boats and recovery teams have always been armed with the latest equipment, historical diaries, and maps. I'm old enough to remember the 1989 TIGHAR expedition, the first modern civilian search to focus heavily on the "castaway hypothesis." Yes, some people thought she might still be alive, but most thought it was a big waste of time. That '89 castaway trek, like all the searches before and since, returned empty-handed. Around eight years ago, there was a glimmer of hope that bones discovered in the Pacific were Ear...

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