An organized search party called “The Earhart Project,” led by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, also known as TIGHAR (pronounced “tiger”), is in its second week of searching for clues surrounding the mysterious disappearance of legendary aviator Amelia Earhart.
The Earhart Project is testing the hypothesis that Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, made an emergency landing, and eventually died, on Gardner Island, also called Nikumaroro, an uninhabited island in the Republic of Kiribati, in the western Pacific Ocean. Read more.