CAT 2.05 - A New Approach

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The Waitt Institute for Discovery took a new approach to the search for Amelia by working with aviation investigators who reconstructed her last flight as they would a modern aviation accident. As part of their research, they inspected a vintage Lockheed Electra that had been modeled closely to Earhart's 10E. They also took thousands of photographs of the plane to have on file to compare with any debris we might find on the seafloor during the mission. Our flight re-construction team also tapped their own perspective and experience as pilots to try and predict the steps that Earhart and Noonan may have taken during the last hours of their flight. This direct experience combined with time spent in modern flight simulators and pouring over thousands of historical documents, helped crystallize their theories concerning the events that took place in July of 1937, and resulted in a 2500-square-mile search area.

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