Seventy-five years after the disappearance of famed woman aviatorAmelia Earhart, explorers are getting closer to solving the mysteryof what happened to her. She disappeared over the Pacific whileattempting to circumnavigate the globe in her airplane. TIGHAR,The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, haslaunched nine expeditions in the past 24 years looking for clues. Earhart was a pioneering American aviator in the early 20thcentury. The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean,she became a national celebrity. In July of 1937, she andnavigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific while attemptingto fly around the world. To this day their fate is shrouded inmystery. Seventy-five years later, The International Group For HistoricAircraft Recovery, TIGHAR, works to solve the mystery. "The romantic attraction of the Earhart mystery, she was thecelebrity that inspired people when she was alive. And then shedisappeared in such a mysterious way," said Rick Gillespie,executive director of TIGHAR. Earhart disappeared while flying from Lae, Papua New Guinea, toHowland Island, 3,100 kilometers southwest of Hawaii. TIGHAR researchers believe she ran low on fuel and veered offcourse to the small uninhabited island of Nikumaroro, which wasnever thoroughly searched during the initial 1937 investigation. "We said, 'Wow, nobody ever looked for Amelia Earhart in themost likely place?' And they said, 'Well, that is the way it looksto us,'" Gillespie said. TIGHAR members have uncovered artifacts from what they call"site 7" - on the tiny South Pacific atoll. "A number of them came from 2007. Some of them came from2010," said TIGHAR staff member Joe Cerniglia, who showedsome of the artifacts. A jar that might have held a woman"sfacial cream, a beer bottle, and a lanoline bottle. All believedto be from the late 1930"s. "We have a chemical match from two labs that show thatresidue from this bottle, which was recovered from Nikumaroro,matches residue from a bottle such as this one that was recoveredfrom eBay," Cerniglia said. They have also recovered pieces of an aircraft. As Gillespiepoints out, TIGHAR has found a lot of intriguing artifacts. Butthe undeniable evidence that Earhart ended up on Nikumaroro eludesthem. "This is very much like a jigsaw puzzle. And we have got theedges. We have got most of the picture in the interior. What wedon"t have are those final pictures that make it absolutelybeyond a doubt to anyone who looks at it that this is that answerto this riddle," Gillespie said. TIGHAR will return to Nikumaroro for its tenth expedition in July. With sophisticated underwater equipment, they plan to search thesea floor looking for the wreckage of Earhart"s plane. Andfinally, perhaps, solve the mystery of her disappearance. The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as Flooring Display Racks , China Spinner Display Racks, and more. For more , please visit Supermarket Shelving today!
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