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Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, is shown in this undated file photo. (AP Photo)
Searching for Earhart
Story aired: Wednesday, July 25, 2007



Ric Gillespie has been searching for Amelia Earhart for almost 20 years. He believes Earhart and her navigator crashed their plane near an island a thousand miles off the coast of Fiji. Now Gillespie and his team of aviation archaeologists are returning to the island of Nikumaroro, to try and find some conclusive evidence Earhart was there.

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Ric Gillespie

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