This morning, the team searching for Amelia Earhart's plane are waking up to this view.

This morning, the team searching for Amelia Earhart's plane are waking up to this view. Researchers from Purdue University and the Archaeological Legacy Institute are spending their second day on uninhabited Nikumaroro Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Traveling more than 6,000 miles to determine if this image, first discovered on Apple Maps in 2020, is indeed Amelia Earhart's airplane, possibly unlocking an 89-year-old mystery. I know the eyes of the world are calling us because of that curiosity and that interest. It could be within the next day or two that we are able to solve one of the biggest mysteries of the 20th century, that is identifying the lost underwater aircraft. The team, forced to retreat back to their boat anchored far offshore nightly, in order to avoid these three-foot meat-eating crabs called coconut crabs. The flesh-eating crustaceans with the jaw strength of a lion. They can't be dangerous if one wants to offer one's finger to the crab, but that's not really a problem. Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan were last seen taking off in her twin-engine plane on July 2nd, 1937. So, helping to find them, more than 4,000 pages were released from the National Archives just last year of records relating to the 1937 disappearance, including logbooks of the US military involved in the search. Now, the naval search at that time was the most extensive for them ever. At that time.