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Amelia EARHART’s Mystery

Some good years ago, the US Secretary of State at that time, Hillary
Rodham Clinton, announced the State Department’s support (help, advocate,
argue in favor of) of a new search to solve the mystery (something not
understood or beyond understanding; enigma) of aviator Amelia Earhart,
whose plane went missing (disappeared) over the South Pacific in July
1937 during her around-the-world flight attempt (effort to achieve or complete
something).

At an event in Washington to celebrate Earhart’s legacy (something
such as a tradition that exists as a result of something that happened in the
past), Clinton and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood met with a group
of scientists from the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery to
discuss the beginning of a new search for the wreckage (broken and
disordered parts or material from something) of Earhart’s plane.
Earhart and Fred Noonan disappeared during that 1937 flight from
New Guinea to Howland Island in the South Pacific. Their plane never arrived.
The group plans to search for Earhart’s Lockheed Electra plane off the remote
(distant, far) island of Nikumaroro. The Discovery Channel is also supporting
the privately funded, half - million-dollar search. A photo found in 2010 seem
to show the wheel of Earhart’s plane in the water off the South Pacific Island.
Clinton said: “It has been … many years since E. E. became the first pilot, man
or woman, to fly the longest equatorial route around the world …”