New hunt for Amelia Earhart's plane

A research team supported by Purdue University is hoping to solve one of aviation's greatest mysteries — the location of Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane, Axios Indianapolis' Justin L. Mack reports.

• The expedition will confirm whether an anomaly seen in satellite imagery of Nikumaroro Island, which is about halfway between Australia and Hawaii, is Earhart's plane.

"What we have here is maybe the greatest opportunity ever to finally close the case," Richard Pettigrew, executive director of the Archaeological Legacy Institute, said in a statement.

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