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Deep-sea explorer who found Titanic launches mission to find Amelia Earhart's plane...

• https://www.dailymail.co, By GEORGE MARTIN

The deep-sea explorer who followed an underwater debris trail to discover the wreck of the Titanic is about to tackle one of the greatest mysteries in aviation history: Amelia Earhart's disappearance.

Robert Ballard and a National Geographic expedition will search for her plane next month near a Pacific Ocean atoll known today as Nikumaroro that's part of the Phoenix Islands.

Ballard and his team will use remotely operated underwater vehicles in their search, much like the explorer did when he set out to find Titanic in 1985. 

'Using state-of-the-art technology and decades of evidence collected in regard to her disappearance, I would say we have a real shot at rewriting history by solving one of the greatest mysteries of our time,' Ballard said in a statement released by National Geographic. 


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