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No wreckage found in expedition to solve fate of Amelia Earhart

Foto: TIGHAR

What is believed to be airplane wreckage is seen in this handout image courtesy of the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) taken in October 1939, in Nikumaroro, Republic of Kiribati.

HONOLULU (Reuters) - A team trying to solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart's fate 75 years after she vanished over the Pacific has ended its expedition to a remote island without finding her plane, the group said.

Researchers on July 3 set off on a $2.2 million expedition and travelled 1,800 miles (2,897 km) by ship from Honolulu to Nikumaroro in the Republic of Kiribati to search for clues to her disappearance in 1937.

"We are returning from Nikumaroro with volumes of new sonar data and hours upon hours of high-definition video," The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery said in a statement on Monday.

TIGHAR did not immediately release details about what the sonar data or video might show, and it did not say that any plane wreckage it had sought has been recovered.

Earhart, along with her navigator Fred Noonan, set out to circumnavigate the globe along an equatorial route.