Expedition to find Amelia Earhart's missing plane comes up empty

CBS News reports: A group of researchers who were hoping to find the missing plane of Amelia Earhart near a remote island in the South Pacific announced Sunday that they did not find the long-lost aircraft."Evidence gathered at the Taraia Peninsula on Nikumaroro confirmed that the visual anomaly first seen in satellite imagery in 2020 was likely a collection of large trees deposited along the peninsula's sandspit," the researchers said. "By the time the team arrived at the site, a good portion of the debris had fragmented and washed away, leaving only a single Y-shaped segment," which they said is what they had initially hoped was the plane.This is a breaking….

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