Possible wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane likely to be trees, say researchers

Researches looking at what they thought could have been the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane on a remote Pacific island say it is likely to be washed up trees. The team travelled to a lagoon in the Taraia Peninsula on Nikumaroro, Kiribati, to confirm whether a shiny object first spotted on satellite imagery in 2020 solved the decades-long mystery of the pioneering pilot's disappearance. But Purdue University, which has a leading role in the study, said the so-called Taraia Object "was likely a collection of large trees deposited along the peninsula's sandspit". 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, the university said.