"New analysis of a photo taken in 1937 has led investigators to think it might show a piece of  the landing gear from aviator Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra plane, which disappeared in June that year somewhere in the South Pacific."

"And at the State Department today, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other officials gathered to announce that a privately funded search effort led by the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) will be going to the Pacific island nation of Kiribati in July to see if they can find any evidence of the aircraft, Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan."

"'Amelia Earhart may have been an unlikely heroine for a nation down on its luck,' Clinton said, 'but she embodied the spirit of an America coming of age and increasingly confident, ready to lead in a quite uncertain and dangerous world.'"