🗞️ Story file #406
New expedition to search for Amelia Earhart's plane announced
Oct 13, 11 AM ET to Oct 16, 5 PM ET
- 14outlets carried it
- 🫏8 · 2 · 4🐘left · center · right
- 3.2 dayson the front pages
- 11front pages at once, at its peak
- 6 minof TV captions
- 1radio newscast
- 1 of 2parts of a saga
👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.
- Oct 13, 11 AM ETfirst on a front page: ABC News
- Oct 13, 1 PM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
- Oct 13, 6 PM ETpeak: on 11 front pages
- Oct 14, 4 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 quoted: “greatest mysteries” “Critical Phase”
🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 earhart expedition
✏️ 7 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- ABC News (3 wordings): “Researcher speaks out as search for Amelia Earhart, lost plane narrows A team is searching an isolated atoll in the Pacific Ocean.” → “Crew lands on remote island in search for Amelia Earhart”
- Fox News (4 wordings): “Amelia Earhart mystery enters critical phase as explorers zero in on mysterious object” → “Race to find Amelia Earhart's lost plane hits rough seas as crucial deadline nears”
- New York Post (2 wordings): “The mystery of Amelia Earhart’s long-lost aircraft may finally be solved.” → “Expedition to find Amelia Earhart’s lost plane continues in giant man-eating crab-infested lagoon”
- Newsweek (2 wordings): “Amelia Earhart Team Reach ‘Critical Phase’ Of Plane Hunt In South Pacific” → “Amelia Earhart Timeline as Team to Give Search Update This Weekend”
- The Independent (2 wordings): “Hunt for Amelia Earhart’s plane enters critical phase” → “Could Amelia Earhart have been eaten by giant crabs? Theory resurfaces as hunt for her plane enters critical phase”
- Townhall (2 wordings): “Are We Finally Going to Locate Amelia Earhart's Plane? Amy Curtis” → “Are We Finally Going to Locate Amelia Earhart's Plane?”
- USA Today (3 wordings): “Amelia Earhart expedition team heads to island of huge…” → “New search begins for Amelia Earhart plane suspected…”
Every outlet's first headline (14), left to right by AllSides rating
The Daily Beast
Researchers Looking for Amelia Earhart’s Remains Arrive at Carnivorous Island Oct 13, 4 PM ET
The Guardian
Amelia Earhart expedition aims to solve disappearance Oct 12, 8 PM ET
ABC News
Researcher speaks out as search for Amelia Earhart, lost plane narrows A team is searching an isolated atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Oct 13, 11 AM ET
CBS News
Mystery of Amelia Earhart's plane could be solved in days Oct 14, 10 PM ET
NBC News
Research crew searching for Amelia Earhart plane arrives on remote island in South Pacific Oct 13, 6 PM ET
The Independent
Hunt for Amelia Earhart’s plane enters critical phase Oct 13, 11 AM ET- The Week The new expedition to find Amelia Earhart’s plane Under The Radar One of aviation’s ‘greatest mysteries’ might be about to be solved Oct 14, 8 PM ET
USA Today
Amelia Earhart expedition team heads to island of huge… Oct 12, 4 PM ET
BBC
Crew searching for Amelia Earhart arrives at crab-infested island Oct 12, 7 PM ET
Newsweek
Amelia Earhart Team Reach ‘Critical Phase’ Of Plane Hunt In South Pacific Oct 13, 5 AM ET
The Sun
HUNT FOR ANSWERS Group travel 830 miles to find Amelia Earhart's plane on remote island Oct 11, 12 PM ET
Fox News
Amelia Earhart mystery enters critical phase as explorers zero in on mysterious object Oct 13, 1 PM ET
New York Post
The mystery of Amelia Earhart’s long-lost aircraft may finally be solved. Oct 13, 6 PM ET
Townhall
Are We Finally Going to Locate Amelia Earhart's Plane? Amy Curtis Oct 15, 9 AM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
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📻 On the radio
- ABC News Update, Oct 13, 1:05 PM ET: story 7 of 7
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
🗣️ names in it: Amelia Earhart HUNT FOR ANSWERS South Pacific Pacific Ocean Isolated atoll
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🧵 Amelia Earhart plane search
New expedition to search for Amelia Earhart's plane announced (this story)
Oct 13, 11 AM ET
Amelia Earhart search yields no wreckage but new Object identified
Oct 19, 12 AM ET