The researchers said what they had hoped was the plane was "likely a collection of large trees" that had washed away, leaving a "single Y-shaped segment."

Search after search has failed to find the plane of Amelia Earhart, the pioneering pilot who disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.

A team has travelled to Nikumaroro Island, part of Kiribati, hoping to solve the mystery of the famed aviator's disappearance by investigating the so-called Taraia Object, spotted in the atoll's lagoo...