Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart, the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by plane sits on top of a plane. A Wyoming man who paid $1 million to sponsor a search for Amelia Earhart's missing airplane is asking a federal judge not to dismiss his fraud lawsuit against expedition organizers. Tim Mellon says the Pennsylvania-based International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery and its executive director actually found Earhart's plane in 2010. Mellon, son of the late philanthropist Paul Mellon, claims the group kept the discovery secret it could keep seeking funds
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