Doubt over Earhart photograph claims

MAJURO, Marshall Islands - A Marshall Islands-based military expert has cast further doubt on claims that a blurry photograph shows famed US aviator Amelia Earhart alive in the territory in 1937.

The fate of the legendary pilot and her navigator Fred Noonan during their round-the-world flight is one of aviation's greatest mysteries, and has fascinated historians for decades.

Earhart and Noonan vanished on July 2, 1937, after taking off from Lae, Papua New Guinea, and the prevailing belief is that they ran out of fuel and ditched their twin-engine Lockheed Electra in the Pacific Ocean near remote Howland Island.