A $2.2m (£1.4m) expedition seeking wreckage from aviator Amelia Earhart's final flight has failed to find the dramatic, conclusive plane images searchers were hoping for.
But the group leading the search, the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (Tighar), still believes Earhart and her navigator crashed on to a reef off a remote island in the Pacific Ocean 75 years ago this month.
"This is just sort of the way things are in this world," Tighar president Pat Thrasher said on Monday.
"It's not like an Indiana Jones flick where you go through a door and there it is. It's not like that – it's never like that."
Thrasher said the group collected a significant amount of video and sonar data, which searchers will pore over this week to look for things that may be tough to see at first glance.
The group is also planning a voyage for next year to scour the land where it is believed Earhart survived a short while after the crash, Thrasher said.
The search was cut short because of treacherous underwater terrain and repeated, unexpected equipment mishaps that caused delays and left the group with only five days of search time rather than 10, as originally planned.
During one episode, an unmanned underwater vehicle wedged itself into a narrow cave, a day after squashing its nose cone against the ocean floor. It needed to be rescued.
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