"'Something happened which had never happened before in my 12 years of flying,' she explains in the recording. 'That is, the altimeter, the instrument required to register altitude - height above ground - failed.'"
"'It was just meant to be ephemeral, kind of like a ring you would get in a box of Cracker Jack,' Ms Zimmerman said. 'It wasn't really meant to last.'"
"'The project did what IRENE does best, allowing us to recover voices from the past without ever touching the record's surface.'"
A recording of Amelia Earhart's voice from 1932 has been found, featuring her speech in London after her solo Atlantic flight. In the recording, she describes a malfunction of her altimeter during the flight. The recording was discovered by Amanda Zimmerman in a damaged 78 rpm record hidden in Earhart's memoir. Researchers used the IRENE project to recover the audio without damaging the record. Earhart's flight occurred five years before her mysterious disappearance during a circumnavigational attempt.
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