Earharts

A deep sea exploration company has released a sonar image they say may be the remains of the plane of Amelia Earhart, the famed American aviatrix who disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.Deep Sea Vision (DSV), a South Carolina-based firm, said the image was captured after an extensive search in an area of the Pacific to the west of Earhart's planned destination, remote Howland Island.Earhart went missing while on a pioneering round-the-world flight with navigator Fred Noonan.Her disappearance is one of the most…

One of aviation history’s biggest mysteries might finally be resolved.When Amelia Earhart was officially declared dead on January 5, 1939, after the US government concluded her engine had run out of fuel and crashed into the vast ocean, questions regarding what had happened following the supposed crash remained unresolved, until now.For nearly a century, the disappearance of the legendary American aviator has gripped people’s attention worldwide, with multiple theories emerging online trying to piece together her…

Eighty-six years after Amelia Earhart disappeared, and following countless searches over and in the Pacific Ocean, the founder of a deep-sea exploration company believes he has found her airplane. The evidence: a few fuzzy images taken roughly 5,000 meters under the surface of the Pacific, showing what appears to be an object on the ocean floor. Shaped like a plane, the object is located where experts believe the famed pilot went down while attempting to become the first woman to fly around the world. Tony Romeo,…

Amelia Earhart was declared dead in January of 1939, two years after her around-the-world flight in her Lockheed Electra 10E Special ended in an unsolved disappearance. Earhart was the world’s most accomplished and famed female pilot in 1937, and her ill-fated flight is still the kind of thing that haunts a person. Real-estate investor and pilot Tony Romeo spent around $11 million on an expedition to uncover the whereabouts of Earhart’s lost plane, and after a 100-day voyage covering 5,200 square miles of ocean floor, he…