01/30/2024

An Exploration Team Believes They Found Amelia Earhart’s Missing Plane

The key reason they believe they found it is its unique shape

An ocean exploration company claims to have found Amelia Earhart's missing plane, a potential lead in the decades-long mystery over the legendary pilot's disappearance.

A 16-person team led by Deep Sea Vision, a company in South Carolina, used an unmanned, underwater drone to scan more than 5,200 square miles of ocean floor between September and December of 2023. Sonar data reviewed in December revealed an image that the company's founder, Tony Romeo, believes is Earhart's plane, Lockheed 10-E Electra, that she was flying when she went missing in 1937. The key reason Romeo believes its Earhart's is its unique shape.

"Well, you'd be hard-pressed to convince me that's anything but an aircraft, for one, and two, that it's not Amelia's aircraft," Romeo, a pilot and a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, told NBC's "TODAY" show on Monday. "There's no other known crashes in the area, and certainly not of that era in that kind of design with the tail that you see clearly in the image."

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