Amelia Earhart’s plane that vanished in 1937 been founded

The mysterious disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her plane in 1937 has captivated the world for decades. However, recent developments have shed new light on this enduring mystery. It has been confirmed that Earhart’s plane has finally been found, bringing closure to one of aviation's greatest enigmas.

Earhart, a pioneering aviator and women's rights advocate, vanished during her attempt to circumnavigate the globe. The search for her and her Lockheed Electra aircraft spanned years, but yielded no concrete evidence until now. A team of researchers discovered wreckage off the coast of Nikumaroro Island in the Pacific Ocean that is believed to be Earhart's plane.

Tony Romeo, a former Air Force intelligence officer and the CEO of Deep Sea Vision, sold commercial real estate to fund his deep-sea exploration of the Pacific Ocean last year, when he combed the ocean floor with sonar technology in the suspected area of Earhart's crash.

His team reviewed sonar data in December caught by an underwater drone from his research voyage and found a startling image: a blurry, plane-like shape Romeo believes is Earhart's twin engine Lockheed 10-E Electra.

The team spotted the plane-shaped object between Australia and Hawaii, about 100 miles off Howland Island, which is where Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were supposed to refuel but never arrived.

The shape of the object in the sonar images closely resembles Earhart's aircraft, a Lockheed Electra, both in size and tail. Deep Sea Vision founder, Tony Romeo, said he was optimistic in what they found.

"All that combined, you'd be hard-pressed to convince me that this is not an airplane and not Amelia's plane," he said.

The Deep Sea Vision team plans to investigate the area where the images were taken some time this year, Romeo added.

Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, went missing as she embarked on a quest to become the first female pilot to circle the globe. The two were expected to land on Howland Island, between Australia and Hawaii, to refuel but never arrived. Decades later, neither their bodies nor the plane were ever found, birthing countless theories about her disappearance

nearly 90 years later, no wreckage has ever been found, and Romeo thinks his team's sonar image may finally show the long-lost aircraft.

Romeo, who was joined on the expedition by two of his brothers who are also pilots, told the Journal that their aviation expertise provided a fresh perspective during the search.

"We always felt that a group of pilots were the ones that are going to solve this, and not the mariners," Romeo told the newspaper.

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Sarah H

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