Sonar image was not Amelia Earhart’s plane, but deep-sea explorers say search continues: “The plot thickens”
one sonar image Suspected display of aircraft wreckage amelia earhart” “, the famous American pilot who disappeared over the Pacific in 1937, turned out to be a rock formation.
South Carolina-based Deep Sea Vision (DSV) in January released a blurry image taken by an unmanned submersible that it said could be Earhart’s aircraft on the ocean floor.
The company said in a statement that this was not the case renew Posted on Instagram this month.
Deep Sea Vision said: “The wait is finally over after 11 months and unfortunately our target is not Amelia’s Electra 10E (just a natural rock formation).”
“The search by DSV continues as we speak,” it said. “The plot is further complicated by the fact that no evidence has yet been found of her disappearance.”
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The photo was taken by the DSV during an extensive search in the Pacific west of remote Howland Island, Earhart’s planned destination.
Tony Romeo, pilot and former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, told the Wall Street Journal Earlier this year, he funded an $11 million search by selling his commercial properties.
“This is probably the most exciting thing I’ve ever done in my life,” he told the Wall Street Journal. “I felt like a 10-year-old on a treasure hunt.”
Earhart disappeared while on a round-the-world flight with navigator Fred Noonan.
Her disappearance is one of the most tantalizing mysteries in aviation lore, one that has fascinated historians for decades and spawned a plethora of books, movies and theories.
Earhart, 39, and Noonan, 44, are widely believed to have abandoned their twin-engine Lockheed in the Pacific near Howland Island when they ran out of fuel during the final leg of their epic journey. Electra plane.
Earhart, best known as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932, took off from Oakland, California on May 20, 1937, hoping to become the first woman to circumnavigate the world.
Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared while flying across the Pacific on July 2, 1937, while Earhart was attempting to become the first female pilot to orbit the Earth. them disappeared without a tracespurring the largest and most expensive search and rescue effort U.S. Navy and Coast Guard in American history. Two years later, Earhart and Noonan were pronounced dead.
Over the years, many attempts at deep-sea searches using high-tech equipment failed to find Earhart’s plane.
There are other theories as to where Earhart may have disappeared. Ric Gillespie spent decades studying Earhart’s doomed flight, told cbs news In 2018, he had evidence that Earhart crashed on Gardner Island, about 350 nautical miles from Howland Island, and that she screamed for help for nearly a week before the plane was swept out to sea.
Gillespie’s organization Historic Aircraft Restoration International also claims to have discovered forensic evidence, including bones on the islandthat was probably Earhart’s.
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