One of the mysteries that plagues aviators today is what happened to Amelia Earhart and her plane after she disappeared without a trace in 1937.
Former Air Force intelligence officer Tony Romeo is trying to solve the long-standing mystery of the whereabouts of Earnart's plane, and a recent sonar image taken by Romeo reveals that he may be on the cusp of solving the long-standing mystery.
Romeo, founder of exploration company Deep Sea Vision, deployed a drone 16,500 meters below the ocean in Tarawa, Kiribati, in an attempt to find Earhart's plane.
The drone captured sonar images that had the same shape as a Lockheed Electra, the same model plane that Earhart flew during her last flight.
Romeo didn't want to give any false hope. “I'm not saying we found it,” he said, but he remains very optimistic and plans to conduct secondary research in the near future to see if sonar images can capture the image. The tail number of the aircraft.
Adventurer says plane-shaped sonar image could be vital clue in Amelia Earhart mystery https://t.co/Qv3SY4ci8P pic.twitter.com/ja0vmmhHK2
– New York Post (@nypost) January 27, 2024
Per the New York Post:
For dozens of explorers, Amelia Earhart was the one who escaped – seemingly forever.
However, a commercial real estate investor from Charleston, South Carolina, believes he may have finally found a vital piece of the 87-year-old puzzle.
The pioneering pilot, who was a household name at the time, disappeared with her navigator on what was a record-breaking circumnavigation of the world in 1937.
Despite numerous attempts and millions of dollars spent over nine decades, neither Earhart's remains nor the wreckage of her plane have been definitively located.
But Tony Romeo, a pilot and former US Air Force intelligence officer who sold all his business holdings to pay for his search, told the Wall Street Journal he believes he has found part of Earhart's plane at the bottom of the ocean.
Searching for Amelia Earhart.
Deep Sea Vision surveyed more than 5,200 square miles of the ocean floor with a crew of 16 and a Kongsberg Discovery HUGIN 6000 before finding what could be the legendary American Lockheed 10-E Electra pilot. pic.twitter.com/lkxZqUOmkV
— Deep Sea Vision (@DeepSeaVision) January 27, 2024
