Amelia Earhart

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✈️ Sonar search for Amelia Earhart

Sonar image side by side with Earhart's twin-engine Lockheed 10-E Electra at scale. Photo: Deep Sea Vision Underwater archaeologists claim they may have solved an 86-year-old mystery — the disappearance of pioneer pilot Amelia Earhart during her effort to fly around the world in 1937. Deep Sea Vision — a marine robotics company based in Charleston, S.C. — tomorrow will release the fuzzy sonar image you see above, captured west of Earhart's projected landing point, in a swath of the remote Pacific untouched by known wrecks. Why it matters: Earhart, a champion of women's rights, was a global celebrity. Her loss at sea is one of the great modern mysteries and has fostered speculation and conspiracy theories for nearly a century. Deep Sea Vision, which searched with an autonomous underwater submersible, supplied details to Axios after The Wall Street Journal reported the discovery, with the memorable sentence: "People can't quit Amelia. They also can't seem to find her." The image "reveals contours that mirror the unique dual tails and scale of her storied aircraft," DSV says in the announcement. The explorers worked on the "Date Line Theory," which posits that Earhart's well-known navigator, Fred Noonan, "miscalculated his celestial star navigation by simply forgetting to turn back the date from July 3 to July 2 [1937] as they flew across the [international] Date Line, creating a westward navigational error of 60 miles." DSV founder Tony Romeo, a pilot who graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy, said: "We always felt that she [Earhart] would have made every attempt to land the aircraft gently on the water, and the aircraft signature that we see in the sonar image suggests that may be the case." The exact location wasn't released. Experts told The Journal they want to see clearer views — including the serial number. More on Amelia Earhart.

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A grainy sonar image reignites excitement and skepticism over Earhart’s final flight

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A grainy sonar image recorded by a private pilot has reinvigorated interest in one of the past century’s most alluring mysteries: What happened to Amelia Earhart when her plane vanished during her flight around the world in 1937?

https://apnews.com/article/amelia-earhart-sonar-plane-mystery-e7d4f7fdfe9ff32c663bb396d33420a0?

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✈ New hunt for Amelia Earhart's plane

GIF: Purdue University Libraries/Purdue Research Foundation A research team supported by Purdue University is hoping to solve one of aviation's greatest mysteries — the location of Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane, Axios Indianapolis' Justin L. Mack reports. The expedition will confirm whether an anomaly seen in satellite imagery of Nikumaroro Island, which is about halfway between Australia and Hawaii, is Earhart's plane. "What we have here is maybe the greatest opportunity ever to finally close the case," Richard Pettigrew, executive director of the Archaeological Legacy Institute, said in a statement.

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Hunt for Earhart’s Plane

An expedition to find the plane Amelia Earhart disappeared in is set to begin this October. The news was announced yesterday, on what would have been Earhart’s 129th birthday. A 16-person team of archaeologists, filmmakers, and other experts will travel by boat on Oct. 7 to a remote island in the central Pacific nation of Kiribati. The expedition believes Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, got stranded there while trying to circumnavigate the globe in 1937. Radio signals, human bones, and 1930s-era artifacts—including anti-freckle cream—all suggest Earhart and Noonan may have died on an unplanned stop at the uninhabited island. Shortly after a strong tropical storm in 2015, satellite imagery also captured a visual anomaly the expedition team believes could be the wreckage of Earhart's long-lost Lockheed 10-E Electra aircraft. Other experts say it's likely a downed coconut tree. See the satellite image here. Before her fatal 1937 mission, Earhart became the first woman to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean, a college professor, and a fashion designer.