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Deep Sea Vision claims to have discovered a plane in the ocean whose dimensions match with the Lockheed Electra, a twin-engine monoplane in which American aviator Emilia Earhart went on a trip around the world more than 85 years ago and mysteriously disappeared.
Deep Sea Vision, an underwater search company, says it used an echo sounder to capture images of the aircraft during a 90-day expedition last year – 4.5 km below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
To confirm the assumption, the company plans to return to the discovery site for further research, says Deep Sea Vision founder and former US Air Force intelligence officer Tony Romeo. At the same time, identifying a find and relocating it can take years.
The 16-person Deep Sea Vision team set sail from the island of Kiribati, about 2,000 km south of Hawaii, in September. In three months they examined about 13 thousand square meters. km. the Pacific Ocean floor using an autonomous underwater vehicle called the HUGIN 6000, which can peer to depths of almost 6 km.
Deep Sea Vision used an echo sounder to detect an image of an anomaly on the ocean floor that resembles Amelia Earhart's plane.
The expedition analyzed the data and captured an image of the object with “contours reflecting the unique twin tails and scale of the legendary Earhart aircraft”
“The whereabouts of Earhart, her navigator and her plane remain one of the greatest mysteries of our time,” says Mindy Love Pendergraft, executive director of the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum.
Amelia Earhart was an American aviator and one of the first female aviators who sought to fly the longest route around the world, staying as close to the equator as possible.
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In March 1937, having received a twin-engine Lockheed Electra monoplane for her birthday, Earhart made her first attempt at travel, which was immediately unsuccessful because the landing gear could not withstand the weight of the aircraft overloaded with fuel. After a major overhaul, which took 2 months, the plane finally took off – Earhart was accompanied by navigator Fred Noonan.
Amelia Earhart with her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra aircraft, on which she tried to fly around the world
By the beginning of July, the crew had successfully covered 80% of the route – across the Atlantic, equatorial Africa, Arabia, India and Southeast Asia (some of the 28 stages of the flight were officially registered as world records). On July 2, Amelia and Fred took off from Lae, a town on the coast of Papua New Guinea, and headed to the small Howland Island, located in the central Pacific Ocean, where, by order of President Roosevelt, a specially built runway was built.
Officials and the press were waiting for the plane, and the Coast Guard patrol ship Itasca was located off the coast, periodically maintaining radio contact with the crew, which was already unstable. The last message received from Earhart sounded like this:
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“Our course is 157—337… I repeat… I repeat… We are moving along the north-south line…”
Judging by the strength of the radio signals, the plane was supposed to appear over Howland any minute, but it was never seen again.
Dozens of years of searching until today have not brought a final result. Some suggested that the plane ran out of fuel and sank in the Pacific Ocean, others talk about an emergency landing on a remote island, where a skeleton similar to Earhart's physique was later found.
Earhart and Noonan with a map of the Pacific Ocean, which shows the route plan their last flight. Photo: Bettmann archive
Unraveling Earhart's fateful flight was Romeo's (who grew up in a family of pilots) first goal when he founded Deep Sea Vision in 2022. He and his team based their search strategy on the “date boundary theory,” which some researchers claim explains Earhart's disappearance.
The theory states that when Amelia and Noonan crossed the International Date Line, the navigator miscalculated, sending them about 60 nautical miles off course.
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