An ocean explorer has given further details about a sonar image that he says has possibly solved the mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance.
Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, disappeared on a flight over the Pacific on July 2, 1937, while trying to become the first pilot the circle the globe at the equator. No trace of her or her navigator, Fred Noonan, has ever been found and their disappearance has sparked numerous theories.
But now, Tony Romeo, the founder of ocean exploration company Deep Sea Vision, says he has captured an image of what could be Earhart’s Lockheed 10-E Electra at the bottom of the Pacific about 100 miles off Howland Island, where Earhart and Noonan were supposed to stop to refuel but never reached.
The image reveals “contours that mirror the unique dual tails and scale of [Earhart’s] storied aircraft,” the company said in a news release on Monday.
If what the image shows is actually Earhart’s plane, it would support the longstanding theory that the legendary aviator ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean near Howland Island.
Romeo and his team used the “Date Line Theory” to aid their search, the release said. The theory was developed by pilot and former NASA employee Liz Smith, who suggested that Noonan miscalculated his celestial star navigation by forgetting to turn back the date from July 3 to July 2 as they flew over the International Date Line, creating a navigation error of 60 miles.
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