Have researchers actually found Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane? | BBC News

The mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart’s plane when it went missing 87 years ago has baffled researchers for decades.
But one team believes they may have just found a clue.
Recent sonar imaging, which maps the ocean floor using sound waves, has led the researchers to what they claim is a small aircraft around 4,877m below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
However, some experts aren't convinced this discovery actually is the missing plane.
The Lockheed 10-E Electra went missing near Howland Island in the north Pacific while Earhart and her copilot Fred Noonan were attempting to fly around the world.
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[@RichardJones-et5we]

It's amazing to think people were famous for actually breaking records and having talent..

[@imachickennugget3966]

No it ain't they were and still are

[@imachickennugget3966]

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[@imachickennugget3966]

@user-qb3og5iu3r they weren't millionaires

[@imachickennugget3966]

@user-qb3og5iu3r not they were poor

[@imachickennugget3966]

@user-qb3og5iu3r she made her opturitys

[@askosefamerve]

I hope she's found! She deserves the peace and success she earned.

[@NCSWIC..]

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[@imachickennugget3966]

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[@NCSWIC..]

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[@richardhart9204]

Sweetie, you may technically know how to speak English, but you have yet to learn how to wield it.

[@agneskirsch8335]

She's been dead in the bottom of the ocean for 87 years. It won't get any more peaceful than that.

[@hunterscott3000]

Not that im not hopeful, but yall are aware of the amount of planes littering the floor of the Pacific Ocean? WW2 saw heavy air fighting all across that region.

[@mrcringe-fg6zq]

Yeah, It's either an American Mustang or a Japanese Mitsubishi

[@jenniferhamm4783]

Boats and ships too

[@aroundandround]

Nobody remembers the poor guy who also went down with her.

[@johnroscoe2406]

Will you people stop with your phony culture war nonsense? We're all sick of it.

[@chriscarrol9373]

Went down with her or down on her? English is such a fun language if you switch even one word in a sentence.

[@novavortex7763]

Yeah mostly every one knows who Amelia Earhart is, but Fred is usually forgotten I was just remembered she was not alone.

[@johnroscoe2406]

@@novavortex7763 You don't even care about Fred and never did; you're just doing social media culture war Andrew Tate manosphere nonsense, so please shove your hypocrisy up your ass.

[@albertmarnell9976]

Agreed! The assumptions and smear against her are youthful stupidity, jealousy and the result of pointless brainwashing. Most poor or rich people could not do what she did.@@johnroscoe2406

[@3miria103]

Please give more update on this

[@jmantime]

The plane in the sonar image clearly has " Swept Wings ", it might be an F-86 Sabre or MIG-17 just going by the shape. Also amelia's plane had 2x large engines and this sonar doesn't.

[@Dooguk]

Or the wings are bent back from hitting the water.

[@DriveByShouting]

Take into account that side-scan image is from 16,000ft above the possible aircraft and far from being detailed and the scans are less detailed the further from the transmitter in a reflective, dense, moving environment (Water, Sea Currents Salt Water, these always distort around the edges. Nobody with certainty is able to tell what kind of aircraft it is. The tail looks nothing like a fast mover. Much more like an Electra. Plus if she ditched, the engines over any other aircraft flight surface would take the initial and brunt of the impact being a low wing twin with two stationary propellers (Fuel exhaustion) and those engines/cowl are just about the least hydrodynamic shapes imaginable. They would act as brakes upon impact with the water and the struts/engine cradle and frame would take the brunt of the impact. Then As it sank the two heaviest pieces on the Airframe and the two components most likely to suffer damage in and around their cowling/frame/support/attachment points to the aircraft could have easily separated on its long journey of 16,000ft (More dense resistance pushing/jarring against them during this sequence) to the Ocean Floor, both could easily have separated or began to separate on the surface. I know no US Jets were reported missing in the Early Jet Age either (F-86, F-100, F-101 etc). Odds of it being her? 5,000,000 to 1. But it’s a lead. -12 years of Aviation Structural Engineering, 19 years as an AMT who specializes in airframes, 7 years with the NTSB. 38 years flying, Commercial Rated, CFI-II Flight Instructor. Time to send the Submersibles.

[@holysong2099]

Well, It's not entirely impossible because the leading edge of Amelia's plane was also swept back to some degrees even though the full wing was not. It's actually rather plausible to assume, from a structural standpoint, that only the leading part of the wing that is usually sturdier remained intact while the rest wasted away with time making it appear like a "swept wing" in the SONAR. Besides it's a damaged plane lying 5 Kilometers down the ocean for 80+ years, minor details like engines and these are kind of irrelevant at this point.

[@DriveByShouting]

@@holysong2099 Side-scan creates a very low definition return of an abnormality on the ocean floor. This image is 16,000ft from the Transmitter/Receiver (Traveling a total of 32,000ft sending a wave through a moving liquid, who’s mass changes every foot you descend. Plus there’s sand, silt etc that could be covering any number of things. The lack of engines not being seen protruding from the leading edge of the wing does matter if the argument for it being a Early jet age aircraft is the lack of two Radial engines not being where they were in the 1937 pictures of her Lockheed Electra but not in the low quality side-scan sonar image. If the engines did separate before, after or during it made its 16,000ft trip down those would go straight down. Just as a bowling ball would.The airframe would still have some form of aerodynamics (which are similar to hydrodynamics) and would literally float down making random movements finally coming to rest positioning itself a long, long way from an engine depending on when said engine detached. If you drop two bowling balls from 500ft those are going to impact first, will not have a large amount of lateral movement. Do the same with even a damaged styrofoam glider. It will end up in a completely different location. Or use two marbles and a piece of paper. The greater the mass, the higher the speed, lower the lateral movement. The paper with much less mass will travel slower, interact with the air, wind, and on a unpredictable trajectory that likely couldn’t be repeated twice unlike the marbles. The leading edge of the wing is not the strongest part of a wing. The strongest part of the wing is the ‘Spar’. It is the strongest and most important part of an aircraft. The spar would be located between the leading and trailing edge (Depending on where the Center of Gravity is located on the aircraft) Typically centered and runs longitudinally from one wing, through the cabin or under the floor to the other wing. Stringers run laterally inside the wing, acting as ribs for the aluminum skin to mount to and provide structural support. The Model 10 Electra does have wing sweep in its design, starting at an angle from the cockpit to the wingtips. The front sweep is equal but opposite to the angle running along the trailing edge along the ailerons and flaps. We don’t know it’s an airplane. If it is, we don’t know how much of it is hidden by sand, silt, corrosion. Much less if it’s Earharts Electra. It could be a Beech King Air for all we know at this point. We don’t know at what speed or angle of attack it impacted the water. I would expect the currents and silt to turn an airplane that’s been submerged since 1937 to be scattered about by currents, or decayed in such a way that only the bottom of the aircraft is remaining. People who aren’t around airplanes don’t realize how thin the Aluminum skin is (Think soup can) and how incredibly lightweight aircraft are. There’s reasons you see “NO STEP” stenciled on them. Her aircraft (If ditched due to fuel exhaustion) would stay afloat for quite sometime as the empty fuel tanks that allowed such range would act as air bladders. Once those finally filled with water those could help keep the aircraft intact for an extended duration. (Depending on how much damage the airframe experienced upon making initial impact with the water).

[@fullthrottlegaming1112]

Thanks for the info! Very cool to hear your analysis@@DriveByShouting

[@asadraja2647]

My point of view is there should be no discussion of this before conclusive pics of it. These kinds of discoveries have happened many times before. Why can't they wait until there are better images. I always feel like this is done to drum up interest and attract investors. And conclusive pics may very well prove it is not what it is being claimed to be, there wouldn't be any interest, right? No interviews, no interest from investors. This pic could be anything really. And besides, if it is an aircraft, it clearly has swept wings. Have you seen an electra she was flying? It has straight wings, like a plus sign. A cursory look will tell u that. But everyone keeps peddling this BS

[@redeagleten]

To be fair, the wings COULD have bent back on impact. The back of the plane looks quite bent up too, so you never know. I'll remain optimistic, just in case 😄

[@Shiroi_Neko15]

And the fact that it's sonar sonar takes a few milliseconds to scan so while it's scanning and moving, the image from the sonar will obviously be a bit moved

[@NazriB]

Lies again? American Education Plane Ticket

[@asadraja2647]

@@redeagleten nothing wrong being optimistic. I myself would want it to be found.

[@rileypugh6412]

I hear what you're saying, but teams like this often work with very little funding. So yeah, this is probably to attract interest and investors... but if they don't attract attention to it like in this video, they might not have enough resources/funds to go get the conclusive evidence.

[@larrywilliams6069]

Why do you have to block the end of the video with another video banner?

[@nutsackmania]

because its their video

[@kendexter]

A lot of airplanes was lost in navigation during WW2 . let`s hope this one is the one , enclosure to this mystery would be great

[@themedicalmarvels]

Maybe she defected to china?

[@RealILOVEPIE]

*closure

[@kendexter]

@@RealILOVEPIE yes, edit , I'm out in a blizzard above the artic circle ..lol ..Caught in my car without autocorrection waiting for the road to open

[@imachickennugget3966]

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[@notoriousfly9260]

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[@seratonin7004]

I'm excited every time another clue leads us to answers in the disappearance of Amelia and Fred.

[@albertmarnell9976]

The order of importance of use of taxpayer money is beyond backwards. I see suffering people everyday. They get NOTHING!!!

[@seratonin7004]

@albertmarnell9976 I'm curious. Do you ever have a good day when your comments aren't full of negativity, blame, and vitriol toward others?

[@albertmarnell9976]

Your comment to me is filled with vitriol. You must be young or live in a bubble. This life is short. People out there are suffering and dying while people in power waste money on pointless things. You're a Pollyanna. Stay in your fantasies. Money should not be wasted on so many diversions. I see life as it is. I also know what it is like to be close to death, to know that death is most probable and what that feels like. I freakishly survived. If Earhart knew she was going to die, it is a horrible realization. Open your eyes. Life is a transitory grim affair. How many sets of parents did you see die? @@seratonin7004

[@pipebombpete.6861]

​@@albertmarnell9976cry harder.

[@seratonin7004]

@albertmarnell9976 ahhh you poor delusional soul. Your assumptions make you a fool.

[@user-gn3dh4pv1z]

Not her plane wings are different.

[@cosmicinsane516]

Most likely not, but hey the plane has to be somewhere. It’s probably worth a look with a underwater vehicle, if someone is willing to foot the bill.

[@mrcringe-fg6zq]

They can't even find a HUGE jetliner with modern tracking systems (MH3709) How will they find this?

[@Bonzeaux_Bleuxgrene]

0:42 "They headed West." While showing a map of them heading East. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@djspencer7779]

Suppose he meant east

[@zawadimorrow1650]

Was scrolling for this comment 😅

[@bdixon800]

16,000'? Holy crap, that's deep.

[@deealex1402]

its always fascinating these old cases that havent been solved... i always wonder what happened to these people who were lost in time.

[@rahulbhatia7798]

Well chances are Amelia and Fred were both trapped on a deserted island and died from starvation after surviving a number of days. Even worse they could have met with foul play

[@rklammer]

0:42 is that west is it? Guess journalists don't need to know how to use a compass.

[@jordanmontana4415]

Great story keep us posted

[@RaccoonHenry]

"they headed west" ...are we sure about that? (even the graphic clearly shows the route headed east...)

[@ilovelimpfries]

And yet we still cant find a missing 777.

[@Mythbuster3808]

I'd argue we are more likely to find the electra than the 777. At least with amelia we know the rough area to look. With 370 the possible search area is much bigger. Not to mention the 777 probably disintegrated on impact where as with amelia they would have tried to land gently preserving the fuselage.

[@Dooguk]

Stiil finding pieces of it washing up on the coasts of East Africa and Madagascar ect.

[@Mythbuster3808]

@Dooguk true so I don't think there is much to find in terms of a big object.

[@RoxanneM-]

@BTG07, You know what will make you see things in a different way? Try appreciating the positive things being achieved instead and see what the other side you think is doing better, how they are not. Turn your focus around and things will change. You need facts for this though, remember.

[@Markus_Andrew]

16,000 feet is a pretty forbidding depth. That's about 4,000 feet deeper than the Titanic wreckage. It's a very vague image though, it could be just about anything.

[@georgeide2337]

Yeah after some searches a team concluded it was a coral reef.

[@Markus_Andrew]

@@georgeide2337 Hadn't heard about that, thanks for the info 🙂

[@shawntw1556]

@@Markus_Andrew you hadnt heard because it was sarcasm

[@TheGreyAreaBetween]

I know a lot of people are desperate to believe this is her aircraft, but I personally don’t for a few reasons. Firstly, the wing sweep. Secondly, there are no engine nacelles on either wing. Thirdly, it looks very much like an F-86 Sabre. If it was the Lockheed Electra, why would the rear section of each wing have disappeared. For sure the flaps and ailerons could have snapped off, but there would be only a small section of each wing missing. Instead we have a wing sweep that certainly fits that of the F-86. I’ve seen comments that no other aircraft was known to go down in this area, but I have not been able to pinpoint exactly where it is that the image was taken in order to verify that. Added to that, there are many aircraft whose wreckage remains undiscovered and many more whose wreckage has been discovered in a place far from there they were supposed to have been operating. Given that the depth of this wreckage is known, it should be possible to to calculate the wing span accurately, but none of the reports I have seen so far give any calculations on that so I’m basing my guess hypothesis on the silhouette of an aircraft I feel fits that image far more accurately.

[@DesiGalCrochet]

This is why I love the internet. The analysis of an expert is appreciated on this topic. Thank you sir.

[@TheGreyAreaBetween]

@@DesiGalCrochet Thank you for your kind comment, it is very much appreciated. Something that was added by the discoverer of this wreck is the claim that the wing sweep is actually a distortion due to the motion of the sea and its effect on the boat that was conducting the scan. I would argue a couple of points against this as well. If this was the case, the wings would still have different angles from their width at the body of the aircraft being twice that of the width at the tip of the wing on the Electra. Secondly, I would assume that, if the wing sweep is distorted due to the sea, surely the length of the body would also become more distorted. The question of the engine nacelles remains unanswered. There is an argument that the horizontal stabilisers have the appearance of the twin vertical stabilisers at the end of each horizontal stabiliser. However, this could be accounted for just as easily by the absence of elevators. I cannot say with any sense of certainty what aircraft this actually is since there are elements that do not match my suggestion of the F-86 appearance, such as the lack of sweep on the horizontal stabilisers, but I could claim the same argument of distortion due to the sea conditions so that doesn’t lead me to conclude the rest of the evidence means it must be Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan’s ill fated Lockheed 10-e Electra. I do hope this wreckage is explored further, regardless of its origins.

[@StacieMMeier]

I tend to agree, however, even with that they may have found a pilot lost to sea, finding this, even if it what we both believe would bring some closure to a family. So, there is that.

[@dkstudioart]

Seems like the discovery of a plane shape at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean is by statistical probably not Earhart's. It could be, but the odds that it's one of the thousands of planes lost in the Pacific during WWII is much higher.

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

No Sabers were lost around Howland Island.

[@MichaelVanHeemst]

How many times have they found it?

[@okrajoe]

I remain skeptical, but definitely worth another visit to the sonar anomaly site.

[@liberareview3567]

The engines are not there... Not the plane...

[@model101t800]

I really hope they have found her, but when I look at it critically, the scan looks like a plane but I missing the two engine nacelles that are so typical for an M10 Electra

[@HolySoliDeoGloria]

0:44 headed west?!? That's an easterly circumnavigation. What context did I miss?

[@FrankAgyekum-lr8mw]

Amelia and heart is the most kindest person I've ever seen ❤️💪

[@thefisherking78]

Fascinating stuff. Let's see what comes in next 🤞

[@dualiper]

any links to the guys that made the discovery?

[@skullsaintdead]

16,000ft and it remained intact...? I doubt it's anything other than an anomaly, I dunno, rocks or something.

[@RealUlrichLeland]

As long as the pressure on the inside and outside of the plane equalised before it got too deep it's entirely possible that the pressure wouldn't damage it much at all. The reason that titan submersible imploded last year was because the inside was sealed and so a huge pressure difference built up. With this plane it only would've taken the windows breaking and the plane flooding to equalise the pressure to prevent it violently imploding.

[@skullsaintdead]

@@RealUlrichLeland Yes, true but its only a metal frame, a small plane, i'd be surprised if she were able to make the water ditching intact, hence why it surprises me that it wouldn't have broken apart upon hitting the water. It's the Pacific, not the Hudson or the Neva, the waves would rip it open (e.g. Air Ethiopia 961, the hijacking & attempted ditching caught on tape), esp in poor weather. I just don't see how it could of remained as a recognisable 'plane' shape once it hit the water & then dropped to 16,000ft, almost 90 years on, I doubt it would have equalised evenly. Wonder what the botanists & marine biologists would say with respect to the sea life at those depths eating the carcass of a plane? Just seems like wishful thinking at this early stage, though I'm certainly no expert.

[@nlald]

“They headed west.” Flight plan heads east.

[@GexMax]

How to stretch out one new Sonar Image into a 3 minute long video that shows the image for a total of 10sec...

[@user-f5xt2op9t]

The rest is called setup. Its part of telling a story and what makes it different from just showing a picture.

[@victorriverieulx2297]

you're so right! let's get you hooked up with a short form, bright red subtitle, 3 subway surfer gameplays in the corner, brainrot video.

[@michaelhill6451]

Whenever the title of a video is a question, the answer is, "No.".

[@annaczgli2983]

Audio too low

[@toasterhavingabath6980]

Turn up your volume

[@sundager8735]

No, it’s not her plane, it’s a grainy picture, if you take a photo of her plane, compare it to that the center is two wide, and it’s well known as she crashed land at Gardner Island, where she and her plane dissolved from the elements and time

[@novavortex7763]

I want to believe She's somewhere in the Delta quadrant of our galaxy living on a distant world not so different from earth, maybe one day a female captain of some ship will find her alive and well.

[@user-tf3dt6wv3g]

Voyager 😂 my firm belief is that ships like in star trek will simply scan planets one day and uncover all such historical mysterious merly to set the historical records permently straight. We will have a strange kind of ocd about perfect record keeping with our level of technology and mystery unraveling

[@martinlutherbling424]

She's one of the "37's" that are in suspended animation on the other side of the galaxy.

[@calumcreasey]

Why are you asking us?

[@victorvandillen5297]

The plane they are looking at has stepped wings, more like a fighter

[@gap9992]

Swept

[@harryvlogs7833]

That image isn't proof you can barely even make out its a plane yet alone her plane

[@SS-gu6hs]

Haven't they actually found it about 6 times now?

[@chriscarrol9373]

Well after backers give you money better get them some publicity. Kinda like archeology in Egypt. YOU better find something after how much I gave you????

[@albertmarnell9976]

Government appropriation too often piss money away that could be used for the citizens. It is up to Congress to appropriate properly. They never do. People homeless and suffering in the U.S..

[@irishguy200007]

Her last words received were "wait" which could imply that she observed land? The question is what she was looking at.

[@lilyabramowitz9604]

She is also the first person to fly to Hawaii and back solo

[@thegaspoweredjohnnyjohn3972]

That’d be crazy if they actually found it, I got goosebumps when my friend told me about it

[@AmesiesCorner]

Mitsubishi G3M "Nell" medium bomer?

[@steampunkstar_raisin]

🗣 She survived and was on board Flight 370. She was the oldest pilot in history when she disappeared at age 116. #116

[@steampunkstar_raisin]

Thank you! I appreciate the compliment...@@MemeSFX

[@fabricatedreality8218]

The plane they found looks different. Wings are swept back and Amelia’s plane’s wings look straight.

[@gbkiller007]

You do know that 90 years of nature reclaiming the plane would have left nothing plane like in shape? Look at a car left for just 40 years in a natural environment and it is mainly metal.

[@MrCarlos93B]

Every time someone finds a 2 engine airplane in the jungle of an island they think it is Amelia. This is no different, except under water. I’m pretty sure there are lots of wrecks under the sea in the South Pacific.

[@Bobtowngarden]

The swept back wings are incorrect.

[@majorrsole7355]

If it is an aircraft in that blurry image, it looks like it has swept wings and would more likely be an early jet aircraft. Incredible find, but i dont think its amelia.

[@mrcringe-fg6zq]

Most likely an American F-86 Sabre , or a Soviet Mikoyan MiG-15 , both look strikingly similar.

[@uthumbandara1406]

They found Amelia Earhart before GTA 6

[@LoveMaskedBandits]

Did they also find her companion and plane too? I'm older with several major health issues. Can't recall. Saw something several years back that they found her remains. Lastly, I don't play games anymore. Had to Google what GTA 6 was.

[@user-mc9om5di1f]

Don't hold your breath on this.

[@pranititiwari6525]

🙏🙏🎉

[@vipertwenty249]

It would be great if it is their aircraft, but the outline on the sonar image looks more like an F86 Sabre. Has anyone researched whether swept wing fighters similar to that were ever based on that island or used it as an emergency landing strip? Might not be the F86 - could be something else that looks broadly similar like the US Navy Panther.

[@claytonberg721]

Howland was used prior to 1941 but the japanese leveled it at the beginning of the war. It was never more than a rudimentary airstrip.

[@Thomas1701E]

Agreed. The Lockheed Electra 10E didn't have swept wings. Although, I can't figure out how an F-86 Sabre would end up that far out in the Pacific Ocean.

[@vipertwenty249]

@@Thomas1701E Neither can I. Bear in mind the US navy had aircraft of broadly similar outline and the sonar image is extremely fuzzy, so could it be a naval aircraft? Since the island had an airstrip, then regardless of whether it was in use or not an aircraft running out of fuel might have tried to reach it and not made it. Either way, it doesn't look like an Electra.

[@MrCarlos93B]

There was a naval version of the F-86 used on carriers in the 1950s. This was back when fighter planes cost $80K and they would chuck them overboard if someone bent one in a carrier landing - after removing spare parts and engine.

[@vipertwenty249]

@@MrCarlos93B Oh good point! Could be nothing more dramatic than that.

[@mrdarbab]

now let's find db cooper and hoffa.

[@joeyhelean7584]

“Headed west” but the graphic shows them going east?

[@toucheturtle2707]

I suspect the person writing this has confused the first attempt Amelia and Fred made (flying West), which ended in the ground loop in Hawaii, to their second attempt (flying East).

[@jonjon9047]

The silly flashing background behind the gfx is unnecessary

[@jsmariani4180]

There is nothing new here that wasn't in the news.

[@davecampbell5176]

There is a good KZbin video from a old time US Airforce Navigator. He gives a very good talk on disappearance.

[@SJR_Media_Group]

Former Boeing.... Aircraft Aluminum is very susceptible to corrosion from salt water. Not a single rivet is left of aircraft.

[@islasmith5411]

That must of been tirng

[@alhorn2664]

They have found something they claim "could be" her plane.

[@irishguy200007]

How could these bones be lost?

[@azzir325]

I really don't need 7 thousand videos and news stories telling me they :might" have found Earhart's plane. One is enough. Next video should have the actual photos, thank you.

[@AldoMaquial-yh3kc]

Earhart was such a pioneer, would be so cool if they could solve the mystery after all this time.

[@shakerman55]

Get back to us when they have positive proof. Pictures of the actual plane, and or pieces. Too much speculation just for views.

[@ownSystem]

Looks like it now time to go down and see if it is

[@PKCP60]

What a relief to all those who knew her and are probably dead. Maybe their grandchildren care.

[@billbright1755]

Find out what the blip actually is.

[@nlald]

Video starts at 2:40.

[@keithrosenberg5486]

Probably not. Why didn't they use better sonar? That image could be of anything anything, like a rocky outcrop though a WWII aircraft also comes to mind.

[@LoveMaskedBandits]

I saw a vid stating they already found their remains, along with the plane years ago.

[@Phoenix38m]

I have my reservations about this...Titanic was miraculously found in cold north atlantic ocean at 3200m,,,over 17000 feet.while 3/4 of the ship landed more or less intact..That ship was made of tens of thousands of tons of material to find...i look at that image of what looks roughy like an intact plane lying in 16000 feet of ocean in the tropics....and I just have a hard time believing that a craft that small and that light would settle to the bottom of the ocean looking that intact at those pressures.

[@omcbob37]

I've followed the Earhart story for some 30 years and I won't be convinced this is the real deal until the submersibles can get down there and get some better images. If it is the Electra, the wings were clearly damaged during the impact with the water and then pushed further back during the long descent to the bottom. The image in the lower left corner could possibly be the cockpit separated from the main fuselage and the tail section in the main image does possibly seem to show the twin vertical stabilizers of the Electra. I haven't yet seen any discussion of how this discovery some 100 miles from their destination of Howland Island squares up with the evidence (albeit circumstantial) found by TIGHAR in their multiple searches of Gardner Island (Nikumaroro) some 400 miles from Howland - a piece of aircraft skin, parts of a woman's shoe, a makeup jar of the kind known to be used by Earhart, a sextant box of the type used by Fred Noonan, the distress signals heard from Earhart after she disappeared, etc.. For now, this latest find is just another possible lead in the mystery, but we need conclusive imagery.

[@georgiosdem8443]

Legendary female aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart only wanted to fly...

[@JeffHenry-cq3is]

Lots of planes in the pacific

[@Shadowbermuda1]

It ain't real news until they actually take photos. This image could be anything.

[@candacevanata910]

Years ago I saw a documentary on Amelia . It went all the way back to her as a young lady pilot They said in the documentary that she was horrible pilot . So , I do have to wonder if that is true because look what happened .

[@andreanaylor4773]

She was going to find out the earth is not how it's mapped out.

[@st2en]

“They headed west”??? Looks a lot more like east.

[@StevenYoungcaptual]

Click Bait

[@iowa61]

No.

[@soppingclam]

She was my mates Grandmother in Australia.

[@bobbressi5414]

I think we all need to take a beat. That could be an electra. Or it may be a DC3/C47. It could be something else entirely. We do not know what it is so maybe we dont assume it is Emelia's lost Electra til we get a closer look.

[@xiaoka]

Short answer - no.

[@crewchief212]

The sonar image is most likely a rock or coral.

[@TheDemonarta]

'They headed west'

[@timking2931]

I reckon she flew over Australia and went u know what that looks allright to me and lived out her days quietly down under👌

[@facitenonvictimarum174]

Hope she's okay! The "Welcome Home Amelia Earhart Committee" is still waiting for her.

[@israel_started_it_ALL_in_1947]

ok

[@61Slughi]

Won't know if it's her plane until we get a camera down there. Right now it's all talk, talk, talk.

[@brettherold87]

#rememberFredNoonan

[@andreaghalan1]

Hi

[@Yankee_Doodle_Dandy]

Could just be a B-24

[@user-by7yh2lp1e]

Wow interesting 🧐

[@davecampbell5176]

I would be surprised if its 100 miles. I think 50 miles at the most.

[@mnoxman]

Is there some new expedition? I think the last was by Ballard's people back in 2017? That expedition didn't seem to produce much evidence.

[@skalarwellenreiter]

Everybody knows she is in the deltra quadrant.

[@SalmanovGadzhimurad-pj9qq]

Умение отшивать

[@Tymbus]

Total clickbait. No answer.