Posted on 01/28/2024 5:52:00 AM PST by Red Badger
One of the plaguing mysteries among 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 has been trying to crack the longtime mystery of Earnart’s plane whereabouts, and a recent sonar image snapped by Romeo reveals he may be close to cracking the longtime mystery.
Romeo, the founder of the exploration company Deep Sea Vision, deployed a drone 16,500 under the ocean in Tarawa, Kiribati, in an attempt to find Earhart’s plane.
The drone captured sonar images that were the same shape as a Lockheed Electra, the same model plane Earhart flew during her last flight.
Romeo didn’t want to give any false hope and shared, “I’m not saying we found her,” but made it clear he remains very optimistic and plans to do a secondary search in the near future to see if sonar images can pick up the plane’s tail number.
Per The New York Post:
For dozens of explorers, Amelia Earhart is the one who got away — seemingly permanently.
However, a commercial real estate investor from Charleston, South Carolina, believes he might finally have found a vital piece of the 87-year-old puzzle.
The pioneering female aviator, a household name at the time, disappeared with her flight navigator on what was to be a record-setting trip around the world in 1937.
Despite many attempts and millions of dollars spent over nine decades, neither Earhart’s remains nor the wreckage of her plane have ever definitively been located.
But Tony Romeo, a pilot and a former US Air Force intelligence officer who sold all his commercial properties to pay for his search, told The Wall Street Journal he thinks he found part of Earhart’s plane resting on the ocean floor.
Deep Sea Vision @DeepSeaVision · Follow The hunt for Amelia Earhart.
Deep Sea Vision scanned more than 5,200 square miles of ocean floor with a 16-person crew and the Kongsberg Discovery HUGIN 6000 before finding what could be the legendary American aviator’s Lockheed 10-E Electra.
VIDEO AT LINK.......................
Personally, I have heard about this “mystery” for years and don’t understand the obsession with it. She either crashed in the ocean or on an island. If an island, she was never found. The exact where of it almost does not matter to me.
I have heard some speculate she was somehow captured by the Japanese. That is the most interesting of the possibilities. However, if that was the case, you would think it would have come out somehow after the War.
But Tony Romeo, a pilot and a former US Air Force intelligence officer who sold all his commercial properties to pay for his search,
That could be a plane but we won’t know until we lay eyes on it. Saw another article about this and the water there is rather deep. I think it said 5,000 meters?
She kind of reminds me of that YouTube babe from Tennessee who kept doing selfies of her trying to fly a plane. Didn’t end well for her either.
It’s on the tarmac right next to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370….on fantasy island. The plane…the plane.
Wow! Again! She sure left a lot of planes scattered about the place. CAnt wait to read the article.
This story has never tweaked my interest, and I am an aviation enthusiast.
I always viewed this story of Amelia Earhart the same way I view any story about an aviator of any sex who flew long distances across water prior to WWII and disappeared...things happen, and in those aircraft, they aren’t unexpected.
Yep............Need a carbon fiber submarine to go look at it.................
lots of potential grant monies...book opprotunities, movie and TV royalties....’cmon man ..get with the program!!! /s
Sounds like the kind of guy who looks for coins and buttons on Oak Island. And gets routinely abducted and probed by space aliens. Sounds like he needs a TV show or 3 to fund his lifestyle.
“She either crashed in the ocean or on an island.”
This has always been mildly interesting to me as my mom was an aviator in the 40s. The burning question about why is there no evidence of Earhart and Noonan’s remains was addressed once in a speculative video that suggested that they crashed close to an island and managed to crawl to shore. Without food or fresh water they soon expired.
The ‘no remains’ part was answered by suggesting that crabs consumed the bodies. To prove this point the researchers that made the video placed a hog carcass on the beach and recorded what happened. The crabs literally ate every molecule of the hog carcass - hair, skin, bones, everything in very short time, less than a day or two.
You can do some very odd things once an obsession grabs you.
If ocean Crabs, schrimp, lobster made short work of them, tiny fishes nibbled away.
If land those same crabs, flies and larva and perhaps coconut crabs.
She possessed less than stellar navigation skills and navigator she hired was a drunk. The plane is niw covered in corals and other growth.
The “discovered” but not recovered is though to be an engine cowling. I understand that the research can’t seem to relocate the spot.
If it is that particular cowling, rocks and shoals, tides, and currents could have placed it many miles from the actual crash site.
I would amazed of any link or association with Earhardt let alone a discovery.
There is a whole lotta planes that went down in the area in WWII.
She is my 12th cousin, once removed - I have always followed any news on her. Someone was operating a ham radio when AE may have gone down and heard a woman come across the airwaves. There was something about a man who may have had a head injury and speculation that it was AE on that channel. Then there was something about her in a Japanese prison camp and then something about her plane being found several years ago - we will probably never know.
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2014 - Gdynia, Poland - Douglas A-20 recovered from salt water - links:
https://wrakibaltyku.pl/en/news/13,wrak-bombowca-douglas-a-20-juz-na-powierzchni-13.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2783437/Rare-Second-World-War-American-bomber-exceptional-value-retrieved-bottom-Baltic-Sea-remarkably-good-condition.html
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That Douglas A-20 was found by Nord Stream 2 AG employees:
https://divers24.com/mystery-of-the-wreck-of-the-douglas-a-20-boston-bomber-in-the-baltic-sea/
EXCERPT:
The Douglas A-20 bomber was built in the USA and delivered to the Soviet Union under Lend-Lease. It was then assigned to the 51st Mine-Torpedo Aviation Regiment of the Naval Air Force of the Soviet Baltic Fleet. On 18 September 1944, the aircraft attacked the German freighter M/S Moltkefelt, which was sailing in the escort of the minesweeper M 151. The anti-aircraft fire from the minesweeper proved to be accurate and effective. As a result the pilot Gusman Miftahudinov, who commanded the aircraft, had to launch it.
The entire crew of three, consisting of pilot Miftahudinov, gunner/radio operator Gleb Lokalov and navigator Yuri Aksenov, left the sinking machine and boarded a life raft. They then drifted in the raft for several days until they reached the Åland Archipelago. Near Kökar Island, they were rescued by the Finnish coastguard from Motor Yacht unit MP-103.
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That image looks more MiG-15, F-86 than Lockheed. The engine pylons are also nowhere to be seen.
NOT Amelia’s aircraft, IMHO. More likely something early jet age.
“The exact where of it almost does not matter to me.”
But it does to a lot of people, who do not really care to be constrained by your lack of interest.
One evening at a bar in the Ginza district in Tokyo, my friend was having dinner and drinks with a group when Genda came over and drew my friend aside to meet someone: a former Japanese officer who claimed to have been in charge of the firing squad that executed Amelia Earhart on Saipan. My friend heard and believed the story he was told that evening.
Yet I am not at all sure the story was true. Too many times I have read or been told lies about events in history by supposed witnesses or participants. Indeed, to make matters worse, the received version of history is never complete or accurate, so there is often enough doubt to give scope to inventions of one sort or another and to revisions to history as new evidence is discovered.
Indeed, it is even possible that Earhart and Noonan survived a crash at sea and were captured by the Japanese, only to eventually die by execution on Saipan, just as my friend was told.
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