Huge breakthrough in search for Amelia Earhart's missing plane as downed aircraft seemingly appears on the ocean floor in new SONAR image: Experts are 'intrigued' by impressive clue 87 years after her mysterious disappearance

Daily Mail ^ | 1/27/24 | Alice Wright

[Libloather]

A South Carolina man believes he may have discovered the plane Amelia Earhart was flying when she vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.

Former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Tony Romeo turned his fascination with the legendary pilot into an adventure when he embarked on an ambitious search for Earhart's lost plane.

Romeo, who sold his commercial property investments to fund his search, managed to take a sonar image of an aircraft-shaped object on the ocean floor in December.

Earhart and her Earhart's Lockheed 10-E Electra vanished at the height of her fame, a mystery that has spawned decades of searches and conspiracy theories.

Earhart's record-breaking run as a pioneering pilot at the very beginning of the aviation age made her an international celebrity.

She became the first woman to fly solo, nonstop across the continental US and the Atlantic, and the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to the mainland over the Pacific.

'This is maybe the most exciting thing I'll ever do in my life,' Romeo told the Wall Street Journal.

'I feel like a 10-year-old going on a treasure hunt.'

'For her to go missing was just unthinkable,' Romeo said.

Adding: 'Imagine Taylor Swift just disappearing today.'

Romeo spent $11 million to fund the trip and buy the high-tech gear needed for the search including an underwater 'Hugin' drone manufactured by the Norwegian company Kongsberg.

The expedition launched in in early September from Tarawa, Kiribati, a port near Howland Island, with a 16-person crew aboard a research vessel.

In outings that lasted 36 hours each, the unmanned submersible scanned 5,200 square miles of ocean floor.

[Macho MAGA Man]

Not sure. I thought the article said the object was located within 100 miles from Howland Island. Nikumaroro Island is 395 miles distance to Howland Island.

[Bikkuri]

"Imagine Taylor Swift just disappearing today."

I keep hoping...

[pops88]

My late husband, a commercial pilot who grew up in CA, said that for years she flew out of a small airport there after her supposed disappearance when he was growing up. He said it was common knowledge there, but CA was quite different in the 60s and of course, no internet. I had no reason to not believe my husband.

[Vigilanteman]

Looks like a wonderful aircraft. She could have used less of an aircraft and hired a navigator who wasn’t an alcoholic.

[Paal Gulli]

The Lockheed Electra didn’t have swept wings.

[Drew68]

This article is total Daily Fail retardation.

A.). Nobody is looking for Amelia Earhart's plane.

B.) Nobody is "intrigued" by anomalies found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean because there aren't any.

[DouglasKC]

"Adding: 'Imagine Taylor Swift just disappearing today.'"

Done!

[Drago]

??
“A & B”: Tony Romeo of SC is “nobody”:

https://www.postandcourier.com/news/special_reports/amelia-earhart-search-tony-romeo-deep-sea-vision/article_3a42e6a8-a0e5-11ee-a942-77a1581d6b19.html

https://www.deepseavision.com

[linMcHlp]

bttt

[wardaddy]

Congratulations and warm hug

I salute you!

[Does so]

“Wing shape looks too modern.”

Analysts would have noted that. Could be perspective as viewed tipped (on the bottom) at an angle. The twin tail configuration eliminates many of WWII “lost” aircraft.

[IncPen]

I imagine Taylor Swift disappearing daily.

She’s not disappearing, but her clothes are… more fake news….

[21twelve]

I read a very interesting and well-documented book about Earhart. It made a huge deal of the misscommunication that may have occurred. NUMEROUS things that all added up. IIRC she took over some of the radio controls for that trip. It was set up for both radio and morse code - with radio to be used at the top of the hour, and morse on the half hour (or something like that).

BUT - the radio based on Howland Island was out of service - so they used a radio that had come in from Hawaii and was anchored at Howland. BUT - the ship's clock was set to Hawaii time, which was a half-hour off from Howland Island time.

So she was sending morse code while they were listening to radio. (Plus something to do with the time that the plane was using - which was from its last departure).

This was all brought up in the investigation, which is why they went to Greenwich Mean Time thereafter.

It would have been relatively easy for her to know when she got to the same longitude as the island, and then she would use the radio and/or morse code signal strength to determine if she was north or south of the island. (Fly south, signal gets weaker, island is to the north). But if you aren't getting any signals....

[Does so]

Thanks for those images.

My WWII SW Pacific Dad was intrigued by this loss, but he died 9 years ago. He was a PBY-5 pilot, with Lou Conter (Arizona survivor, 102 yrs old) as his co-pilot.

The number of “lost” WWII planes is astounding. Here is one page (of three) cataloging losses by serial or hull number:

https://www.joebaugher.com/navy_serials/thirdseries1.html

[21twelve]

My old man died way too young (72) but was on a mine sweeper in the SW Pacific. He never saw any action but had some stories. He said the best times were when he got to go up in the PBY planes (he had wanted to be a pilot) and they would fly over the various islands. Looking for downed pilots and supplying the natives (scouts?) with stuff iirc.

“And the women - they didn’t have any tops on! We’d fly low over the beach and drop candy and food to them.”

[linMcHlp]

Thanks to an Old Photograph, an Explorer Believes He Can Solve the Mystery of Amelia Earhart’s Disappearance Once and for All

EXCERPTS:

But in 2012, Ballard was shown a photo taken by Eric Bevington, a British officer, in October 1937, three months after Earhart’s disappearance. It pictures Nikumaroro Island, one of the Pacific’s mostly uninhabited Phoenix Islands, part of the Micronesian nation of Kiribati. A tiny speck poking out of the water on the edge of the photo, known as “The Bevington Object,” is believed by some to be the landing gear of Earhart’s plane, a Lockheed model 10-E Electra.

The shoreline runs into the ocean and then there is a shelf, in effect, beyond which (further into the ocean) the depth is remarkable.

Beginning with that shelf and then the area of depth - that is where I would first search, for the engines, using a rover, a sub, etc.

The Electra's fuel tanks - inside the cabin - may have acted as floats. I suspect that the aircraft may have floated offshore and to some distance. Depending on the sea state activities over the days after a possible landing on the shore - seen in the photo above.

[linMcHlp]

bttt

[Macho MAGA Man]

I remember when that photo appeared. It’s intriguing to say the least.

[minnesota_bound]

FTA: Adding: ‘Imagine Taylor Swift just disappearing today.’

I am sure the Kansas City Chiefs fans would not mind seeing that headline!

[Does so]

Landing gear was among the first objects to float ashore of John F. Kennedy Jr’s Piper aircraft crash at Martha’s Vinyard in 1999.