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.......................
Seemingly every year or two, someone claims to have solved the mystery of Amelia Earhart. Great way to get clicks.
Are there human remains within the aircraft? Is there anything to compare with for DNA testing?
It’s 16,000 feet deep........................
Agreed. The Earhart story is a lesson to all aspiring aviators that taking shortcuts and not being familiar with your equipment can be fatal.
And that is DEEP. Wow.
That image looks like a swept wing, if a plane at all.
More likely sold before the commercial real estate crash and had plenty of cash to support his hobby.
So it never hurts to improve your chances by doing everything in your power to minimize anything you DO have control over.
When I was a Plane Captain aboard the USS JFK, it was illustrative to watch the pilots doing their pre-flight inspection of the plane.
Some of them would literally kick the tires as they slowly walked around the plane. They would do things that to outside observers would look like they were doing a real pre-flight, but it was apparent that they were a thousand miles away, thinking of home or whatever.
We did have one pilot that stuck out, a great guy who was a Lieutenant at the time, but went to Flight Test school and came back to our squadron with an orange flight suit he wore ever after, a privilege I guess.
He would turn out in later years, long after I was gone, to be the all-time Carrier trap leader for a period of time in the US Navy. I saw an article online that had this picture of him as a Commander around that time:
Funny. He still looks exactly the same there as he did when I served with him.
But the thing about him that stuck out was, when he did his pre-flight inspections, he did it like he really meant it.
When he looked in the tailpipe for cracks, he didn't just shine his light in, do a cursory look, and continue on. He spent time there, pointing his light up near the turbine, circling it, and all the way back, the way a Plane Captain would.
To me, that meant quality.
I view any story about an aviator of any sex who flew long distances across water prior to WWII
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Check out Clyde Pangborn. He did not disappear.
https://www.historylink.org/File/7495
I remember all those claims from back then, even that she was executed by the Japanese. One even claimed her aircraft was found crashed in Canada.
Others claimed she never actually flew the aircraft but was there just for photo purposes.
Ah, yes...I am familiar with that story...thanks for the link.
My point was, the only reason Amelia Earhart’s disappearance was viewed as a great mystery was because she was a woman.
If a guy tried it and disappeared, people would have shrugged their shoulders and said he was lost trying to do something dangerous.
No mystery there.
Somehow all these "near future" extends to years and years and everyone forgets about it. If he believed it really was the plane, every billionaire would be throwing money at a project just to get their name in the headlines by next week.
Is it wrong to laugh?
Bet the hog didn’t sign up for the gig.
Its a whale.
Wings are wrong.
Wings don’t bend backwards, they break off.
If it is a plane, it appears to have swept wings.
Judge Crater and her eloped to Pitcairn island and lived happily ever after.
So what. She was a lousy navigator and paid the ultimate price.
Fred Noonan was her navigator...............
“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.
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