Posted on 11/06/2024 1:49:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv
An 87-year-old quest to find Amelia Earhart's missing plane looked like it had finally come to an end earlier this year.
Following an extensive expedition, explorers at South Carolina firm Deep Sea Vision said they'd found an 'aircraft-shaped object' in the same region of the Pacific where the legendary aviator vanished in 1937.
However, a second expedition now reveals the object is not an aircraft at all, but simply a bunch of rocks.
Tony Romeo, founder of Deep Sea Vision, said in a statement: 'This outcome isn't what we hoped for...'
Deep Sea Vision set off on its initial search in September 2023 in an area of the Pacific to the west of Earhart's planned destination, the remote Howland Island.
The crew spent 90 days searching 5,200 square miles of the Pacific Ocean floor – 'more than all previous searches combined'.
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Hope she’s okay
LOL!
Give it up! She’s dead, but you can still buy her luggage.
Oh those tricky rocks!
LOL! You’re bad!
I had the same problem as Mr. Romeo when I discovered the real Acropolis in 1961.
I thought it had been pretty much determined that she and Fred found themselves marooned on a particular small island and met an unfortunate fate in the sand crabs indigenous to the island.
They found Fred’s pocket knife, didn’t they?
I live near Wal Mart ground zero (Bentonville, AR) and the airport there is named after Louise Thaden. She was an aviatrix who flew with Earhart. Ever hear of her? didn’t think so, because she never got lost.
This is sounding more and more like another research grant scam. Hold out hope for a discovery but never find it. “We just need another million or two....”
Most likely the plane is a mile down covered in whale shyt. But the use of clever arguments can get philanthropists to toss out a few more shekels here and there. The never ending payola, er I mean search for Amelia’s plane.
Where does one find Ainsley Earhart? LOL
Me too but a bit later in 1996.
They finally found Charlie Brown’s Holloween bag.
Nobody is going to find her plane. It’s long been demolished and the pieces so overgrown with coral it’ll make it impossible to find outside of using a HUGE metal detector at the bottom of the ocean.
Most likely, yes, but folks are still trying to find definitely proof.
In the Bimbo Diectory?
They will never find the plane because it’s at the bottom of the ocean.
Saw a program on Pan Ams China Clippers. It is said she was killed by the Japanese scouting location for Pan Am transition points in the Pacific, the operation through Pan Am was actually funded by the US military because all of the requirements a clipper would need as a stopping/transition point would make an ideal military installation, if needed.
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