Hopes of finding Amelia Earhart's missing plane are DASHED once again: Sonar image thought to be the wreckage of her aircraft turns out to be a 'bunch of rocks'

Daily Mail UK ^ | November 6, 2024 | Jonathan Chadwick

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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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And the ocean is very big. It contributes to global warming.

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Not with the budget they’ve probably got. I also don’t think it even is down there — I find the Saipan plane-burning story to be plausible.

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Literally no evidence at all has been found, but there’s been a group that is so sure they’ve got the right island that they’ve saddled on every piece of debris they’ve managed to find. And every piece of debris has proved to be unrelated.

[SunkenCiv]

LOL

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The real reason she ran out of fuel is that she took along her train case, and everyone knows those weigh a lot more than the plane case.

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They found Fred’s pocket knife, didn’t they?

They found fragments of one on Gardner Island, but as with every other supposed artifact from Earhart and Noonan there’s no proof as to whether it was one of theirs’. The bits and pieces of stuff found on Gardner are particularly difficult, because only a year after they disappeared the British established a colony on the island that lasted into the 60s, so there’s plenty of Western-made ‘stuff’ from the right era lying around with no inherent connection to Earhart/Noonan.

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It took a Herculean effort by Robert Ballard and his team to find the Titanic on the ocean floor and it was massively larger than the plane in question.

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Body by Fisher

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Hey wait a minute... maybe this was like the Flintstones, and the PLANE was made of rocks...