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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 ocean explorer claims to have solved aviation’s greatest mystery by finding the wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s missing plane. The American aviator’s aircraft vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 during her attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world. Her unexplained fate has since become a source of widespread speculation as accident investigators were unable to locate her body or any wreckage.

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...