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Searchers Thought They Found Earhart’s Plane Jon Hicks - Getty Images Early in 2024, ocean exploration company Deep Sea Vision claimed to have located what could be Amelia Earhart’s lost plane.
Amelia Earhart is photographed with her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, the aircraft she used in her attempted flight around the world. Earhart and the plane went missing on July 2, 1937.
Amelia Earhart is seen with her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, the last plane she flew before declared missing at sea. - GL Archive/Alamy Stock Photo Earhart’s mysterious disappearance
But in July 1937, and with only 7,000 miles of her trip remaining, Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared after making a stop in New Guinea. They had already flown 22,000 miles and were en ...
A team led by Deep Sea Vision used an underwater drone to scan more than 5,200 square miles of ocean floor.
Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan. Speculation on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan has continued since their disappearance in 1937. After the largest search and rescue attempt in history up to that time, the U.S. Navy concluded that Earhart and Noonan ditched at sea after their plane ran out of fuel; this "crash and sink theory" is the most widely accepted explanation.
An Oregon-based archeologist is the latest scientist attempting to find Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane and solve the baffling 88-year mystery surrounding her and flight navigator Fred Noonan ...
Additionally, had Japanese officials found Earhart, they would have had substantial motivation to rescue and return her, considering her fame. [10] The claims of a U.S. government cover-up also came under criticism; the documentary prominently mentions "a report dated January 7, 1939 that Earhart was a prisoner in the Marshall Islands."