A pilot and former US Air Force intelligence officer believes a photograph he took with sonar on a high-tech unmanned submarine may finally solve one of America’s greatest mysteries: What happened to famed pilot Amelia Earhart when she was at the height of her fame.
Many people, including Tony Romeo, have begun searching for Amelia Earhart’s unique Lockheed 10-E Electra aircraft. The plane, its famous pilot and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in July 1937 while attempting to fly around the world.
The Wall Street Journal reported that their expedition, which used a high-tech unmanned submersible drone called “Hugin”, made by the Norwegian company Kongsberg, and a research crew of 16, began in Tarawa, Kiribati, in September last year and covered 5,200 square miles of ocean floor.
The team searching for Earhart’s plane in 2009 said on Twitter that after their 2,500-square-mile search near nearby Howland Island.
Romeo believes he has taken a big step towards answering important questions about where the famous pilot disappeared after searching through decades of clues and possible clues to her location, such as the “timeline theory”.
This plane that went missing in 1937 has just been found and unravels a spooky mystery
