1937 Amelia Earhart disappeared with her navigator and co-pilot Fred Noonan in an attempt to circumnavigate the world

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/29/1227574179/amelia-earharts-lost-plane-howland-island

Earhart and Noonan vanished in 1937 while on a quest to circumnavigate the globe. The trip would have made Earhart the first female pilot to fly around the world.

Nearly a century later, neither of their bodies nor their plane have been definitively recovered — becoming one of the greatest mysteries of all time and generating countless theories as to what may have happened.
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The team spotted the plane-shaped object between Australia and Hawaii, about 100 miles off Howland Island, which is where Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were supposed to refuel but never arrived.

The shape of the object in the sonar images closely resembles Earhart's aircraft, a Lockheed Electra, both in size and tail.

Amelia Earhart mystery gets new wrinkle after plane-shaped object found by sub

The potential discovery of Amelia Earhart’s lost plane could shake up everything we know about her disappearance, Graig Graziosi writes

www.independent.co.uk

Approximately 16,000 feet below the Pacific's surface, resting among the silt and marine sediment, Hugin's sonar spotted something unusual; the shape of an airplane.

Deep sea scanning company believes it may have found Amelia Earhart's lost plane
“Well you’d be hard-pressed to convince me that’s anything but an aircraft, for one, and two, that it’s not Amelia’s aircraft,” Deep Sea Vision’s founder, Tony Romeo, said in an interview with NBC's Today show. “There’s no other known crashes in the area, and certainly not of that era in that kind of design with the tail that you see clearly in the image.”
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In 2018, researchers used modern forensics to examine a set of human remains found on Nikumaroro Island in 1940 that were candidates for the remains of Earhart. According to Richard L. Jantz, an anthropology professor at the University of Tennessee, studied the remains and determined that they are likely those of Earhart.

Mr Jantz theorised that Earhart landed her plane on Nikumaroo and died as a castaway on the island, according to The Florida Times-Union.

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https://www.npr.org/2024/01/29/1227574179/amelia-earharts-lost-plane-howland-island

Earhart and Noonan vanished in 1937 while on a quest to circumnavigate the globe. The trip would have made Earhart the first female pilot to fly around the world.

Nearly a century later, neither of their bodies nor their plane have been definitively recovered — becoming one of the greatest mysteries of all time and generating countless theories as to what may have happened.
[...]
The team spotted the plane-shaped object between Australia and Hawaii, about 100 miles off Howland Island, which is where Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were supposed to refuel but never arrived.

The shape of the object in the sonar images closely resembles Earhart's aircraft, a Lockheed Electra, both in size and tail.
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Amelia Earhart mystery gets new wrinkle after plane-shaped object found by sub

The potential discovery of Amelia Earhart’s lost plane could shake up everything we know about her disappearance, Graig Graziosi writes

www.independent.co.uk

Approximately 16,000 feet below the Pacific's surface, resting among the silt and marine sediment, Hugin's sonar spotted something unusual; the shape of an airplane.

Deep sea scanning company believes it may have found Amelia Earhart's lost plane
“Well you’d be hard-pressed to convince me that’s anything but an aircraft, for one, and two, that it’s not Amelia’s aircraft,” Deep Sea Vision’s founder, Tony Romeo, said in an interview with NBC's Today show. “There’s no other known crashes in the area, and certainly not of that era in that kind of design with the tail that you see clearly in the image.”
[...]
In 2018, researchers used modern forensics to examine a set of human remains found on Nikumaroro Island in 1940 that were candidates for the remains of Earhart. According to Richard L. Jantz, an anthropology professor at the University of Tennessee, studied the remains and determined that they are likely those of Earhart.

Mr Jantz theorised that Earhart landed her plane on Nikumaroo and died as a castaway on the island, according to The Florida Times-Union.

I had never heard of the "Date Line theory'

The Circumnavigatorâs Paradox

The International Date Line has confused explorers, navigators, and everyday travelers since humans began circumnavigating the globe nearly ...

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Amelia Earhart’s aircraft believed to be found in deep ocean, could provide clues in her disappearance

A sonar image of the plane was captured in a part of the Pacific ocean west of where Earhart’s projected landing point is believed to be.

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The Date Line theory attributes Earhart’s disappearance to forgetting to turn the calendar back one day as she flew over the International Date Line.

The theory was developed in 2010 by pilot and former NASA employee Liz Smith, who suggested Earhart’s navigator, Fred Noonan, miscalculated the navigation by forgetting to turn back the date from July 3 to July 2 as they flew across the Date Line. The mistake would have created a westward navigational error of 60 miles, according to the release. Romeo, as a private pilot, and his brother believed the theory had merit and investigated the celestial math Smith had used to support her idea.

 

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There were other aircraft with tail twin vertical stabilizers, particularly during
WW2. The Mitsubishi G3M ('Nell") bomber (which had no tail gunner position),
some of which interestingly attacked Howland Island at the start of WW2. Also,
there was the Kawanishi H6K, which had a prominent tail gunner enclosure
projecting between and beyond the tails twin vertical stabilizers;

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Kawanishi_H6K_burning_on_the_water_1944.jpeg/800px-Kawanishi_H6K_burning_on_the_water_1944.jpeg

The U.S. sea planes Martin PBM Mariner and the Consolidated PB2Y
Coronado also had twin vertical stabilizers, as did the Consolidated B-24
Liberator bombers which operated for a period during WW2 from Baker
Island about 70km southwards of Howland Island.

Unfortunately without some indication of scale, it's difficult to judge the
actual size of the aircraft. There's been some comment that the wreck
wings appear to be swept back - I'd caution that, as the front of the
aircraft forward of the wings seems to not be visible, possibly that and
possibly a large part of the wings are covered with seabed sediment.
If you look closely at the aircraft's right wing, considering only the most
'bright' sonar returns, the wing then has a shape more as if it were at a
right angle to the hull (rather than wing being swept back). The aircraft's
outer left wing has a shape as if it were damaged. There appear to be
two bright sonar returns (hard white lines) very close to the hull, which
could suggest engine nacelles very close to the hull. There also appears
to be a bright sonar return (hard white line) extending quite forward of the
aircraft's left wing, possibly an engine nacelle (or a flying boat underwing
collasped pontoon/strut?).
It would have helped if they had said if the area we are seeing is flat
seabed or if the aircraft was on a sloping hill - if the latter, then the aircraft
could have crashed down on it and slid downwards a way, burying its'
forward parts in sediment, with some following sediment behind it also
flowing down to cover some of the wings.

 

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Hopes of finding Amelia Earhart's missing plane are DASHED once again

Experts thought they'd found the aviator's missing plane towards the end of 2023, but it's actually an aircraft-shaped rock formation.

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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'​

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.



Back in January, when Deep Sea Vision released the imagery, Mr Romeo was confident that they'd solved the 87-year-old mystery.

He said: 'You'd be hard-pressed to convince me that's anything but an aircraft, for one, and two, that it's not Amelia's aircraft.'


Wasting no time, the team's second expedition this year used the same Hugin 6000 underwater drone as the first expedition in December 2023.

Sadly, it identified 'an unfortunate rock formation' shaped like an aircraft – meaning the search for the truth once again continues.