Some explorers from Deep Sea Vision company They believe they’ve located pioneer Amelia Earhart’s planeWhat may have been the plane from which the pilot disappeared in the Pacific Ocean in 1937 was captured by sonar on the sea floor.
In a message published on Instagram, Deep Sea Vision stated that the expedition, which started its mission in Kiribati last September, may be close to solving the mystery of the disappearance of Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan while circumnavigating the world with the Airplane. “A talented group of marine archaeologists and marine robotics experts have uncovered images that may have answered the greatest mystery of the modern age – the disappearance of Amelia Earhart,” the company said in a statement on the social network on Tuesday. said. Sonar images taken at a depth of approximately 4,500 meters near Howland Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. What it looks like aeroplane at the bottom of the sea.
The company stated that a team of 15 crew members on a ship searched 5,200 square miles (more than 13,400 square kilometers) of the seabed with the Kongsberg Discovery Hugin 6000 unmanned underwater vehicle, the most advanced in its class.
Some critics pointed out that The device in the images does not look like the Lockheed Model 10-E Electra Earhart and Noonan flew to circumnavigate the world. However, Deep Sea Vision CEO Tony Romeo explained to the Australian ABC channel: Images are distorted due to sonar and said the next step was to photograph the remains to confirm it was Lockheed.
In the past, other expeditions had failed to locate Earhart’s plane at various locations in the Pacific, including near Nikumaroro Atoll.
Born in Atchison (United States) in 1897, Earhart was an author and pioneer who achieved several aviation achievements, including becoming the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean. On June 1, 1937, he and Noonan boarded the Lockheed Electra and left Miami on their second attempt to circumnavigate the world, managing to cover three-thirds (about 35,000 kilometers) of their route through Latin America, Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. To Lae in New Guinea, which is now in Papua New Guinea. From there they departed for Howland Island in the mid-Pacific on July 2, but the plane disappeared after traveling approximately 1,300 kilometers. The mystery remains unsolved to this day, amid numerous theories as to where the plane might have disappeared and whether it was even captured by Japanese soldiers.