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Latest News: An Exploration Team Believes It Found Amelia Earhart’s Missing Plane

Is the 86-year mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance close to being solved?

A marine explorer and his team believe they have found her long-lost airplane.

Deep Sea Vision, a marine robotics company led by private pilot Tony Romeo, released a sonar image January 29 depicting a shape similar to the contours of a Lockheed 10-E Electra plane—the same craft Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan were flying when they vanished over the Pacific Ocean in July 1937.

The discovery, the exact location of which Deep Sea Vision is keeping a secret, was part of a 90-day search spanning roughly 5,200 square miles of ocean floor. Authorities are working to validate the group’s findings.

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Romeo believes the image, taken about 100 miles from Howland Island, supports the “Date Line Theory” surrounding Earhart’s disappearance.

This posits that navigator Noonan miscalculated the