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2 ocean technology companies are competing in a multimillion-dollar race to find the wreck of Amelia Earhart. Someone says he might be close to the finish line.

Amelia Earhart stands in front of her biplane named ‘Friendship’ in Newfoundland on June 14, 1928.Getty Images Last month, Deep Sea Vision said its latest sonar scans could show Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane. Nauticos, a rival ocean technology company, argues that DSV’s scans probably do not show the mysterious debris. Both companies have invested millions… Read More »

Sonar image shows an anomaly that could be Amelia Earhart’s plane

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, Sign up for free here. One of the greatest enduring mysteries is the fate of beloved pilot Amelia Earhart. Nearly 87 years after famed aviator and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while… Read More »

Has the mystery of Amelia Earhart been solved? Underwater drone captures grainy image of ‘aircraft’

A state-of-the-art underwater drone may have solved one of the most enduring mysteries of the last 100 years: What happened to record-breaking aviator Amelia Earhart when her plane disappeared during a world tour in 1937? Numerous expeditions yielded no results, only confirming that no trace of his twin-tailed monoplane remained on the ocean floor. But… Read More »

A grainy sonar image reignites excitement and doubt about Earhart’s final flight

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – A grainy sonar image recorded by a private pilot has reignited interest in one of the most compelling mysteries of the past century: What happened? Amelia Earhart When his plane disappeared during a world tour in 1937? Numerous expeditions yielded no results, only confirming that no trace of his twin-tailed monoplane… Read More »

A grainy sonar image reignites excitement and doubt about Earhart’s final flight

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – A grainy sonar image recorded by a private pilot has reignited interest in one of the last century’s most compelling mysteries: What happened to Amelia Earhart, whose plane disappeared during a world tour in 1937? Numerous expeditions yielded no results, only confirming that no trace of his twin-tailed monoplane remained on… Read More »

Amelia Earhart’s plane ‘found’ deep in the Pacific after $11 million search

Earhart’s plane disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during her attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world in 1937 – Bettmann An ocean explorer claims to have solved aviation’s biggest mystery by finding the wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s missing plane. The American aviator’s plane disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 during… Read More »

The disappearance of Amelia Earhart is a decades-old mystery. Sonar images shed new light on the case

A sonar image taken by Deep Sea Vision, an underwater scanning company, that may show the remains of Amelia Earhart’s missing Lockheed 10-E Electra plane in the Pacific Ocean (Deep Sea Vision). Amelia Earhart made her last airborne radio call at 8:43 a.m. local time, about an hour after she warned the Coast Guard cutter… Read More »

A former US Air Force officer spent $11 million searching for Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane – and may have found it

Sitting atop the cockpit of the twin-engine, all-metal Lockheed-Elecktra monoplane, Amelia Earhart is pictured next to a sonar image of what investigators believe may be the wreckage of her ill-fated flight.Getty Images / Deep Sea Vision Tony Romeo believes he has found Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane. Romeo told BI he captured an image of an… Read More »