A sonar image that shows a 22-foot long object about 600
feet below the Pacific Ocean may be the remains of the Amelia Earhart’s plane.
The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery took
the photo on July 15, 2012 during an expedition.
Executive director Richard
Gillespie for TIGHAR says that it was someone online who noticed the object in
the image posted.
Earhart and her aviator, Fred Noonan, went missing on July
2, 1937 near an island in the western Pacific Ocean.
Gillespie gave more details on Amelia’s disappearance:
She landed the plane safely on a reef off Nikularoro
Island. The wreckage washed into the ocean with the high tide and broke up in
the surf. There is archaeological evidence on that island that we
believe indicates that Earhart was marooned there until her death several days
later.
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