Solving the Mystery: Explorer Claims Discovery of Amelia Earhart's Missing Plane An ocean explorer believes he has cracked aviation's greatest mystery by finding the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's missing plane. The American aviator disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 during her attempt to be the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. Deep-Sea Quest for Answers Tony Romeo, a former US Air Force intelligence officer, funded an $11 million deep-sea search for Earhart's plane. His company, Deep Sea Vision, employed an unmanned submersible with sonar technology to scan 5,200 square miles of the ocean floor in the suspected crash area. The Discovery Unveiled Reviewing data from the research voyage, the team uncovered a sonar image of a blurry, plane-like shape 5,000m beneath the Pacific. Located about 100 miles from Howland Island, the image is believed to depict Earhart's Lockheed 10-E Electra. Exploring the Evidence While posting the image on Instagram, Romeo e...