By using this site, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Accept

News Junction

Notification Show More
Font ResizerAa
  • Home
  • World News
    World NewsShow More
    Stock market news today: live updates
    Stock market news today: live updates
    May 20, 2025
    Canada, U.K., France warn Israel of ‘concrete action’ over military expansion – National
    Canada, U.K., France warn Israel of ‘concrete action’ over military expansion – National
    May 20, 2025
    My first thought when I heard Joe Biden’s news
    My first thought when I heard Joe Biden’s news
    May 19, 2025
    NH mom, two daughters share rare medical condition
    NH mom, two daughters share rare medical condition
    May 19, 2025
    Measles vaccines save millions of lives each year
    Measles vaccines save millions of lives each year
    May 19, 2025
  • Business
    BusinessShow More
    Ukraine blows up bridges to consolidate its positions in Russia
    Ukraine blows up bridges to consolidate its positions in Russia
    August 18, 2024
    Commentary: AI phones from Google and Apple will erode trust in everything
    Commentary: AI phones from Google and Apple will erode trust in everything
    August 18, 2024
    The most famous Indian Dishes – Insights Success
    The most famous Indian Dishes – Insights Success
    August 18, 2024
    Life on the road as a female long rides cyclist
    Life on the road as a female long rides cyclist
    August 18, 2024
    UK inflation rises to 2.2%
    UK inflation rises to 2.2%
    August 18, 2024
  • Cryptocurrency
    CryptocurrencyShow More
    Circle reportedly weighing sale to Coinbase or Ripple despite IPO plans
    Circle reportedly weighing sale to Coinbase or Ripple despite IPO plans
    May 20, 2025
    Lido DAO price revisits key support level: what next for LDO?
    Lido DAO price revisits key support level: what next for LDO?
    May 20, 2025
    Ripple Labs Deploys XRP Ledger to Boost Financial Inclusion and Income for Smallholder Agriculture in Colombia
    Ripple Labs Deploys XRP Ledger to Boost Financial Inclusion and Income for Smallholder Agriculture in Colombia
    May 20, 2025
    On-Chain Oscillator Shows Bitcoin Far From Cycle Peak – Can BTC Push Above ATH?
    On-Chain Oscillator Shows Bitcoin Far From Cycle Peak – Can BTC Push Above ATH?
    May 19, 2025
    Tornado Cash Dev Roman Storm’s Defense Team Wants to Know if DOJ Withheld Evidence
    Tornado Cash Dev Roman Storm’s Defense Team Wants to Know if DOJ Withheld Evidence
    May 19, 2025
  • Technology
    TechnologyShow More
    How to Improve Your Spotify Recommendations
    How to Improve Your Spotify Recommendations
    August 18, 2024
    X says it’s closing operations in Brazil
    X says it’s closing operations in Brazil
    August 18, 2024
    Supermoon set to rise: Top tips for amateur photographers | Science & Tech News
    Supermoon set to rise: Top tips for amateur photographers | Science & Tech News
    August 18, 2024
    Scientists Want to See Videos of Your Cat for a New Study
    Scientists Want to See Videos of Your Cat for a New Study
    August 18, 2024
    OpenAI’s new voice mode let me talk with my phone, not to it
    OpenAI’s new voice mode let me talk with my phone, not to it
    August 18, 2024
  • Entertainment
  • Sports News
  • People
  • Trend
Reading: An explorer believes he found Amelia Earhart’s plane. Experts aren’t convinced
Share
Font ResizerAa

News Junction

  • World News
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Trend
  • Entertainment
Search
  • Recent Headlines in Entertainment, World News, and Cryptocurrency – NewsJunction
  • World News
  • Business
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Technology
  • Entertainment
  • Sports News
  • People
  • Trend
Have an existing account? Sign In
Follow US
News Junction > Blog > World News > An explorer believes he found Amelia Earhart’s plane. Experts aren’t convinced
An explorer believes he found Amelia Earhart’s plane. Experts aren’t convinced
World News

An explorer believes he found Amelia Earhart’s plane. Experts aren’t convinced

Published February 2, 2024
Share
5 Min Read
SHARE

“The image is really exciting in the fact that it obviously shows an aircraft or what looks like an aircraft,” said Megan Lickliter-Mundon, an underwater archaeologist who has searched for sunken airplanes.

Model of the Lockheed Model 10 Electra that Amelia Earhart was flying during an attempt to make a flight around the world in 1937.Credit: AP

But to confirm that it is actually a plane, she said, researchers would have to take additional sonar images from different angles. Then they would have to use a remotely operated vehicle with a video camera to see if the plane has any serial numbers or markings that would identify it as Earhart’s.

After more than 80 years in the ocean, it would be surprising if the plane were as intact as it appears to be in the sonar image, Lickliter-Mundon said.

“But who knows?” she said. “Nothing is definitive until you have more information and a visual.”

Andrew Pietruszka, an underwater archaeologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, said the image, reported by The Wall Street Journal, could be “noise” in the sonar system or a geological feature on the ocean floor.

Loading

“There’s no way you could definitively say that’s even an aircraft,” said Pietruszka, who has searched for World War II-era planes. “To me, at best, you could say you have a promising target that might be an aircraft, and might be Amelia Earhart’s aircraft, at best.”

Piotr Bojakowski, an assistant professor of nautical archaeology at Texas A&M University, said he was “pretty sceptical” that it was Earhart’s long-lost Lockheed. He said it could be the wreck of a plane from World War II.

“There are a lot of air crashes around all those islands,” Bojakowski said. “Could it be American? Could it be Japanese? Could it be something else? Right now, all we know is it looks like a plane.”

Romeo said he planned to mount another expedition sometime in the future to take underwater video of the site, which he believes will confirm that it is Earhart’s plane, hopefully with its registration number, NR16020, still visible on the wing.

Loading

“I want the world to see it,” he said.

A former Air Force intelligence officer whose father was an airline pilot, Romeo, 43, said he has been fascinated with Earhart’s story since boyhood.

A pioneering aviator, she was the first woman to make a solo, nonstop flight across the United States, in 1932. She was also the first woman to complete a nonstop, solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, also in 1932. She was a writer, speaker and fashion designer.

To start Deep Sea Vision in 2022, Romeo said, he sold his real estate investments and bought a $9 million underwater drone capable of scanning the ocean floor. He said the business, based in Charleston, South Carolina, will search for other wrecks under private contract.

Earhart’s disappearance has inspired similar expeditions over the years, as well as outlandish theories that she was captured by Japanese operatives or returned to the United States and lived under a different name.

Susan Butler, an Earhart biographer, said she believed that Earhart and Noonan ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean off Howland Island.

“The only question is where the plane went down,” she said.

While the search might not be over yet, James Delgado, an underwater archaeologist based in Washington, D.C., said he commended Romeo for undertaking the expedition.

“I will always be in the corner of anybody that goes out and searches and seeks to find answers,” he said. “At this stage, it’s early. But if it were me, curiosity being what it is, I would want to go back and see what it is with cameras.”

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

Get a note directly from our foreign correspondents on what’s making headlines around the world. Sign up for the weekly What in the World newsletter here.

#explorer #believes #Amelia #Earharts #plane #Experts #arent #convinced

TAGGED:AmeliaArentbelievesconvincedEarhartsexpertsExplorerplane
Share This Article
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Whatsapp Whatsapp LinkedIn Email Copy Link Print
Share
What do you think?
Love0
Sad0
Happy0
Sleepy0
Angry0
Dead0
Wink0
Previous Article Base Titanium sales drop 22 percent on lower prices Base Titanium sales drop 22 percent on lower prices
Next Article I Tested a Next-Gen AI Assistant. It Will Blow You Away I Tested a Next-Gen AI Assistant. It Will Blow You Away
- Advertisement -

Latest Post

Circle reportedly weighing sale to Coinbase or Ripple despite IPO plans
Circle reportedly weighing sale to Coinbase or Ripple despite IPO plans
Cryptocurrency
Stock market news today: live updates
Stock market news today: live updates
World News
Lido DAO price revisits key support level: what next for LDO?
Lido DAO price revisits key support level: what next for LDO?
Cryptocurrency
Ripple Labs Deploys XRP Ledger to Boost Financial Inclusion and Income for Smallholder Agriculture in Colombia
Ripple Labs Deploys XRP Ledger to Boost Financial Inclusion and Income for Smallholder Agriculture in Colombia
Cryptocurrency
Canada, U.K., France warn Israel of ‘concrete action’ over military expansion – National
Canada, U.K., France warn Israel of ‘concrete action’ over military expansion – National
World News
On-Chain Oscillator Shows Bitcoin Far From Cycle Peak – Can BTC Push Above ATH?
On-Chain Oscillator Shows Bitcoin Far From Cycle Peak – Can BTC Push Above ATH?
Cryptocurrency
- Advertisement -

You Might Also Like

Ukraine reveals mn mortar shells fraud scheme — RT World News
World News

Ukraine reveals $40mn mortar shells fraud scheme — RT World News

January 29, 2024
Nikki Glaser makes her parents APOLOGIZE for their ‘gross’ comment about Julia Roberts and Travis Kelce at Eras concert
World News

Nikki Glaser makes her parents APOLOGIZE for their ‘gross’ comment about Julia Roberts and Travis Kelce at Eras concert

July 3, 2024
Tucker Carlson doesn’t need Russian protection – Kremlin — RT World News
World News

Tucker Carlson doesn’t need Russian protection – Kremlin — RT World News

February 8, 2024
Pilot steals helicopter, crashes into hotel after attending party in Australia – National
World News

Pilot steals helicopter, crashes into hotel after attending party in Australia – National

August 14, 2024

About Us

NEWS JUNCTION (NewsJunction.xyz) Your trusted destination for global news. Stay informed with our timely and accurate reporting on diverse topics, including politics, technology, science, entertainment, sports, and more. Count on us for unbiased and reliable updates at your fingertips.

Quick Link

  • About
  • Disclaimer
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Contact

Top Categories

  • World News
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Entertainment
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Sports News
  • Trend
  • People

Subscribe

Subscribe to our newsletter to get our newest articles instantly!

    © 2023 News Junction.
    • Blog
    • Advertise
    • Contact
    Welcome Back!

    Sign in to your account

    Username or Email Address
    Password

    Lost your password?