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Deep Sea Vision claims to have discovered a plane in the ocean that matches the size of the Lockheed Electra, the twin-engine monoplane that American aviator Emilia Earhart used to sail around the world more than 85 years ago before mysteriously disappearing.

Deep Sea Vision, which specializes in underwater exploration, says it used sonar to capture images of the plane during a 90-day expedition last year — 4.5 km below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

To confirm the hypothesis, the company plans to return to the discovery site for further research, says Deep Sea Vision founder and former US Air Force intelligence officer Tony Romeo. At the same time, identifying a find and moving it can take years.

The 16-member Deep Sea Vision team set sail from the island of Kiribati, about 2,000 km south of Hawaii, in September. In three months, they surveyed about 13,000 square meters. km the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, using an autonomous underwater vehicle called Hugin 6000, which can look at depths of almost 6 km.

The expedition analyzed the data and captured an image of the object with “contours that reflect the unique twin tails and scale of the legendary Earhart plane.”

“The location of Earhart, her navigator and her plane remains one of the great mysteries of our time,” said Mindy Love Pendergraft, executive director of the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum.

Amelia Earhart is an American aviator and one of the first female aviators, who sought to travel around the world by the longest route, keeping as close as possible to the equator.

In March 1937, after receiving a twin-engine Lockheed Electra monoplane for her birthday, Earhart made her first attempt at a trip, which immediately failed because the landing gear could not support the weight of the overfueled aircraft. After the overhaul, which took 2 months, the plane did start – the Earhart company was formed by navigator Fred Noonan.

By the beginning of July, the crew successfully covered 80% of the route – across the Atlantic, equatorial Africa, Arabia, India and Southeast Asia (some of the 28 stages of the flight were officially registered as world records). On July 2, Amelia and Fred left Lae, a town on the coast of Papua New Guinea, and headed for the small island of Howland, located in the central part of the Pacific Ocean, where an airstrip was specially built by order of President Roosevelt.

Officials and the press were waiting for the plane, and near the coast there was a patrol ship of the coast guard “Itasca”, which periodically maintained radio communication with the crew, which was already characterized by instability at that time. The last message received from Earhart read:

“Our course is 157-337… I repeat… I repeat… We are moving along the north-south line…”.

Judging by the strength of the radio signals, the plane was supposed to appear over Howland any minute, but it was never seen.

Tens of years of searching have still not brought a final result. Some have suggested that the plane ran out of fuel and sank in the Pacific Ocean, others say it made an emergency landing on a remote island, where a skeleton similar to Earhart’s physique was later found.

Solving Earhart’s fatal flight was Romeo’s (who grew up in a family of pilots) first goal when he founded Deep Sea Vision in 2022. He and his team based their search strategy on the “date boundary theory,” which some researchers claim explains Earhart’s disappearance.

The theory is that when Amelia and Noonan crossed the International Date Line, the navigator miscalculated, sending them about 60 nautical miles off course.

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