Have researchers actually found Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane? | BBC News

The mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart’s plane when it went missing 87 years ago has baffled researchers for decades.

But one team believes they may have just found a clue.

Recent sonar imaging, which maps the ocean floor using sound waves, has led the researchers to what they claim is a small aircraft around 4,877m below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.

However, some experts aren't convinced this discovery actually is the missing plane.

The Lockheed 10-E Electra went missing near Howland Island in the north Pacific while Earhart and her copilot Fred Noonan were attempting to fly around the world.

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[RichardJones-etwe]

It's amazing to think people were famous for actually breaking records and having talent..

[askosefamerve]

I hope she's found! She deserves the peace and success she earned.

[hunterscott]

Not that im not hopeful, but yall are aware of the amount of planes littering the floor of the Pacific Ocean? WW2 saw heavy air fighting all across that region.

[aroundandround]

Nobody remembers the poor guy who also went down with her.

[jmantime]

The plane in the sonar image clearly has " Swept Wings ", it might be an F-86 Sabre or MIG-17 just going by the shape. Also amelia's plane had 2x large engines and this sonar doesn't.

[Bonzeaux_Bleuxgrene]

0:42 "They headed West."
While showing a map of them heading East.
🤦🏻‍♂️

[asadraja]

My point of view is there should be no discussion of this before conclusive pics of it. These kinds of discoveries have happened many times before. Why can't they wait until there are better images.

I always feel like this is done to drum up interest and attract investors. And conclusive pics may very well prove it is not what it is being claimed to be, there wouldn't be any interest, right? No interviews, no interest from investors.

This pic could be anything really. And besides, if it is an aircraft, it clearly has swept wings. Have you seen an electra she was flying? It has straight wings, like a plus sign.

A cursory look will tell u that. But everyone keeps peddling this BS

[kendexter]

A lot of airplanes was lost in navigation during WW2 . let`s hope this one is the one, enclosure to this mystery would be great

[larrywilliams]

Why do you have to block the end of the video with another video banner?

[rklammer]

0:42 is that west is it? Guess journalists don't need to know how to use a compass.

[Markus_Andrew]

16, 000 feet is a pretty forbidding depth. That's about 4, 000 feet deeper than the Titanic wreckage. It's a very vague image though, it could be just about anything.

[seratonin]

I'm excited every time another clue leads us to answers in the disappearance of Amelia and Fred.

[RaccoonHenry]

"they headed west"
...are we sure about that?
(even the graphic clearly shows the route headed east...)

[cosmicinsane]

Most likely not, but hey the plane has to be somewhere. It’s probably worth a look with a underwater vehicle, if someone is willing to foot the bill.

[deealex]

its always fascinating these old cases that havent been solved... i always wonder what happened to these people who were lost in time.

[lilyabramowitz]

She is also the first person to fly to Hawaii and back solo

[HolySoliDeoGloria]

0:44 headed west?!? That's an easterly circumnavigation. What context did I miss?

[thegreyarea-WPP]

I know a lot of people are desperate to believe this is her aircraft, but I personally don’t for a few reasons. Firstly, the wing sweep. Secondly, there are no engine nacelles on either wing. Thirdly, it looks very much like an F-86 Sabre. If it was the Lockheed Electra, why would the rear section of each wing have disappeared. For sure the flaps and ailerons could have snapped off, but there would be only a small section of each wing missing. Instead we have a wing sweep that certainly fits that of the F-86.

I’ve seen comments that no other aircraft was known to go down in this area, but I have not been able to pinpoint exactly where it is that the image was taken in order to verify that. Added to that, there are many aircraft whose wreckage remains undiscovered and many more whose wreckage has been discovered in a place far from there they were supposed to have been operating. Given that the depth of this wreckage is known, it should be possible to to calculate the wing span accurately, but none of the reports I have seen so far give any calculations on that so I’m basing my guess hypothesis on the silhouette of an aircraft I feel fits that image far more accurately.

[ilovelimpfries]

And yet we still cant find a missing 777.

[okrajoe]

I remain skeptical, but definitely worth another visit to the sonar anomaly site.