Everything we know about the potential discovery Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane
by Joe Sommerlad
Jan 29, 2024
3 minutes
“On 2 July 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan took off from Papua New Guinea, nearing the end of their record-setting journey around the world never to be seen again. Until today.”
“Deep Sea Vision found what appears to be Earhart’s Lockheed 10-E Electra.”
That message was posted on Instagram by the South Carolina-based underwater exploration company on 27 January alongside a series of yellow sonar photographs of a distinctly plane-shaped object lying 16,000 feet below the waves on the floor of the Pacific Ocean.
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