It looks as though Ms. Earhart's plane, in deep warm water about 100 miles shy of her intended refueling stop. . . has been located. Here's NPR on it all, as of this morning:
. . .The shape of the object in the sonar images closely resembles Earhart's aircraft, a Lockheed Electra, both in size and tail. Deep Sea Vision founder, Tony Romeo, said he was optimistic in what they found.
"All that combined, you'd be hard-pressed to convince me that this is not an airplane and not Amelia's plane," he said.
The Deep Sea Vision team plans to investigate the area where the images were taken some time this year, Romeo added.
Earhart and Noonan vanished in 1937 while on a quest to circumnavigate the globe. The trip would have made Earhart the first female pilot to fly around the world. . . .
The prospect of Earhart's plane lodged in the ocean floor backs up the popular theory that the aircraft ran out of fuel and sank into the water. But others have suggested that she and Noonan landed on an island and starved to death.
Some believe the two crashed and were taken by Japanese forces, who were expanding their presence in the region leading up to World War II. . . .
Now you know and she can rest in peace, in all likelihood. Regular readers will recall that we had covered this mystery last summer, here.
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