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Robotics Firm Confident Amelia Earhart’s Plane Found

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A South Carolina marine robotics company seems pretty sure it’s found Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan’s Lockheed Electra in an area not previously searched west of their destination of Howland Island. Earhart and Noonan vanished in 1937 while trying to fly across the Pacific. Late Monday, Deep Sea Vision released side scan sonar images of an object on the ocean floor about the same size and shape of the aircraft. The company had been searching a 5,200-square-mile area for almost three months when… (www.avweb.com) More...

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sparkie624
sparkie624 11
Interesting Article... I hope it comes to be a good findings and are able to recover the plane, or atleast get some underwater pics and video!
DARRELLBENNER
DARRELL BENNER 8
Maybe they can find Jimmy Hofa next?
lynx318
lynx318 2
Meh, he got sent to recyclers in China in the boot of a crushed car...(☉‿⚆)
vaclavkoranda
Vaclav Koranda 7
Ok, and now the MH370 please.
sparkie624
sparkie624 1
TimDyck
Tim Dyck 6
Maybe hire this outfit to find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
thenotoriousrob
rob strong 9
Cue the garage-made submersibles to go check it out.
Bayouflier
Bayouflier 10
I give them credit. Takes a lotta balls to be "confident"' based on that sonar image.
cmuncy
Chris Muncy 6
Morning Sam! This would be such a HUGE find. I hope it leads to a positive result.
fdb912
Frank Barrett 3
Con: How many warplanes were shot down in that area during WW II?

Pro: As for the swept-back wing image, the wings could have deformed that way during ditching.
RDLoven
Richard Loven 3
You never know.
hangar14
Rick D 5
I hope not. The mystery is part of aviation history and not knowing allows for fun speculation and wild conspiracy theories.
thetruefalcon
True Falcon 3
Aliens. Nope, it's never aliens ... except for when it is !!
TimDyck
Tim Dyck 1
I hate those aliens with all their probing with their clod little hands…
lynx318
lynx318 3
They gonna come from at least Proxima Centauri 'b' at 4.2light years to play with your keister? :D
lynx318
lynx318 1
(>ლ) Gawd (chuckles merrily)

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AirplaneC
C J 3
...What?
sparkie624
sparkie624 3
UGH... Where did that comment come from!
lynx318
lynx318 4
Someone having a beef with the foil-hatter brigade is all.
bentwing60
bentwing60 5
Go Tighar! Will Amelia come home with Gilligan and will Noonan still be Pickled?
bigginjp
Joseph Biggin 2
This was an expedition by Deep Sea Vision of Charleston, SC.
linbb
linbb 0
That outfit has bilked millions out of people with supposed finds with NO results at all. Its been a few years you must be new to this deal or not read much Tighar has been in aviation news for years not in a good way.
rayzeeman
Ray Zimmermann 5
Isn't there a story about every five years or so about how they've found Amelia Earhart's plane?
klatu2u
Eugene Ruta 3
There is even a fuzzy picture supposedly showing Earhart and Noonan be held prisoner by Jap guards on a wooden dock
lynx318
lynx318 3
And the Electra supposedly floating in the background still with the towline to a IJN ship.
sparkie624
sparkie624 2
Haven't been counting.. But I doubt you are far off... Got to keep the story alive so that we see advertisements and they make money as a result of us having to look at stuff that we do not usually want to see and many times ignore!

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6686L
thank you for your version of events. You forgot to add how President Roosevelt snuck out of the White House, broke into a nearby RadioShack, stole a radio, and hired the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor so he could get brownie-points for the next election.....what....stupid comments de-bunking this outstanding theory....just because Roosevelt did not speak Japanese, there was no RadioShack then, and FDR wouldn't have a clue how to operate a de-coder is no reason to doubt these wonderful conspiracy-posters...!
TimDyck
Tim Dyck 3
I’m not one of those conspiracy guys but I liked yours. Thanks for the laugh and have a great day.
lynx318
lynx318 2
Of course it wasn't Radio Shack .... it was Allied Radio, part of the RS Group of London, bought in 1970 by Tandy. ;)
lynx318
lynx318 2
Picture link courtesy BBC with highlights
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/640/cpsprodpb/33BB/production/_96834231_bbcearhartedit.jpg
DARRELLBENNER
DARRELL BENNER 2
The sonar image looks like an ME-262!
That would be even more exciting.
thetruefalcon
True Falcon 2
A great circle route from Germany to Howland Island is 15,000 km, crossing very close to the North Pole. Can an ME-262 do that?
jfmitch1716
Jim Mitchell 2
it could with several thousand fuel bags attached.......lol
DARRELLBENNER
DARRELL BENNER 1
Don't go spoiling a good theory with facts.
The Image is actually closer to an F-86 or Mig-15 but I'm sure you can come up with a way to prove they never operated in that part of the world?
ghstark
Greg S 4
Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it.
linbb
linbb -3
See you have seen this group grabbing for money looking for this airplane for years. And gee no results suddenly after quite a few years of silence from them here we go again.
evansnana
Candace Turner 1
Interesting!
wd73383
WD Rseven 1
Ho hum
flybd5juan
Juan Jimenez 1
LOL! People can be so clueless about things like this. Look at the wing sweep of what they found at the bottom of the ocean. That is NOT a Lockheed Electra!
zuluzuluzulu
zuluzuluzulu 7
Good observation! But they did run out of fuel and hit the water. Could be the sweep is the result of broken wings. The tail does look promising.
lynx318
lynx318 3
My thoughts exactly.
sparkie624
sparkie624 2
Keep in mind that a picture that is taken through water is distorted and one from Radar is even more so because of reflections.

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sparkie624
sparkie624 2
Yes and No.. Lockheed had 2 Electra Models that I know of. The L-188 (most common/well known) had a single Tail ( https://barrieaircraft.com/images/lockheed-l-188-electra-01.jpg ) and the Lockheed Electra 10E (Twin Tail) had 2 ( https://duckduckgo.com/?q=image+lockheed+electra&atb=v340-1&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ecured.cu%2Fimages%2F3%2F3d%2FTWALE12A.jpg )

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lynx318
lynx318 3
Still doesn't hurt to rover sub identify it, might clear up some other mystery.

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