News - Wreckage of plane of Amelia Earhart, first woman to fly across Atlantic, found?

US ocean exploration company Deep Sea Vision claims to have found the aircraft of American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart, who famously disappeared back in 1937 while trying to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the globe, Futurism reported. If confirmed, the discovery could be a huge development in one of aviation's greatest mysteries. With the help of an underwater drone equipped with a high-tech radar and a 16-member crew, Deep Sea Vision claims to have come across an object that closely resembles Earhart's Lockheed Electra aircraft roughly 16,000 feet below the surface and 100 miles off Howland Island, a location where the two were supposed to land to refuel. "All that combined, you'd be hard-pressed to convince me that this is not an airplane and not Amelia's plane," Deep Sea Vision founder Tony Romeo told NPR. The Kansa-born pilot was the first female aviator to cross the Atlantic by herself, among many other aviation records. But during her epic 1937 journey, she and navigator Fred Noonan mysteriously disappeared while flying over the central Pacific Ocean, without leaving a trace. Neither their bodies nor their plane have been recovered, despite many attempts over the decades. Her disappearance prompted a huge number of conspiracy theories.