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The search for the plane Amelia Earhartthe pilot who tried to go around the world, It started in 1937After his disappearance. The last time she was known alive, Earhart was flying over the Pacific Ocean accompanied by Fred Noonan, both aboard the Lockheed Electra 10E. The mystery of what happened to them was never solved. Many have since embarked on expeditions in search of Amelia Earthart’s plane, and all have failed.
However, a former United States Air Force officer named Tony Romero, he thinks he has found the planesunk at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, more than 5,000 meters below the surface and about 160 kilometers from Howland Island.
The expedition of the company Deep Sea Visionof which Romero is CEO, has cost more than 13 million dollars, has lasted more than 100 days and has searched in more than 13,400 kilometers of water, in the region where the disappearance occurred, using sonar technology. Experts, however, warn that it is still too early to know if it is indeed Amelia Earthart’s plane.
Could Amelia Earhart survive her accident?
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The only thing we have at the moment are some images obtained by sonar, in which a fuzzy airplane-like mass. Romeo defends that the size of the figure seems to correspond to that of Earhart’s Lockheed Electra 10-E and that it seems to distinguish two vertical stabilizers in the tail, a distinctive feature of the plane.
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Sonar images with which the Deep Sea Vision team announced that they had found what “looked like” Amelia’s plane.
Deep Sea Vision via Twitter
Romeo believes that Earhart landed the plane on the surface of the Pacific after running out of fuel and that it subsequently sank, which would have allowed the hulk to survive. Likewise, Romero himself confesses that they still need to carry out checks to confirm their findingso they plan to return to the place.
Furthermore, the former officer has stated that if it is Earhart’s plane, they hope to be able to surface and restore it; and that he would be very excited to help close that chapter, bring Amelia home.
Besides, some experts have expressed their reluctance that the mass found is, in fact, Earhart’s plane. Some believe the images are too blurry to differentiate what they have found; and others, that the proportion and distribution of the object do not correspond to those of the Lockheed Electra 10-E.
Why is Amelia Earhart important?
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Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), waving, sitting outside the cockpit on top of an autogyro, in Los Angeles.
Alamy Stock Photo / Cordon Press
Earhart was a pioneer of aviation, born on July 24, 1898 in Atchison, Kansas. During World War I, Amelia volunteered to care for wounded pilots and decided that she would learn to fly. And so she did it, against the wishes of his family and under the tutelage of another pioneer in the world of aviation, Neta Snook.
On December 28, 1920 he made his first ascent; a ten-minute flight in the company of pilot Frank Hawks. Twelve years later, she became the first woman to fly over the Atlantic, alone and non-stop. At that time, Earhart was already a celebrity and took advantage of his fame to vindicate the figure of women in the sector.
Yours with phrases like: “Women should try to do things just as men have done them. And when they fail, their failure should be nothing more than a challenge to others” or “I wasn’t brave, I just didn’t have time to be scared.” .
I wasn’t brave, I just didn’t have time to be scared
Then, in 1935, he flew over Hawaii to California -traveled greater than the distance between Europe and the United States-, and became the first person to have completed this flight. That same year, she set a time record on a flight Mexico to New York: 14 hours and non-stop.
In 1937 he began his last adventure: the trip around the world that he could not complete. Her disappearance was followed by weeks of intense searching until finally, the US Navy concluded that both Amelia Earhart, and her partner Fred Noonan, had died in an accident in the ocean.