The disappearance of Amelia Earhart’s plane over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 is one of the world’s enduring mysteries. Now, a pilot and explorer says he believes he’s found the plane halfway between Hawaii and Australia. NBC News’ Emilie Ikeda reports.
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I’m disappointed at how much press this is getting. Once upon a time, not that long ago, such a claim would have been on page 4 of any national newspaper, and not make a single broadcast news program. The area where they searched is well known to have downed aircraft from many eras, and the sonar image shows wings that aren’t even remotely like that of the Electra model.
This is a big assumption based on some rough imaging.
Man if this is the plane, fricken incredible
Location maybe but not the mystery I’ll report your a ss
Pray its her, I have always wanted to know what happened to her.
Now this is the kind of news that I’m interested in hearing! More of this and maybe I could begin to watch the news more often
That would be insane if its confirmed to be the lost plane! That would be the biggest discovery of this century (so far) for sure!
It can’t be Earhart. We know she was spirited away to a planet in the Delta Quadrant.
Wait! Let me get my X-Box controller.
Can’t be her plane. The wings are swept back. There were two navy weather planes that crashed in the 1950’s, they had swept wings.
I personally believe it to be a B24D.
I thought the shape looked more like an F-86 or Mig 15.
There is an old WWII fighter pilot Harold in Delta, Colorado who says she was shot down by the Japanese military before WWII and crashed onto an island where parts of the wreckage were last seen cerca 1944 by Harold and other bomber escorts. Harold is still alive, not hard to find in Delta. 96 and still drives I hear.
:53 deeper than titanic, yall better send robots so no more humans pop under the sea
Her plane did not have swept back wings as shown in that image; however, they could well have been damaged and bent backwards at their connection with the fuselage. And operating an ROV would be the best way to find out for sure.
The two mysteries I really want solved in my lifetime is seeing Amelia Earharts plane be found and hoping one day someone identifies who DB Cooper actually was. Those two cases will forever fascinate me. I really hope this is her plane.
Part of me wants to know who DB cooper was the other wants him to get away with it
Anyone can say they found her plane and can’t show clear physical proof. (Dont assume urself that u have found her plane and its not.. 😂 your just seeking attention). But her legacy lives on.
Why do they never mention the fact that a man was with her for all of their flights and the last one too. Just because she was the first woman…
Justice for Fred Noonan!
Can they really already rule out a WWII aircraft?
Exactly my thoughts.
Indeed, someday we’ll know. And looks like that day is drawing close.
Beards are so trendy
Amelia was a bush pilot…scissor maneuver was her specialty.
Every two years we get another incarnation of this story. What’s next? Let me guess . . . We’ve found D.B. Cooper or is the Zodiac? Have we solved the Black Dahlia? Report it when it’s a story, not another publicity stunt.
I hope she is still alive
explorer dude has an epic beard.
About time if it’s really her plane
Another psyop. You would think after the Titanic sub last year, they’d go with a different, less conspicuous plan.
I personally think she died. It’s highly unlikely she’s still alive, but would be amazing if some how she was!
Who said she was still alive? I’ve never heard anyone claim that, ever.
Coconut crabs ate her.
Don’t let oceangate hear about this
Now let’s send this guy and his crew to find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Maybe they can solve that mystery once and for all as well.
Her plane has straight wings not swept back
I thought there was wreckage of what was thought to be her plane found on an island a couple of years ago.
RIP Amelia Earhart
We should get OceanGate on this, maybe send down a few billionaires to check it out, make sure it’s legit
I think she’s still dead though
Halfway between Australia and Hawaii? What about the literal hundreds, if not thousands of Japanese and American aircraft that went down in that wide area?
I need answers 😭
That isn’t aviations greatest mystery, Malaysian flight MH370 is. See if they can find that.
Why was the value of equipment used mentioned? 46 sec…..MULTI MILLION DOLLAR!!…. I think that was unnecessary to point that out……..plus,,,PEOPLE SEE WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE…( remember the ” FACE ” image on mars some years back )
……and that guys beard looks fake too ,just saying..
Deeper than the titanic? I know a lil submarine company with playstation controllers that’d be interested…
Amelia was a man.
WOW w w w w )))) ,..NOW TODAY I HAD WATCH THE #AMELIA BY HILLARY SWANG & RICHARD GERE ON THE NET-TV OW w w w w w !?!
James Cameron would probably be more than happy to go down and take pictures
it really is a great mystery. why did they let her fly without a male copilot?
OceanGate has joined the chat.
She was captured by the Japanese and the plane was recovered by them.
Why devote time, money and resources to find a plane that went down 87 years ago ?
I heard she was on her period when she left and got in an argument with the instrumentation advisor because he was trying to delay her departure cause he wanted to do additional calibrating.
She’s already been found. She wore leather shoes w “Cats paw” brand heels commonly used in shoe repair shops her remains were found and her shoes were identified by cross referencing the repair sticker still stuck inside of her shoe w a number on it from the shoe repair shop she had her shoes repaired at. She was the only known female to have flown in the pacific wearing a woman’s size shoe and it was her size too along w testimony from her cobbler that he had no doupt it was her shoes. And due to her fame he took special care of her shoes when she came in to have them repaired along w other identification she has been found already. This is total bs.
Her navigator was a drunk.
Not the best pilot.
I’d rather not know.
There is a plane down there! Then who’s it is if not her’s?!🤔
No other planes in that area? I think there is a substantially higher probability it is a bomber or even P38 that got lost flying a mission in WW2.
Looks more like one of the enormous battleship/aircraft carrier ANCHORS from WWII.
Captain Kathryn Janeway found her in the Delta quadrant. 😊
😂😂😂
Who cares
It’s every year someone sees a plane in the ocean and it’s automatically Amelia’s plane
Probably a drug dealers plane
Every couple of years someone gets a few days of fame when they “find” Amelia’s plane.
romeo o romeo where art thou romeo 😍😍😍😍😍
Think, you dorks… think. They THINK they found it.
Ever notice how the “experts” are always quick to shoot things down like this. I get skepticism and fact finding…but it always feels like sour grapes bc someone outside their field discovered something.
They found the tail of her aircraft off Nikku Moroto island 6 years ago. Then they found her personal gear on the beach near an ancient campsite in the middle of shredded bones. Because it Has the highest concentration of coconut crabs anywhere on the planet they caught her and ate her.
You are a news organization how did you not hear about this already? And what are you believing this liar for?
Debunked was confirmed to be the corpse of a man that died 4 years prior to her disappearance.
Could be another plane perhaps from WW2
Interesting
Wow incredible news! Her family maybe finally be able to lay her to rest. A realAmerican hero!
Bring Amelia home
Ross is jumping for the excitement rn
Breaking news: My dog was watching the K. C Chiefs game. When it ended and they showed Taylor whoever and what’s his name hugging,he threw up.
They runing together to a parasidiac island. End of history.
That could literally be anything down there. That is not proof and this is not news. They should have sent a drone down first to prove it and then gone public. Tired of people claiming they know Emilia Earhart’s fate that wasn’t true. WASTE OF OUR TIME.
Thats… What theyre going to do.
How about M/S Hans Hedtoft ? https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/M/S_Hans_Hedtoft
We already know the government knows what happened to her. There are pictures of them captured by the Japanese in the attols Islands. She was spying for the US. The story is known.
It was a great idea to fly there during the beginning of WWII.
I hope this guy contacts James Cameron for this one.
If something inspires you go do it only if you have daddy’s money, you bubble brain
Come on now, everyone knows she was eaten by coconut crabs
Oh my god to voice of this reporter.so irritating
She survived also nope. Theres a place with the plane tucked away hidden
Now that’s news!
Did nobody tell her that her plane wouldn’t make it across the Pacific on one tank of gas?????
Didn’t TIGHAR already do this?
Their evidence was over the top on what happened.
Get this my mom has always had a thing for the Challenger.Titanic and Amelia and she is almost 50 The anniversary just passed the titanic thing that happened and now this 🤯mom I hope this finally answers ur answers too.😁😭❤️✌️🙏
My mom is almost 50 and these things in her era has always fascinated her lets hope mom 😲❤️✌️🙏
she was in the sea diving for muffs
Every 5.8 years someone “finds’ either her bones or the plane.
It would be incredible if they found her and her co pilot’s body
her husband bought her the plane
Imagine we find her plane before mh370
Aint no globe
Over and over through the years people are so sure they have solved this mystery This one sounds promising yet “I won’t be holding my breath” just like for all the previous claims lol
All I saw is a blob on a sonar screen that is vaguely reminiscent of an airplane shape.
It really is barely good enough to convince someone that it’s a plane.
I mean… look at the sonar picture at 0:48….. I can imagine a dozen airplanes from all those blobs.
And, even if it is an airplane, Earhart’s plane isn’t the only one ever to be lost over the ocean.
But, bring on the cameras and the 15 minutes of fame!
People have been making this claim for over 80 years.
Watch star trek voyager episode ‘the 37s’ . Mystery solved!
No voyager was wrong (star trek)
16,000 feet down? umm NO